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Encyclopedia > Gotan Project
Gotan Project
Background information
Origin French flag Paris, France
Genre(s) Tango, Electronica
Years active 1999–present
Label(s) Ya Basta
Associated
acts
The Boyz from Brazil
Website http://www.gotanproject.com/
Members
Philippe Cohen Solal
Eduardo Makaroff
Christoph H. Müller

Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris, consisting of musicians Philippe Cohen Solal (French), Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine) and Christoph H. Müller (Swiss, former member of Touch El Arab). Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Tango music is traditionally played by an orquesta típica, a sextet which includes two violins, piano, doublebass, and two bandoneons. ... Electronica is a term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Touch El Arab was a pop/electronica group from Basel, Switzerland, formed by members Philippe Alioth, Christoph Müller and Stefan Hopmann. ...


They formed in 1999. Their first release was Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foraneo in 2000, followed by the album La Revancha del Tango in 2001. Their music is clearly tango, but also uses electronic elements such as samples, beats and breaks. Argentine Tango music is traditionally played by an orquesta tipica, which often includes violin, piano, guitar, flute, and especially bandoneon. ...

La Revencha del Tango
La Revencha del Tango
Lunatico album

Live material was also broadcast on Gilles Peterson's world music show Worldwide on BBC Radio 1 in May 2004. Philippe Cohen Solal has also released a DJ set: Inspiración Espiración - A Gotan Project DJ Set Selected & Mixed by Philippe Cohen Solal (2004). This album is a compilation of classic tangos from the likes of Anibal Troilo and Ástor Piazzolla and Gotan Project remixes. The album also includes a bonus CD with the track "La Cruz del Sur" - which was meant to be included on La Revancha del Tango, but didn't make the cut in 2001. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Gilles Peterson Gilles Peterson is an influential DJ and record-label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz and Talkin Loud he has been associated with the careers of countless well-known artists of the 1990s. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... The World in Plate Carrée Projection In English, world is rooted in a compound of the obsolete words were, man, and eld, age; thus, its oldest meaning is Age of Man. ... “Radio 1” redirects here. ... Aníbal Troilo was the bandoneon player who defined the instrument for his generation. ... Ástor Piazzolla with his bandoneon in 1971. ...


Before Gotan Project Müller and Cohen Solal formed a duo called Boyz from Brazil.


The song "Santa Maria (del Buen Ayre)" from the La Revancha del Tango album was featured as the music for the main dance sequence in the 2004 movie Shall We Dance?, with Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere. It was also featured in the tango sequence of "take the lead" in 2006. Their music has been featured in American television shows Nip/Tuck and Sex and the City, as well as the 2003 Swedish documentary on consumerism, Surplus. In 2004, they recorded a little-known Piazzolla piece with Brigitte Fontaine: Rue Saint-louis-en-l'île. In late 2006 the track "Epoca" from the La Revancha del Tango album was featured in a UK television advertisement for Boots, directed by David LaChapelle. Shall We Dance? is an American motion picture released in 2004. ... J. Lo redirects here. ... Richard Tiffany Gere[1] (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. ... Nip/Tuck is an American television drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. ... Sex and the City is a popular American cable television program. ... Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers is a 2003 Swedish documentary about consumerism and anti-consumerism, directed by Erik Gandini and Johan Söderberg. ... Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix, Finistère, in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. ... This article is about a former British company which has now merged to form Alliance Boots, as a result, information on this page may be out of date. ...


The name of the trio comes from a form of wordplay very common in Rioplatense Spanish's argot named vesre. This wordplay involves the reversal of syllables. Thus, the word Tango becomes Gotan, the name the trio have chosen for their project. Main urban centers of Rioplatense Spanish. ... Lunfardo was a colorful, slangy argot of the Spanish language which developed at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century in the lower classes in and around Buenos Aires. ... Vesre (reversing the order of syllables within a word) is one of the features of the Rioplatense Spanish. ...

Contents

Discography

  • 2000 Vuelvo Al Sur/El Capitalismo Foraneo
  • 2001 La Revancha del Tango
  • 2004 Inspiración Espiración
  • 2006 Lunático

Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Track listing La Cumparsita - 0:32 Cité Tango - 3:54 Tríptico (Peter Kruder Trip De Luxe) - 10:10 Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre) (Pepe Bradock Wider Remix) - 7:06 Round About Midnight - 7:09 Confianzas - 5:28 The Man (El Hombre Remix) - 7:12 Percusion (Part 1) - 4:14... Lunático is the third album by Gotan Project. ...

Videography

  • 2005 La Revancha del Tango Live

Other electronic tango artists

Bajofondo Tango Club is a South American music band consisting of seven musicians from Argentina and Uruguay. ... Tanghetto in a live performance (2005) Tanghetto is a musical group based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and one of the most important on the neo tango scene. ... Recognized as the fist electronic-archaeological tango band, Otros Aires mixes the first tangos and milongas records from the beginning of the last century (Gardel, Razzano, D`arienzo, etc. ... Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles Pedro Menendez de Aviles (born 1519 in Avilés, Spain, dead in Santander on September 17, 1574), was the first Spanish governor of Florida. ...

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  Results from FactBites:
 
The Gotan Project — Vive le Tango! by Richard Byrne - The Globalist > > Global Music (1263 words)
Gotan Project's album, "La revancha del tango," (Tango's Revenge) — a collaboration between French DJs Philippe Cohen-Salal and Christophe Mueller and a group of Argentinian musicians — may provide a hint about where tango will go in its second century.
The clearest signal that the Paris-based Gotan Project is picking up the tango gauntlet thrown down by Piazzolla is its version of "Vuelvo al Sur" (Return to the South) — one of the Argentine composer's best known and influential compositions.
Gotan Project's spark of intuition in finding the common link between classical music, Piazzolla's tango and Zappa's rock makes for truly inspiring and satisfying music.
Gotan Project @ Brixton Academy, London : gig review (481 words)
The eyecatching presence of singer Cristina Vilallonga centre stage, a vision in white, was offset against a backdrop of projected vintage footage of big bands and ballroom troubadours swinging, writing large Gotan Project's musical source material across the stage and their very attire.
Adding a rapper to a night of Gotan Project, even one harbouring this Londoner's quickfire vocal style and fearless stage presence, seemed strange at first, visually as well as musically.
But, as he roved around the stage as a ball of energy, with just one song he brought more passion to the set than Gotan Project, for all their undoubted effort and technical virtuosity, had managed all evening.
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