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Artist:
Savath & Savalas
Title:
Mañana -mini album
Release
Date: 11 October 2004
Label:
Warp Records
Cat#:
WAP177
Website:
http://www.prefuse73.com
A
quick recap: Savath & Savalas is Scott Herren and Eva
Puyeulo Muns. Scott is the fêted hip hop producer known
as Prefuse 73, who, as Savath & Savalas, has taken his
ingenious beatsmithery to exquisite new heights of delicate
songwriting with Spanish vocalist and collaborator, Eva. With
a critically acclaimed album, Apropa’t, released in January
2004, a captivating performance at America’s biggest
music festival, Coachella and a lengthy US tour that showcased
the finest in modern Spanish music, what else are Savath &
Savalas to do?
Give
everyone more of what they want… Savath & Savalas
return with Mañana, eight new tracks exclusive to this
release. Eva’s stunning vocal inflections are present
once again, providing a sultry addition to Herren’s mix
of electronic and organic atmospheres. Continuing to show
his breadth as both a songwriter and producer, Scott is able
to effortlessly separate himself from the thick electronic
funk of Prefuse 73 and, with Eva, creates bright slices of
Spanish psychedelia.
Sharing
a passion for South American music, especially early 1970s
Brazilian music, the simple production techniques, the sad
melodies also found in Spanish folk music, Afro/Cuban/Puerto
Rican/NYC fusions, Milton Nascimento, Maricio Lo Borges, Paco
Ibañez and Música Dispersa, Savath & Savalas
capture mood of dreamy intimacy, candlelit reverie and emotional
intensity.
Prefuse
73 will return in 2005 with a new album and a host of impressive,
big-name musical hook-ups. But for now, treasure these gems…
Apropa’t
“the year's first easy-listening sensation… a blissfully
accessible selection of space-age Spanish folk music. Blending
traditional classical guitar and accordion with electro squelches,
tape-effects, and some lovely trumpet and bass clarinet from
Chicago-based Dave Max Crawford and Paul Mertens, Apropa't
positively crackles with excitement.” The Daily Telegraph
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