Music CD - Federico Aubele: Panamericana

	Music CD: Panamericana Artist: Federico Aubele List Price: $15.98 Our Price: $8.99 Your Save: $ 6.99 ( 44% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Eighteenth Street Lounge
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Tracks: 1. La Esquina 2. Maria Jose 3. n Cada Lugar 4. Las Canciones 5. Tan Dificil 6. La Orilla 7. Pena 8. Este Momento 9. Corazon 10. En El Desierto 11. Lluvia 12. Su Melodica 13. La Mar
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0795103011724 Label: Eighteenth Street Lounge Manufacturer: Eighteenth Street Lounge Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Eighteenth Street Lounge Release Date: 2007-09-18 Studio: Eighteenth Street Lounge
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Just as good as the first Comment: I have no idea why some people think this album is so different from Gran Hotel, but it's not at all. It's a pretty common phenomenon for people to react that way to an album they've been anticipating with high hopes I guess. But the fact is, this is along the exact same lines. There's very few stylistic changes, and the overall feel is almost exactly the same. It's slightly less lush because he cut out some of the atmospheric background, but mix up the songs from the 2 albums and no one would be able to tell you which songs were from which. I was weary before I got this because people say it doesn't live up to his debut, but I was wasting my time worrying about those people. Not only does it live up to it, but it's basically an extension of it. If you love Gran Hotel, you should definitely give this a try. If you're not familiar with Federico already, he makes chilled-out latin lounge music with Spanish lyrics. It's all very mellow with lots and lots of Spanish guitar and pleasant voices. Customer Rating: Summary: Better the second time Comment: Federico Aubele writes,plays, and sings a style of music that is nice to listen to over and over...and should age well This album, is a little less pop (to me) than his first but in a very nice way Customer Rating: Summary: So smooth! Comment: From my first listen, I loved the entire album. The Spanish guitar, the percussion, and both of their voices are so sultry. Love it! Customer Rating: Summary: Highly Recommended Comment: At first listen, I didn't think this was as good as Gran Hotel Buenos Aires, his first album. In the end though, it is--this album has a more consistent groove--some of it is even danceable. In part, this makes it sound a bit more generic, and a bit less distinctive; there is less of a clear Argentinian center on this disc. This album doesn't have the highs of the first album--no song is as good as Diario de Viaje or Contigo--but the tone is more consistent and even than Gran Hotel, which had some extremely slow, dirge-like songs that broke up the rhythym of even a 5-star album. As good as Gran Hotel was, it isn't easy to listen to it all at once. This album is more coherent, and easy to listen to all the way through, any time day or night--it represents the growth of an excellent artist. The song with Amparo Sanchez of Amparonoia is excellent--they really should do an album together! Customer Rating: Summary: Not very friendly Comment: I could only play this in my car. When I put it in my Mac and tried to download it to iTunes it caused iTunes to crash. It took me a couple of hours to fix my iTunes. All I wanted to do was load it on my iPod so I could take it with me. I don't know what caused it but I am not happy. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The name of Federico Aubele's new record references the Pan-American highway, a road that stretches--except for a 54-mile gap in the Columbian rainforest--from northern Alaska all the way to the southernmost tip of Latin America. Built as a supply chain during World War II, long stretches of it are more dirt than concrete, and less than obvious signage could leave you hopelessly lost. It's more of an idea than a road really, a metaphor for the complicated connections between these two continents. For Aubele, it's a way to summarize the fused cultural mismatch at the heart of his sound. As on his 2004 debut Gran Hotel Buenos Aires, Panamericana is grounded in Latin guitar, tango, and Argentine flavor, but it's also steeped in a more modern brew of trip-hop, dub, and ambient textures. The combination works, of course; released on Thievery Corp's ESL label, it fits nicely with the subgenre of ethnic-infused acid jazz that's also sprung up around artists like Gotan Project and Fila Brazilia over the last decade or so. Still, one wonders what Aubele's music would be like without the velvety bass hooks and electronic sheen. His guitar work here, though not as prominently featured as it was on Gran Hotel, beams through the production rumble like filtered sunshine as it wraps around a mix of male and female voices (all singing in Spanish). He could probably ditch the whole fusion approach and release straight world music (à la Seu Jorge, say) that matches or exceeds the material here. But though it can get weighed down by its reverb-laden haze, Panamericana's airy melodies and sensual tunes will still set you adrift in a warm sea of daydreamy armchair travel. --Matthew Cooke