Manal [Import, Limited Edition]

Manal | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Limited Edition
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00009Y2KN
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #518,629 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jugo De Tomate

2. Porque Hoy Naci

3. Avenida Rivadavia

4. Todo El Dia Me Pregunto

5. Avellaneda Blues

6. Casa Con Diez Pinos

7. Informe De Un Dia

8. No Pibe

9. El Leoncito

10. Para Ser Un Hombre Mas

11. Blues De La Amenaza Nocturna

12. Necesito Un Amor

13. Que Pena Me Das

14. Elena

Editorial Reviews

Paper sleeve version of the Argentinean rock band.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars When Buenos Aires Began to Rock, November 16, 2003

By 

Juan Mobili (Valley Cottage, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Manal (Audio CD)

Manal, along with Almendra, represented the first great moment of Rock and Blues in Argentina. Of course there were some important precedents like Los Gatos and Moris, among others, but Manal was different. They claimed Blues as an Argentinian experience, and made Buenos Aires, for some of us very young then, our city.
Manal, an invented word in Spanish that can be translated as "a lot of hands," reached all their fingers to the gray sky of a city catching up with the new music of the world (The Who's Tommy was just coming out, and the Stones were still bad boys) and offer their take on being young and angry and sad.
This CD contains some of their best stuff from their original recording for the independent label Mandioca, first and only of its kind in those days. You can hear songs that became hymns to us down there, like Jugo de Tomate ("If you want to be a big shot / cold tomato juice / in your veins /you will have to have" the chorus went), or Avenida Rivadavia and Casa con Diez Pinos. There are too some tunes from their second album, although this one never matched the raw energy and lovely poor production of the first.
I think that you don't need to have been born in Buenos Aires nor understand what Latin America was up to, to appreciate these songs. They are forefathers to the lo-fi / indie movement that has spawn so many great bands in the States. I have no proof but I'm sure that Vic Chesnutt would approve.