New or Used : Reissue new Format : Double LP Gatefold Grading Cover / Record : S / S Label : world circuit Year : 2024 Catalog No / Pressing country : WCV042 - EU
Tarifa is the southernmost tip of Spain overlooking the Straits of Gibraltar and it's one of the places where illegal immigrants from North Africa attempt to land. Radio Tarifa thus named themselves for an imaginary radio station that would pick up and disseminate sounds and rhythms from all around the Mediterranean. “Radio Tarifa is a symbolic name,” explained Faín Sánchez Dueñas, one of the three founder members. “If you turn the dial of a radio there you can pick up sounds from North Africa, you hear the Arabic early morning call-to-prayer, from there you reach out into the whole of Mediterranean Europe, to the Middle East and beyond to the Americas. And that's us and our music – a meeting point between all the cultures that have passed through and continue to come through that part of Spain.” Radio Tarifa recorded their debut Rumba Argelina (1993) in a bedroom, with contributions from other ‘guest' musicians, plus some radio tuning FX. Released on Musica Sin Fin, a small Spanish label, the album was taken up by BMG and licensed to World Circuit. It was a surprising success and groundbreaking in two ways: it was one of the first internationally successful albums recorded ‘at home' with digital technology and, more importantly, it heralded a global audience for Spanish music on the “world music” scene. Rumba Argelina (Algerian Rumba) is now considered a classic album. The catchy title track is a rumba flamenco combined with a chorus in the style of Algerian chaabi music. Now that Tarifa-like fusions are common, not only in Spain, but across Europe, it's easy to forget how pioneering they were.
Tracklist A1 Rumba Argelina A2 Oye China A3 Lamma Bada B1 Mañana B2 La Canal B3 El Baile De La Bola B4 Soledad C1 La Mosca C2 Tangos Del Agujero C3 Nu Alrest D1 La Pastora D2 Ronda De Sanabria D3 Bulerías Turcas D4 Nina
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Tarifa is the southernmost tip of Spain overlooking the Straits of Gibraltar and it's one of the places where illegal immigrants from North Africa attempt to land. Radio Tarifa thus named themselves for an imaginary radio station that would pick up and disseminate sounds and rhythms from all around the Mediterranean. “Radio Tarifa is a symbolic name,” explained Faín Sánchez Dueñas, one of the three founder members. “If you turn the dial of a radio there you can pick up sounds from North Africa, you hear the Arabic early morning call-to-prayer, from there you reach out into the whole of Mediterranean Europe, to the Middle East and beyond to the Americas. And that's us and our music – a meeting point between all the cultures that have passed through and continue to come through that part of Spain.”
Radio Tarifa recorded their debut Rumba Argelina (1993) in a bedroom, with contributions from other ‘guest' musicians, plus some radio tuning FX. Released on Musica Sin Fin, a small Spanish label, the album was taken up by BMG and licensed to World Circuit. It was a surprising success and groundbreaking in two ways: it was one of the first internationally successful albums recorded ‘at home' with digital technology and, more importantly, it heralded a global audience for Spanish music on the “world music” scene.
Rumba Argelina (Algerian Rumba) is now considered a classic album. The catchy title track is a rumba flamenco combined with a chorus in the style of Algerian chaabi music. Now that Tarifa-like fusions are common, not only in Spain, but across Europe, it's easy to forget how pioneering they were.
Tracklist
A1 Rumba Argelina
A2 Oye China
A3 Lamma Bada
B1 Mañana
B2 La Canal
B3 El Baile De La Bola
B4 Soledad
C1 La Mosca
C2 Tangos Del Agujero
C3 Nu Alrest
D1 La Pastora
D2 Ronda De Sanabria
D3 Bulerías Turcas
D4 Nina