Grupo Fantasma - El Existential '2010
| Artist | Grupo Fantasma Related artists |
| Album name | El Existential |
| Country | |
| Date | 2010 |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Play time | 48:32 min |
| Format / Bitrate | Stereo 1420 Kbps
/ 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps |
| Media | CD |
| Size | 334 MB |
| Price | Download $2.95 |
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Over the past decade, Grupo Fantasmas done for Latin music locally what George Clinton did for funk globally: established a standard of excellence with a relentless assembly line of grooves. Crowned with a Grammy nomination for 2008s Sonidos Gold, the 10-piece enterprises highly anticipated follow-up and fourth LP overall intensifies that Mothership Connection, delving into the liquid psychedelia thats become a hallmark of Grupos mostly instrumental offshoot Brownout. As such, El Existential is all in the details: the spaghetti Western guitar break in the Tex-Mex-textured Montañozo, the woozy vocal treatment of the convulsive El Consejo, and the heavy psych detonation halfway through the downbeat salsa of Hijo. Aside from more traditional fare, Sacatelo Bailando and 25, the self-recorded and produced El Existential lacks the cohesion of the groups early work, focusing instead on furthering its genre alchemy, notably in Cumbianchera and shape-shifter Telaraña, the latter featuring the Meat Puppets Curt Kirkwood. La Conozco whirls a dancehall carnival of smoke and mirrors, a delirious haze of keys and washboard guitar peppered by Mark Gonzales ragtime trombone break, while satyriasis seduction Juan Tenorio begets the Fania polish of guest pianist Larry Harlow. Soundtrack interlude Reconciliar takes a cinematic cue from producer/guitarist Adrian Quesadas Ocote Soul Sounds, and funky closer Araña Cuña conjures vodun incantation. Consider El Existential another chapter in Grupo Fantasmas new world order. (Grupo Fantasma blows out Antones Friday, May 7, and Saturday, May 8.) Tracklist: 01. Grupo Fantasma - Realizando (4:17) 02. Grupo Fantasma - La Conozco (4:17) 03. Grupo Fantasma - Sacatelo Bailando (4:07) 04. Grupo Fantasma - El Consejo (4:08) 05. Grupo Fantasma - Hijo (3:35) 06. Grupo Fantasma - Juan Tenorio (5:17) 07. Grupo Fantasma - Montañozo (4:03) 08. Grupo Fantasma - Calor (2:57) 09. Grupo Fantasma - 25 (1:04) 10. Grupo Fantasma - Reconciliar (3:29) 11. Grupo Fantasma - Telaraña (4:07) 12. Grupo Fantasma - Cumbianchera (3:48) 13. Grupo Fantasma - Araña Cuña (3:22)