Tinta Roja

by Andres Calamaro

Overview

After leaving Spanish-Argentinean band Los Rodriguez, beginning a successful solo career with albums Alta Suciedad and Honestidad Brutal, and then feeling the ravages of rock & roll stereotypes (sex and drugs) while releasing free demos and rarities through his website and the only-for-the-die-hard-fan El Salmon, Andres Calamaro seemed to rise musically from the ashes, in part thanks to the contact with a flamenco-jazz fusion wave that was taking place in Madrid back in 2002, releasing El Cantante and El Regreso (the latter's name perhaps suggesting more than just a title for an album). Calamaro seemed to realize that if he, in some way, was going to be remembered in Spanish-Argentinean music history, it would be thanks to his voice more than to his compositions (some have compared him to tango singer Roberto Goyeneche), focusing his career, therefore, on being a cantor (singer), as he calls himself. Tinta Roja is the second studio album in collaboration with a Madrid flamenco-jazz group of musicians (the great Nuyorican trumpetist Jerry Gonzalez, flamenco guitar player Nino Josele, and bassist Alain Perez among others), and the 2004 grammy's best Latin producer Javier Limon, responsible of producing masterpieces like Bebo & Cigala's Lagrimas Negras or Paco de Lucia's Cositas Buenas. The album consists of classic Latin-American tangos and boleros, but far from being just another compilation, Tinta Roja offers a special sound texture with an unusual blend of tango and emotive permutations, Spanish guitars, and trumpets borrowed from flamenco and Latin jazz. From the first to the last song, listeners can enjoy two of Latin music's most intense genres, and with the deepest emotional roots, the Argentinean tango and Spanish flamenco. ~ Alfonso Goiriz

Product Details

Release Date:	01/05/2024
Label:	Wea
UPC:	5054197769078
Rank:	66169

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Andres Calamaro   Primary Artist
Antonio Serrano   Harmonica
Enrique Cadicamo   Letra
Nino Josele   Flamenco Guitar
Celedonio Flores   Letra
Alain Perez   Bajo Sexto
Jose Reinoso   Piano
Pepe Loeches   Mezcla
Horacio Ferrer   Letra
Catulo Castillo   Letra
Alfredo Le Pera   Letra
Jose Reinoso & Repique   Piano
Jose Maria Contursi   Letra
Homero Manzi   Letra

Technical Credits

Mariano Battistella   Composer
Andres Calamaro   Coros,Interpretation
Enrique Cadicamo   Composer
Javier Limon   Producer
Juan Carlos Cobian   Composer
Pedro Laurenz   Composer
Sebastian Piana   Composer
Nino Josele   Coros
Celedonio Flores   Composer
Anibal Troilo   Composer
Alan Silverman   Mastering
Astor Piazzolla   Composer
Carlos Gardel   Composer
Horacio Ferrer   Composer
Catulo Castillo   Composer
Jose Razzano   Composer
Alfredo Le Pera   Composer
Jose Maria Contursi   Composer
Salome Limon   Recording
Alfredo Lepera   Composer
Jose Bazzano   Composer
Homero Manzi   Composer