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- artist:Santiago Córdoba
- featured artist:Santos
- release year:2019
- style(s):Argentino, Contemporary
- country:Argentina
- formats:Audio File / Digital
- record posted by:Violentango
- label:Sounds And Colours
- publisher:Sounds And Colours
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After leaving Argentina in 2016, Santiago Córdoba has led a peripatetic life, living in Madrid, northern Italy and Beirut. It was in these places that he recorded his second solo album, En Otros Lugares (translating as “In Other Places” or “Elsewhere”), continuing his explorations into propellant psychedelic rock rhythms, Argentine folk music and electronic textures. Previously best known for his percussion work in revolutionary tango group Violentango, Santiago’s solo work sees him expand his arsenal, playing Spanish guitar and synths, as well as singing, for a result that has little to do with tango. En Otros Lugares is an ambitious album fuelled by life on the road and musical curiosity.
There are moments of peaceful folktronica, as on the vibrant Spanish guitar finger-picks and hand drums of “La Danza del Pañuelo” or the dreamy hypnotic buzz of “Corso”, but they are soon disturbed. Santiago is clearly a restless spirit, and on this second album he rarely eases off, any moment of minimal bliss soon enveloped by insistent drums, repetitive guitar patterns or electronic swells. These tendencies push the music, which has its heart clearly ensconced in the Argentine folk music of 1960s and 1970s, to a sound closer to Broken Social Scene’s dense indie rock, the propellant... more
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released February 15, 2019
Santiago Córdoba : Spanish guitar, synths, bombo leguero, percussion, hang drum, vocals, effects
Rodrigo Cursach: electric guitar, drums, programming
Recorded between June 2016 and January 2018 in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Madrid (Spain), Beirut (Lebanon) and Ferrara (Italy).
Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Cursach in DELTA UNO studio, March 2018, Buenos Aires.
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Written & Produced by Santiago Córdoba.