(DINO &) MONTEVIDEO BLUES – Montevideo Blues. Lion Productions LION 614. NEW UNPLAYED CD. This item does not come factory sealed. Originally issued in 1972. This edition issued in 2007 with the addition of 7 bonus tracks (one non-album single track, two pre-Montevideo Blues tracks from a 1968 compilation, and 4 tracks that comprised two Dino solo singles from 1969) and a 32-page informative/photo insert booklet. TRACKS:  Milonga De Pelo Largo, Para Hacer Musica Para Hacer, Pongamos Muchas Balas Al Fusil, Si Te Vas, Montevideo Blues, Hermano Americano, Sentimiento, Un Color, Chamarrita El Chiquero, and Hay Veces/Canta Canta Canta. BONUS TRACKS:  Que Dira El Santo Padre (non-album single, a-side), Sendero De Rosas (Path Of Roses) and Rubio Es El Color (Red Is The Color) (both from the 1968 compilation album La Juventud as by Dino con Los Orthincones), Deja Esa Vieja Tristeza (solo single, a-side), 19 De Octobre (solo single, b-side), Hay Veces (solo single, a-side), and Canta Canta Canta (solo single, b-side). DESCRIPTION:  The one and only album by Dino & Montevideo Blues (Macondo GAM 551, 1972) deserves to be a serious contender as one of the most important, and as it happens, most grooving, records ever released in Uruguay. But there is another reason that the album has attained exalted status: the incisive power of the lyrics, which are all the more impressive considering the national turmoil out of which they were created (English translations are included with the insert booklet). Montevideo Blues was founded by Uruguayan song-writing legend Gastón “Dino” Ciarlo as a way to fuse the rawness of rock music with obscure native Uruguayan rhythms like malambo, milonga and chamarrita—a logical direction to pursue after Dino had attempted pop/candombe fusions in his solo recordings. “At the time, we were revolutionary and looking for change,” said Dino. Montevideo Blues demonstrated an unyielding and combative attitude. During live shows in 1971, Dino often criticized the government—a level of political commitment reflected in the lyrics of the songs, some of the most radical ever set to music. Eduardo Mateo, the sacred monster of modern Uruguayan music, was succinct: “You have decided to prune the tree,” he said to Dino. The album opens with one of Dino’s most famous songs Milonga de Pelo Largo (Milonga of the Long Hair), a sinuous song transformed by the arrival of the dictatorship into a hymn of Uruguayan popular resistance. The rest of the album tracks have an edgy, atonal quality, with terrific unconventional angular guitar and a kind of ragged glory, all driven along by insistent grooving rhythms, whether from native drums or the clicking of drumsticks. Bonus tracks include beat-rockers Sendero de Rosas and Rubio es el Color, from the rare La Juventud compilation album, as well as both sides of Dino’s two early singles for RCA Vik. A 32-page booklet is packed with photos, detailed band history, and lyrics for this important Uruguayan band.  





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