Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Cumparsita - Cerioti
2. Cit� Tango - Astor Piazzolla
3. 'Round About Midnight - Chet Baker, Gotan Project
4. Confianzas - Gotan Project
5. Man [el Hombre Remix] - Peace Orchestra
6. Percusion, Pt. 1 - Domingo Cura
7. del Ruso [Calexico Remix][Version] - Gotan Project
8. Capitalismo For�neo [Antipop Consortium Remix] - Gotan Project
9. Tres y Dos [Tango] - An�bal Troilo
10. M.A.T.H. - J-Zone
11. Tr�ptico [Peter Kruder Trip de Luxe] - Gotan Project
12. Santa Mar�a (Del Buen Ayre) [Pepe Bradock Wider Remix] - Gotan Project

Disc 2:

1. Cruz del Sur [*] - Gotan Project
2. Sentimentale: La Cumparsita/Cit� Tango/Confianzas [*][Multimedia Track] - Cerioti, Gotan Project, Astor Piazzolla

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #112724 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-27
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Enhanced, Import

From the Label
Inspiracion / Espiracion, the follow-up to their critically and commercially successful La Revancha Del Tango release of 2003, is a double CD remix featuring Chet Baker and Astor Piazzolla, along with Peter Kruder, Anti-Pop Consortium, and Calexico remixing Gotan Project songs. The second disc contains a brand new track and ten minute enhanced video. Gotan Project draws on the African roots of tango and takes inspiration from Argentinian folk and the urban intensity of Buenos Aires, with its melancholy, women, cocaine, and indestructible, immortal tango.

Customer Reviews

Ditch the remixers and stick to the original!
As you might have gathered from the description, this is a rag-bag of assorted tracks old and new, some remixed and others strongly in the tango tradition. Most of the newer tracks are great, continuing the fine work of Gotan Project's stunning debut album with perhaps a slight tinge of 50s big band jazz thrown in for good measure. Perhaps a little less purist but worthy of exploration.

However, the good work is spoiled by some very sorry tango-electrica-hiphop hybrids that simply don't work. I can't imagine what possessed the band to allow these tracks to go out in their name - they add nothing whatever to the modern tango genre and don't belong here. Please stick to your original style guys, you were doing just fine!

Well worth buying but ...
I suspect I won't be the only fan who's slightly disappointed. I would have hoped for a bit more original material - still, this compilation worth waiting for. The first 6 tracks are great, especially for tango lovers, including the driving rhythm of 'Cite Tango', a lovely, silky, romantic rendering of 'Round about Midnight', and the swirling 'Confianzas', for me the one most obviously carrying on the spirit of 'Revancha del Tango'. The remixes on the second half of the main disc are a mixed bag though, from interesting, eveen startling, to downright pretentious. Bonus disc is good, makes it a good value package altogether.

Ah. come on now...
... it's not as bad as all that. Gotan's first CD was a masterpiece indeed, but this is worthy of more than three stars I think. Yeah, there are a couple of not-so-good's but they only stand out due to the amazing benchmark the first CD set. Nevertheless, I'd recommend this CD to anyone I know and a few I don't. Try it.