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Radio Tarifa
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BY Chris WodskouPublished Jul 1, 2001
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Temporal (Radio Tarifa album)
1997 studio album by Radio Tarifa
Temporal is the second album by the Spanish band Radio Tarifa, released internationally in 1997.[3][4] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[5]
Production
[edit]The album was produced by Fain Dueñas and Vincent Molino; Dueñas was also the musical director.[6][7]Temporal incorporates more flamenco elements into the band's sound.[8] Radio Tarifa used such instruments as the darbuka, oud, crumhorn, and ney.[9][10] Studio musicians backed Radio Tarifa's three main members.[11] "El Mandil de Carolina" is a traditional Castilian and Galician composition.[6]
Critical reception
[edit]The Washington Post wrote that, "as is demonstrated by such pieces as the flamenco 'Solea' or 'Conductus', a 12th-century processional, Radio Tarifa also moves assuredly from the cafe to the cathedral."[14]The Guardian determined that "it's postmodern early music, for want of a funkier phrase, poised, surprising, inspiring, throbbing with percussion and sweeping the listener with Arabic instrumentation and Andalucian voices."[15]
Guitar Player concluded that "scholars and roman
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Radio Tarifa
Radio Tarifa was a Spanish World music ensemble, combining Flamenco, Arab-Andalusian music, Arabic music, Moorish music and other musical influences of the Mediterranean, the Middle Ages and the Caribbean. The name of the ensemble comes from an imaginary radio station in Tarifa, a small town in the Spanish province of Cadiz, Andalusia, the closest part of Spain to Morocco. Instead of simply fusing musical styles as they are currently known, Radio Tarifa went back in time to the common past of those styles, before the final conquest of Granada in 1492, when the Moors and Jews were exiled from Spain. This invented style sheds light upon the real styles of Spain, most notably flamenco,[1] although the band rejected all musical purism, preferring to mix arrangements of traditional compositions with their own melodies and combining instruments from Ancient Egypt, classical Greek and Roman times with modern saxophones and electric bass.[2]
History
[edit]Both Fain Dueñas (percussion, Spain) and Vincent Molino (flute, France) were students of Moroccan multi-instrumentalist and composer Tarik Banzi of the Al-Andalus Ensemble. Together they founded an early music group playing music from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance called Ars Antiqua M