Name: King of Bongo
Brand: Virgin
SKU: 336362
Price: 9.95 USD
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King of Bongo

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Album: King of Bongo
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Bring the Fire
2)	King of Bongo
3)	Don't Want You No More
4)	Bruit du Frigo, Le
5)	Letter to the Censors
6)	Jako, El - (Spanish)
7)	It's My Heart
8)	Mad Man's Dead
9)	Out of Time Man
10)	Madame Oscar
11)	Welcome in Occident
12)	Furious Fiesta
13)	Fool, The
14)	Paris la Nuit

Performer Notes

Mano Negra includes: Oscar Tramor (chant vocals, guitar, accordion, clavier); Tonio Garbancito (chant vocals, guitar, drums); Roger Cageot (chant vocals, guitar); Del Borno (chant vocals, trumpet); Santiago "El Aguilla" Casariego (chant vocals, drums).
Personnel: Oscar Tramor (vocals, guitar, accordion); Roger Cageot (vocals, guitar, kazoo); Helmut Krumar (vocals, guitar, triangle); Garbancito (vocals, guitar, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Mano Negra.
Recording information: Conny's Studio (1990-1991).
King of Bongo showcases Mano Negra as a straightforward rock band, downplaying its trademark eclecticism and turning up the guitars. The manic rhythmic drive is throttled back, and the broad range of styles the group explored on Puta's Fever only pop up sporadically to spice the rock context. The almost all-English lyrics embrace the outlaw rocker stance, and the material is largely geared toward emphasizing Mano Negra's connection with the punk side of the rock spectrum. The ranting rave-up "Letter to the Censors" isn't that far from Mot”rhead, and the acoustic guitar and organ on "Out of Time Man" has a feel close to Iggy Pop's "The Passenger." "Don't Want You No More" even lopes along at a country & western-flavored clip. Mano Negra can rock hard and convincingly -- notably on the steady, rolling title track or when blending dub reggae and rap elements into "Bring the Fire" -- and the music still offers much more variety than the rock norm here. While King of Bongo isn't a bad album (and its English-language rock orientation might be easier for many people to connect with), it is the least distinctive of Mano Negra's career. ~ Don Snowden