Puta's Fever

• Artist: Mano Negra
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1989
• Total Time: 41:15
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

Review

The highly influential Puta's Fever opened the door for a flood of young rock bands outside the English-speaking music world to fashion new hybrids that reflected their own musical cultures blended with popular worldwide sounds like rock and reggae. Manu Chao and company started from patchanka, a fast-paced French music hall style that sounds like speeded-up ragtime or hot jazz, and started singing songs in Spanish, French, and Arabic. The motor driving all the disparate elements on Puta's Fever is Santiago el Aguila Casariego's fierce drumming. And what an array of styles -- calliope-like keyboards, a Latin groove on "Patchanka," Tex-Mex on Joe "King" Carrasco's "Patchuko Hop," and dub reggae on "Peligro" -- pass through Mano Negra's manic mix. "Mano Negra" sounds like soundtrack music for a spaghetti western surf movie (really), while "Rebel Spell" marries a gospel chorus and hard rock guitar to a rapped street tale of shooting Brother Rasta dead. Puta's Fever is a triumph of eclecticism as a style where each song shifts into a different musical gear, and one key jumping-off point for the rock en español (or Latin alternative) school. Which doesn't mean that Mano Negra abandoned their original inspiration -- English lyrics dominate and there's a strong identification with a classic rock & roll outlaw stance in "Rock 'N' Roll Band" and the '50s-rooted "Devil's Call." ~ Don Snowden, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Mano Negra	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(:57)
Rock 'N' Roll Band	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(2:33)
King Kong Five	Mano Negra, Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(1:55)
Mala Vida	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(2:52)
Indios de Barcelona	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(2:38)
Sidi H' Bibi		Mano Negra	(2:35)
The Rebel Spell	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(2:00)
Peligro		Mano Negra	(2:54)
Pas Assez de Toi	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(2:20)
Magic Dice	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(1:24)
Mad House	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(2:42)
Guayaquil City	Mano Negra, Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(3:02)
Voodoo	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(2:59)
Patchanka	Mano Negra, Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(3:07)
La Rancon du Succés	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(1:57)
The Devil's Call	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(1:42)
El Sur	Manu Chao	Mano Negra	(1:00)
Patchuko Hop		Mano Negra	(2:28)

Credits

Mano Negra (Producer), Mano Negra (Main Performer), Roger Cageot (Guitar), Roger Cageot (Vocals), Santiago el Aguila Casariego (Drums), Santiago el Aguila Casariego (Vocals), Tonio del Borno (Trumpet), Tonio del Borno (Vocals), Garbancito (Percussion), Garbancito (Vocals), Jo (Bass), Jo (Guitar), Jo (Vocals), Kropol (Trombone), Helmut Krumar (Guitar), Helmut Krumar (Keyboards), Helmut Krumar (Programming), Helmut Krumar (Vocals), Oscar Tramor (Guitar), Oscar Tramor (Keyboards), Oscar Tramor (Vocals), Manu Chao (Arranger), Alain ? (Double Bass), Thomas Darnal (Arranger)

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