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 | IntaktoIntaktoLabel: Justin Time | World | October 1, 2002Format UPC Order # Unit Price |
Credits Pascal Bujold guitar Simon Claude violin Frédéric Darveau double bass (on tracks 07 and 09) Jean-François Groulx piano (on tracks 04, 07 and 09) Nicolas Maranda cymbal (on track 08) and electric guitar (on track 08) André Martin percussion (on track 03) Martin Roy double bass Alejandro Venegas guitar and voice | TracksNo Title Duration Excerpts 02 Bando 00:03:13 03 Lluvia De Vida 00:04:55 05 Mi Barca De Luna 00:04:02 06 Prepárense 00:04:12 08 Dis-Le 00:03:46 09 Taquito Militar 00:03:39 10 Don Quijote 00:03:31 11 La Partida 00:04:22 12 Milonga Para La Patria Ausente 00:04:35 13 Juillet 00:03:49 Liner NotesIntakto concerts are always born out of chaos. People congregate. Some have just heard about the odd-matching duo - the tall caballero from Chile with the elegant guitar and long-flowing black hair, and the pop-culture rebel from Montreal with the gypsy-sounding violin - others are Tango aficionados or simply world music enthusiasts. Tables, chairs, drinks get pushed and passed around. More people come in, stand, sit, laugh, and talk.Then suddenly, with a single stroke of the violin, the music slices into this atmosphere and everyone is transported into a world tumbling between depths of stark intensity and heights of giddy exhilaration. Wherever Intakto has performed, from packed clubs in Montreal to hotel lounges in Tokyo as well as tucked away country halls in Canada and the U.S., these contrasting emotions have always seemed to be their hallmark. At the start, around July 1995, the shows revolved entirely around tango classics, peevishly revisited. Today, seven years and hundreds of shows later, most pieces are original compositions - of which this album holds a majority. Yet through it all, one finds the same contrasts at the core: joy versus gravity, silliness versus virtuosity, delinquency versus devotion. Is it the delinquent approach to a venerable genre? Is it Simon Claudes naughty violin improvisations alternating with Alejandro Venegas deeply moving voice? Is it the silly remarks punctuating the desperate lyrics? The secret is nowhere to be found, yet the magic carries on. And this manner of being tossed between emotional extremes has appeared to strike universal delight in all audiences, for everywhere the band went, people reacted with the same unbridled enthusiasm, and, at the end of every show, when they had their head spinning, their smile aching, their eyes moist and their heart loose, they would ask the same question: Wheres the album? Well, here it is. Éric Taillefer |
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