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Señor Coconut: Fiesta Songs

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Label: multiColor Recordings
Released: 2003.05.19
Time:
 44:09
Category: Electronica
Producer(s): Atom Heart
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.senor-coconut.com
Appears with: Atom Heart, Flanger, Sieg über die Sonne
Purchase date: 2003.05.31
Price in €: 16,99



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[1] Smoke on the water (Blackmoore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 4:49
[2] Negra mi chachacha (F.Riverero) - 3:22
[3] Riders on the storm (The Doors) - 5:05
[4] Smooth operator (Adu/St.John) - 4:04
[5] El rey de las galletas (Senor Coconut) - 3:27
[6] Oxygene [Part II] (J.M.Jarre) - 3:36
[7] Blue eyes (E.John/G.Osborne) - 3:57
[8] Las maracas de machin (Senor Coconut) - 3:02
[9] Beat it (M.Jackson) - 3:55
[10] Electrolatino (Senor Coconut) - 4:06

Bonus title:
[11] Humo en el agua (Blackmoore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice) - 4:46  

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UWE SCHMIDT alias SEÑOR COCONUT, ATOM HEART - G4 Powerbook, Add. Percussions

AUGUST ENGKLIDE - Upright Bass, Scores, Horn Arrangements on [7]
ANGENSIS BRITO - Vocals, Add. Percussion
CARSTEN SKOV - Marinba
KLAUS RÖHR - Trombone & Bass Trombone
LARS VISSING - Trumpet, Flügelhorn
MORTEN GROENWALD - Vibraphone, Percussion
PETER KIBSGAARD - Percussion
THOMAS HAAS - Tenor & Baritone Saxophone

LINGER DECOREE - Design Sampling, Typography
RENATO DEL VALLE - Photography
CLAUDIA ELIZALDE - Visual Production
JAMES DEAN BROWN - Latino Research
 

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2003 CD multiColor Recordings MCR 125.2



Mit ihrem neuen, dritten Album "Fiesta Songs" beweisen Señor Coconut und sein Orchester, dass die Wiege aller populären Musik in Südamerika beheimatet ist. Wie ein Herz, das mit seinem Rhythmus das musikalische Weltgeschehen am Leben erhält, pumpt sich die Combo durch ein Repertoire von Megahits, die in einer Zeit entstanden sind, als Künstler noch keine One-Hit-Wonder waren.

Multicolor Recordings



The Señor from Santiago de Chile is standing on the Pop Olympus which must be located somewhere on one of the highest mountains of the Andes, and smiles knowingly…

Señor Coconut and his orchestra prove with their new, third album"Fiesta Songs" that the cradle of all popular music is definitely in South America. Like a heart keeping with its rhythm the musical world events alive, the combo is pumping itself through a repertoire of megahits having been produced at a time when artists had not been one hit wonders.

The hot-blooded Latin compositions by Coconut's own of his debut "Gran Baile" (Rather Interesting, 1997, re-release multiColor, 2001) have been passionately flirting with digital crispyness. Then the second album "El Baile Alemán" ("The German Dance"; multiColor, 2000) served the greatest electronic Kraftwerk jewels as Latin slammers to a perplexed public. Now"Fiesta Songs" is proving that "electronic" music has finally ceased to exist.

For this a personal statement by Señor Coconut:

"What has been manifested on "El Baile Alemán" has progressed a lot on"Fiesta Songs": the possibilities of combining and manipulating immense audio data on the harddisk generates an illusion of "authenticity". But this arises from the erroneous belief that one can assign the attributes"genuine" or "fake", "acoustic" or "electronic" to music. The truth is that all data is always equivalently available ? material having been recorded live by the combo as well as fragments of already existing, original recordings (formerly so-called "samples") and synthetical sounds.

Stylistically the album is mainly influenced by musical genres of the 50es: Mambo, Cha Cha Cha and Merengue. Like already having been demonstrated on the predecessor EP "Electrolatino", these and western popular musical styles (e.g. Electro) are treated as equally valuable or superfluous, historical quotations. Covers of Anglo-american Pop music and Latin traditionals are interpreted in a way sounding as if they have been recorded by a 23-headed orchestra around 1968 (my year of birth), related to arrangement, sound and mix. In company of these modified evergreens compositions of my own are inserted in a way that they become evergreens themselves. The result is is a highly complex, organic"Advanced Sampling"-collage the synthetical corset of which is breaking out every now and then.

Those who want to make a great leap forward first have to walk a few steps back. "Señor Coconut" is, without irony and cynicism, totally seriously anchored in the tradition of the great masters of eclecticism. Reaching back for musical history while simultaneously formulating a future-oriented message is a statement against music producers believing in the fetish of progress, who do not notice that they are merely a small wheel within the machinery of the music industry."

No matter whether one takes "Smoke on the Water", "Riders on the Storm" or "Beat It" ? the sound processing could be as follows: a newly recorded trumpet riff is merged with a baritone pattern by Tito Rodriguez and layered on a carpet of congas recorded live (right channel) and a bongo pattern by Tito Puente (left channel). Single notes of an instrument are manipulated at will and complemented or replaced by pieces of other material (synthetical or acoustic). The sense of hearing is directed to certain musical elements for the purpose of disguising sample artefacts.

These dynamical versions actually sound as if one has never perceived the titles any other way. "Oxygene", allegedly by Jean-Michel Jarre, has always been an Exotica discovery from a long forgotten, romantic movie score from the 50es out of the South Pacific region. The transplantation of the relics of the collective musical memory from the tropical harddisk to the spaciously linked, global music temple is sharpening emotional consciousness.

Señor Coconut is giving an extremely relaxing, yet hynotic experience. His sound is as brilliant as a fixed star in the sky of the Southern hemisphere. "Fiesta Songs" is a positive-minded expedition to the origins of musical passion, of "coolness" and "tightness".

Sun Ra already said: "I'm not interested in the future, I am interested in eternity."

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It's always nice to hear music that combines interesting ideas with a sense of humour and Fiesta Songs has plenty of both. Señor Coconut--aka prolific sonic chameleon Uwe Schmidt--has proved himself a master of tongue-in-cheek musical madness on many occasions. Schmidt's Señor Coconut persona has been his most popular project by far though. It's no surprise given the concept, which is the transformation of well-known songs into slightly cheesy, mildly exotic Latino lounge music.
After cha-cha-cha-ing a load of Kraftwerk classics on his previous El Baile Aleman (The German Dance) LP, he returns now with a more diverse collection than before, one that embraces a range of soul, pop and rock classics from the last 30 years. "Smoke on the Water", "Riders on the Storm", "Blue Eyes", "Smooth Operator" and "Beat It" all get the Coconut treatment and sit alongside a few original compositions. Some say he's a renegade genius, others that he's a tacky cover artist--most of us are too busy swaying and smiling to care.

Paul Sullivan - Amazon.co.uk



The alter ego of German producer Uwe Schmidt, Señor Coconut and his mighty orchestra first gained attention for their Latin-styled interpretations of Kraftwerk songs on 2000’s El Baile Aleman. The cheeky mariachi-meets-showroom-dummies recipe was not only damn funny, but also worked remarkably well. Fiesta Songs moves on from the robot anthems to cha-cha-cha, mambo and merengue covers of songs like Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water,” the Doors’ “Riders on The Storm,” Sade’s “Smooth Operator” and Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.” It isn’t quite as exciting as the last disc, but the music here is still humorous, offering a great way to lighten things up on the air or at a party.

Justin Kleinfeld - Jul 30, 2003
CMJ.com
 

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