Genre
World music and Andalusian folk. Temporal deepens Radio Tarifa's distinctive synthesis of flamenco, Arab-Andalusian music, Sephardic song and medieval European polyphony, incorporating more flamenco material than their debut while deploying instruments ranging from darbuka, oud, ney, and crumhorn to modern saxophone and electric bass.
Release
BMG Ariola (Spain), 1996. Subsequently licensed to World Circuit Records for international distribution and to Nonesuch Records for the North American market
Production
Produced by Faín S. Dueñas and Vincent Molino, with Dueñas also serving as musical director. Recorded by Antonio Del Rosal at Audiotécnica S.L., Madrid, and mixed by Dueñas and Molino at Estudios Trak, Madrid, Spain.
Reception
The album was enthusiastically received by the international world music press. The Washington Post noted that Radio Tarifa "moves assuredly from the café to the cathedral," praising pieces such as the flamenco "Soleá" and "Conductus," a 12th-century processional. The Guardian described it as "postmodern early music, poised, surprising, inspiring, throbbing with percussion." The album was supported by a North American tour and consolidated Radio Tarifa's international standing in the world music circuit.
Radio Tarifa
Radio Tarifa are a Spanish world music ensemble formed in Madrid, taking their name from an imaginary radio station in Tarifa — the small Andalusian town closest to Morocco — which evokes the group's central artistic premise: the musical world of the Iberian Peninsula before the final conquest of Granada in 1492. Rather than simply fusing existing styles, the ensemble researched the common pre-Reconquista roots of flamenco, Arab music, and Sephardic song, combining instruments from ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval European traditions with contemporary electric bass and saxophone. Their core members are vocalist Benjamin Escoriza, multi-percussionist Faín Sánchez Dueñas, and multi-instrumentalist Vincent Molino.
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