Name: Puta's Fever
Brand: Virgin Records
SKU: 336038
Price: 10.95 USD
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Puta's Fever

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Album: Puta's Fever
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Mano Negra - (Spanish)
2)	Rock 'N' Roll Band
3)	King Kong Five
4)	Mala Vida
5)	Indios de Barcelona
6)	Sidi H' Bibi - (Arabic)
7)	Rebel Spell, The
8)	Peligro - (Spanish)
9)	Pas Assez de Toi - (French)
10)	Magic Dice
11)	Mad House
12)	Guayaquil City - (Spanish)
13)	Voodoo
14)	Patchanka - (Spanish)
15)	Rancon du Succ‚s, La - (French)
16)	Devil's Call, The - (Spanish)
17)	El Sur - (Spanish)
18)	Patchuko Hop - (Spanish)

Album: Puta's Fever
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Mano Negra - (Spanish)
2)	Rock 'N' Roll Band
3)	King Kong Five
4)	Mala Vida
5)	Indios de Barcelona
6)	Sidi H' Bibi - (Arabic)
7)	Rebel Spell, The
8)	Peligro - (Spanish)
9)	Pas Assez de Toi - (French)
10)	Magic Dice
11)	Mad House
12)	Guayaquil City - (Spanish)
13)	Voodoo
14)	Patchanka - (Spanish)
15)	Rancon du Succ‚s, La - (French)
16)	Devil's Call, The - (Spanish)
17)	El Sur - (Spanish)
18)	Patchuko Hop - (Spanish)

Performer Notes

Mano Negra: Oscar Tramor (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Helmut Krumar (guitar, keyboards, background vocals, programming); Jo (guitar, bass, background vocals); Roger Cageot (guitar, background vocals); Tonio Del Borno (trumpet, background vocals); Kropol (trombone); Santiago "El Aguila" Casariego (drums, background vocals); Garbancito (percussion).
Additional personnel: Mme. Oscar, Zofia, Naro "Chihuahua" (vocals); Alain "L'Enclume De Choisy" (acoustic bass).
Recorded at Mix It Studio, Paris, France.
Personnel: Helmut Krumar (vocals, guitar, keyboards, programming); Oscar Tramor (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Roger Cageot, Jo (vocals, guitar); Tonio del Borno (vocals, trumpet); Santiago el Aguila Casariego (vocals, drums); Garbancito (vocals, percussion); Kropol (trombone); Alain ? (double bass).
Recording information: Mix It Studio, Paris, France.
Arrangers: Thomas Darnal; Manu Chao.
The highly influential Puta's Fever opened the door for a flood of young rock bands outside the English-speaking music world to fashion new hybrids that reflected their own musical cultures blended with popular worldwide sounds like rock and reggae. Manu Chao and company started from patchanka, a fast-paced French music hall style that sounds like speeded-up ragtime or hot jazz, and started singing songs in Spanish, French, and Arabic. The motor driving all the disparate elements on Puta's Fever is Santiago el Aguila Casariego's fierce drumming. And what an array of styles -- calliope-like keyboards, a Latin groove on "Patchanka," Tex-Mex on Joe "King" Carrasco's "Patchuko Hop," and dub reggae on "Peligro" -- pass through Mano Negra's manic mix. "Mano Negra" sounds like soundtrack music for a spaghetti western surf movie (really), while "Rebel Spell" marries a gospel chorus and hard rock guitar to a rapped street tale of shooting Brother Rasta dead. Puta's Fever is a triumph of eclecticism as a style where each song shifts into a different musical gear, and one key jumping-off point for the rock en espa¤ol (or Latin alternative) school. Which doesn't mean that Mano Negra abandoned their original inspiration -- English lyrics dominate and there's a strong identification with a classic rock & roll outlaw stance in "Rock 'N' Roll Band" and the '50s-rooted "Devil's Call." ~ Don Snowden

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly - B- "multicultural"