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Editorial Reviews:

People en Español
Although the Argentinean Gustavo Santaolalla has become famous in recent years for his film work, he is also one of the most important Latin music producers of the last two decades and has produced albums for Cafe Tacva, Juanes, Molotov, Dividido, and Julieta Venegas, among others. Now the musician makes a comeback as the brain behind Mar Dulce, the commendable second album from Bajofondo Tango Club. (Santaolalla is also a member of the group). As on its first album, this group mixes electronic music with tango, but this album is far from being a mere copy of its predecessor. For Mar Dulce's 17 songs, Santaolalla invited some of the most creative singers of the moment to contribute performances such as "El mareo" (Gustavo Cerati), "Fairly Right" (Elvis Costello), "Slippery Sidewalks" (Nelly Furtado), and "Pa' Bailar, siempre quiero mas" (Julieta Venegas). --Ernesto Sanchez (People en Espanol

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Aunque el argentino Gustavo Santaolalla se ha hecho famoso en los ultimos anos por su trabajo en el cine, ademas es uno de los productores de musica latina mas importantes de las ultimas dos decadas, ha producido discos para Cafe Tacva, Juanes, Molotov, Dividido y Julieta Venegas, entre otros. Ahora el musico regresa como el cerebro detras del segundo disco de Bajofondo Tango Club (grupo del cual ademas forma parte), Mar Dulce el cual es francamente muy recomendable. Tal como la primera produccion del grupo este disco mezcla la musica electronica con el tango, pero para nuestra suerte este album esta muy lejos de ser una copia del anterior. Mar Dulce contiene 17 canciones que no le permiten distraerse o aburrirse un segundo. Ademas Santaolalla invito a algunos de los cantantes mas creativos del momento para colaborar en temas como "El mareo" con Gustavo Cerati, "Fairly Right" con Elvis Costello, "Slippery Sidewalks" con Nelly Fustado o "Pa' Bailar, siempre quiero mas" con Julieta Venegas, entre otros. --Ernesto Sanchez (People en Espanol )

Album Description
Decca and Surco Records are proud to announce the new release of "Mar Dulce" (Sweet Sea) from Bajofondo, the Argentine-Uruguayan collective led by the two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning composer of Brokeback Mountain and Babel, Gustavo Santaolalla. (The US version of Mar Dulce includes 'Boldozas Majados' featuring NELLY FURTADO and JULIETA VENEGAS adding her vocals to a new version of the international hit single 'Pa' bailar' entitled 'Siempre Quiero Mas') Bajofondo's previous self-titled release sold over 300,00 copies and was awarded the Latin Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental in 2003. As on their earlier recordings, "Mar Dulce" sees Bajofondo's seven virtuosic musicians lead listeners through a sensual soundscape of tango, trip-hop, drum & bass and pop elements that redefine the essence of tango for the 21st century. This newest installment in the Bajofondo oeuvre features guest performances by Elvis Costello, Nelly Furtado, Julieta Venegas, Gustavo Cerati, Ryota Komatsu, La Mala Rodriguez, Santullo, Juan Subira and the final recorded performance by legendary Uruguayan tango diva Lagrima Rios. The irrepressible energy of "Mar Dulce" also translates live. The Financial Times describes a Bajofondo performance at London's Barbican Center like this: "DJ Juan Campodonico triggered drum loops and samples that cross-fertilised with the more traditional tango ensemble of violin, bandoneon...and double bass, all of which were brilliantly played by masters of their instruments. The crowd went wild for it, invading the stage at the end and cheering for more with a standing ovation..." Bajofondo is comprised of Gustavo Santaolalla on guitar, percussion, and vocals; Juan Campodonico on programming, beats, samples and guitar; Luciano Supervielle on piano, keyboards and scratch; Javier Casalla on violin; Martin Ferres on bandoneon; Gabriel Casacuberta on upright bass and electric bass; Adrian Sosa on drums; and Veronica Loza as VJ and on vocals. The new album, Mar Dulce, was recorded in real time. All the members played together in the studio as if they were a rock or a jazz group, which was a radically different approach from the first album. Mar Dulce was recorded in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo and Madrid. The multiplicity of locations reflects the cosmopolitan attraction of Bajofondo, as well as the eclectic list of guest artists including the extraordinary British singer and composer Elvis Costello, Spanish rapper Mala Rodriguez, virtuoso Japanese bandoneon player Ryota Komatsu and several Rio de la Plata artists whose origins cover the entire gamut from traditional to vanguard. Uruguayan artists participating range from the great Lagrima Rios (this would be her last recording) and guitarist Toto Mendez (musical director of Alfredo Zitarrosa's quartet) to electronica duo OMAR and vocalist Fernando Santullo, ex-Peyote Asesino, a band that also included Juan Campodonico. Argentine artists include Gustavo Cerati, the frontman for Soda Stereo, the most popular rock group in Latin America in the 1980s, and Juan Subira, keyboardist and composer of Bersuit, one of the most popular bands in Argentine rock, who makes a surprising appearance on Mar Dulce as a singer, revealing another facet of his talents.

Album Description
THIS IS THE STELLAR NEW ALBUM FROM RIO DE LA PLATA SUPERGROUP BAJOFONDO LED BY GUSTAVO SANTAOALLA AND JUAN CAMPODSNICO - FEATURES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM GUSTAVO CERATI, ELVIS COSTELLO, NELLY FURTADO, JUAN SUBIRA AND MANY MORE. DECCA.

Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Great, fascinating stuff, but not tango. August 13, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful

Formerly Bajofondo Tango Club, this is a South American music band consisting of seven musicians from Argentina and Uruguay.
The group - initially a studio project only - is essentially the seemingly unlikely combination of the Argentine Gustavo Santaolla -- probably best known as the new millennium's Ennio Morricone, having provided the scores for movies such as "The Motorcycle Diaries", "Babel" and "Brokeback Mountain" -- with the Uruguayian rock musician and producer Juan Campodonico.
Their first record, the hugely acclaimed and ground-breaking Bajofondo Tango Club, an inspired blending of tango with electronica, was launched in 2004 with great success.
In 2005 Bajofondo Remixed, employing several DJs and friends like pianist/DJ/composer Luciano Supervielle, further deconstructed the genre.
Often compared to Gotan Project, their music is a fusion of acoustic tango and electronic music, part of an evolving tango genre which is known as "electrotango" or "tango fusion", which is greatly helping to bring tango back into the mainstream.
The band, which prefers to refer itself as a "collective of composers, singers and artists", has a characteristic style that can be considered, besides the aforementioned mixture of tango and electronica, as an innovative form of DNB, house, chill out and trip-hop.
This newest installment in the Bajofondo oeuvre features guest performances by Elvis Costello, Nelly Furtado, Julieta Venegas, Gustavo Cerati, Ryota Komatsu, La Mala Rodriguez, Santullo, Juan Subira and the final recorded performance by legendary Uruguayan tango diva Lagrima Rios.
"With Bajofondo", says Santaolalla, "we don't like the label "electronic tango" because we try to make a contemporary music of Rio de la Plata (the river that forms part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay) music from Argentina, from Uruguay. Obviously, if you want to do music that comes from there or represents that part of the world tango is going to be part of it - but, in our case, so is rock 'n'roll, electronica and hip hop. Hopefully a new language, not pure tango".
"It recently reduced the name to Bajofondo, in recognition of the fact that the music the band is creating nowadays is reaching beyond simply tango. That's evident with opener "Grand Guignol," which blends a heavy drum'n'bass bottom end with the sweeping flourishes of tango. It's an unexpected pairing of visceral beat and florid romanticism, but it works awfully well. Tango remains the constant for Bajofondo, but the 17 tracks offer quite a few variations on a theme. Elvis Costello delivers a guest vocal on the dreamy tune "Fairly Right," and singer Veronica Loza is strong on the uptempo "Tuve Sol." Shrewd electronics endow the tango theme of "Pa' Bailar" with quite an extraordinary sting". -- Philip Van Vleck
The album is a fine blend of relaxed club beats, electronic sounds and perfectly danceable tangos, this is great CD to have in a tango collection to get the `cutting edge' end of the scale as a contrast to all the traditional stuff.
My favourite tracks : "Borges y Paraguay" , "Chiquilines' which has a Salsa feel and the complex "Pa' Bailar".
This is a great album to surprise people with as background music for a dinner party as well.
Fascinating stuff, but not tango, and not even trying to be tango.
Supervielle
Lunatico

5 out of 5 stars

Exquisito: el mejor album en espanol del 2008 July 15, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful

Este proyecto, liderizado por el mega-productor Gustavo Santaolalla, sale a la venta en USA varios meses despues de haber visto la luz del dia. La espera valio la pena, por cuanto la nueva edicion contiene tres temas mas que el original. El ensamble Argentino-Uruguayo sigue revetando la liga con su mezcla exquisita de ElectroTango que tanta falta nos hace: bandoneones se intercambian con baterias, bajos y voces. Juan Subira, Gustavo Cerati, Julieta Venegas, Elvis Costello y Nelly Furtado destacan entra los vocalistas que le dan a este album un toque un tanto diferente a los anteriores.

Altamente recomendable para los fanaticos del genero, asi como seguidores del chillout, lounge y todo el material genial que sale del coco de Gustavo Santaolalla.

4 out of 5 stars

Great fusion March 26, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I am a big fan of fusion type sounds (Cafe Tacuba = modern pop/rock + Mexican folklore; Aterciopelados is the same but with Colombian traditional music; similarly Carlos Vives from Colombia)!

With Argentina being a mecca of "rock en espanol" as well as the center of Tango, I think this does a great job to capture one essence of a mixed Buenos Aires. I'm a big fan of Gustavo Santaolalla and he does well here!

1 out of 5 stars

NOT NYC MUSIC August 30, 2008
1 out of 13 found this review helpful

THIS CD IS PRETTY MUCH AWFUL. I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE AMBIENT OR TECHNO EVEN HOUSE BUT NO IT'S SOUNDS LIKE SPANISH MUSIC. VERY DISAPPOINTING WHEN YOU THINK YOU ARE BUYING DANCE MUSIC.

4 out of 5 stars

Tango Plugged In to XXI Century Buenos Aires (4.5 stars) September 14, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

For those who are not familiar with traditional Tango nor heard any of the current representatives of its electro-forms, it worth knowing that Gustavo Santaolalla's production and leadership as well as Daniel Melingo's voice in a couple of tracks, makes this album something you ought to explore immediately.

Just like it happened with Astor Piazzolla--I'm comparing reactions to new versions of a traditional musical form, not suggesting that these guys are as revolutionary nor seminal as the great Piazzolla--any innovations performed on a genre as beloved like Tango will breed as many critics as new worshippers. I think this is equal parts respect for its traditonal forms as the unwillingness of some to accept the evolution of a powerful musical form.

That said, Bajofondo--along with Gotan Project--is a band to listen to if you are thinking of immersing yourself in the archetypal Argentine music' state of affairs. This particular album, to me, has built on their first and famous album, and taking it to a new level of depth. This is not an experiment, it is good music.

Besides Melingo's vocal contributions, there's a number of powerful tracks here, whether instrumental like Cristal, Zitarrosa or Borges y Paraguay, or thanks to some dead-on choices for vocals such as Elvis Costello in Fairly Right, Juan Subira--the song of the album--in Hoy , and Mala Rodriguez and Gustavo Ceratti's turns at the mike.

Santaolalla, as committed to Tango's classic composers as he is to exploring its outer edges, manages to keep things faithful to the mood of Buenos Aires without compromising the proverbial "pushing of the envelope." Whether you find winning two Oscars a respectable feat or not, it should say something about Santaolalla's capacity to create impressive soundscapes. As far as I'm concerned, he's the Rick Rubin of Latin America, more for his talent in recognizing the true sound of an artist than a comparison of career' successes.

All in all, if you are hooked on dancing Tango, go to Anibal Troilo, Horacio Salgan or Osvaldo Pugliese--all gods of the original form--because Bajofondo will disappoint you there. But if you were stung just as deeply by Buenos Aires and like to listen to the intricate evolution of a genre, this is a place to visit.

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