Carnabailito

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Composer Gaby Kerpel, of the aerial performance art/interactive theater troop De La Guarda, makes his solo debut with Carnabailito. Kerpel studied music during his youth in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but like his theatrical collaborators, he has tossed out the rule book of convention. Instead, he creates odd musical pastiches similar to iconoclasts Manu Chao or Howie B, radically reworking traditional and modern sounds and styles using a computer. Making this methodology his own, Kerpel also fuses traditional folk instruments and melodies from Northeastern Argentina. The results are simultaneous ancient and modern, but even with all the mixing and matching, there is nothing ambiguous about the music: comic opener "Se Que No Vas A Volver" is quite silly, the stumbling "Xpicamelo" is unadulteratedly weird Latin pop, and the child-like voices and haunting sounds of "Gabytok" are downright creepy. There's a sense of adventure here where anything is possible and often achieved, making Kerpel's musical vision far from typical. --Tad Hendrickson

Product Description
The Argentinean composer and musician behind the music for New York's long-running aerial-performance-art/interactive theater spectacle De La Guarda makes his solo debut. Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003.

Tracks:

Se Que No Vas A Volver
Herias Sin Herir
Seguis Sin Volver
Deseo Y Culpa
Budapestation
Xplicamelo
Cada Vez Que La Visita
Casi Te Canto
Gabytok
Toritos
Sintenerte
Carnabailito

Amazon.com

Composer Gaby Kerpel, of the aerial performance art/interactive theater troop De La Guarda, makes his solo debut with Carnabailito. Kerpel studied music during his youth in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but like his theatrical collaborators, he has tossed out the rule book of convention. Instead, he creates odd musical pastiches similar to iconoclasts Manu Chao or Howie B, radically reworking traditional and modern sounds and styles using a computer. Making this methodology his own, Kerpel also fuses traditional folk instruments and melodies from Northeastern Argentina. The results are simultaneous ancient and modern, but even with all the mixing and matching, there is nothing ambiguous about the music: comic opener "Se Que No Vas A Volver" is quite silly, the stumbling "Xpicamelo" is unadulteratedly weird Latin pop, and the child-like voices and haunting sounds of "Gabytok" are downright creepy. There's a sense of adventure here where anything is possible and often achieved, making Kerpel's musical vision far from typical. --Tad Hendrickson

Album Description

The Argentinean composer and musician behind the music for New York's long-running aerial-performance-art/interactive theater spectacle De La Guarda makes his solo debut. Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Totally OK music.......2004-05-31

I wasn't going to buy this at all, but I knew it was going to be cool so I did. Plugged it in and laid back, but figured it would be isochronal and I'd have to pop it out immediately. But it was totally chill, not some laughable crap thing. Ethereal, soft and floating drums and flutes punched straight through my brain pan. Organic, earthy and electronic. Totally, definitely sort of blippy. Like if Alison Krauss and Union Station's plane crashed into the Amazon jungle and they were devoured by an undiscovered band of flesh-eating aboriginals, who then formed a recording studio using the aircraft's flight control panel and some brazil nuts. Tasty.

kerpel.......2003-10-08

i wish i could see him live, but really have no way to find out. i live in a small crap town, but man, i got this disc on the recomendation of a coworker at the record store i work at and i can't stop thanking him. it's very laid back, very well done, and very cool. gaby manages to marry electronica and argentinian folk effortlessly. flutes,loops, messy drumbeats and weirded out voices dominate this soundscape of a cd. i hope he catches on.

Gaby ..yeah........2003-10-08

i dig it! i reccomend to all you amazon folks out there. i was skeptical and ready to scoff at it, deeming it a sort of world new age crap thing, but it turned out to be totally different, and while it is worldly and earth based, it's very electronic as well. it's great to have on while cleaning the house or having people over for dinner. it's a very chill, laid back, but demanding disc.

yes.......2003-10-07

its as if bjork ventured to argentina...got a little more earthy and flute happy and made an album. i love it. it's blippy, natural and organic.

gaby impresses.........2003-10-07

the new disc shines. when i put it on, i knew i'd dig it. it's very organic in texture yet remains electronic and almost blippy as well. it's as if bjork vacationed in latin terrains and wrote an album. check it out.

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