Clandestino
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| Studio album by Manu Chao | ||||
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Publication |
1998 |
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| Label (s) | Virgin Records | |||
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CD, LP |
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Title (number) |
16 |
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running time |
45 min 51 s |
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Clandestino ("esperando la ultima ola ...") is Manu Chao's first solo album, released in 1998 .
Meaning of the title
"Clandestino", the title of the album, literally means "secretly". A clandestino is an undocumented person , an unrecognized traveler or an illegal immigrant . The eponymous opening song of the record "Clandestino" is about such a migrant, who has left his previous life behind on the journey between Ceuta and Gibraltar . The title addition "Esperando la ultima ola ..." literally means "waiting for the last wave ..." and is also the title addition of the piece Por el Suelo .
The album contains 16 songs sung mainly in Spanish, but also in French, English and Portuguese. The texts are often to be understood symbolically, but also have a thoughtful background. Among other things, they deal with the misery in the favelas in Brazil, in the slums of Bogotá and those in Dakar . In addition to several songs sung in narrative form, the album also contains songs that are composed of the same or very similar sentences repeated several times. Parts of the album were recorded on a four-track recorder during his travels around the world.
Track list
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- Clandestino - 2:28
- Desaparecido - 3:47
- Bongo Bong - 2:38
- Je ne t'aime plus - 2:03
- Mentira ... - 4:37
- Lagrimas De Oro - 2:58
- Mama Call - 2:21
- Luna y Sol - 3:07
- Por el Suelo - 2:21
- Welcome to Tijuana - 4:04
- Slide Luna… Slide Pena - 1:30
- Malegria - 2:55
- La Vie A 2 - 3:01
- Minha Galera - 2:22
- La Despedida - 3:10
- El Viento - 2:26
Publications and chart successes
The album had more than 2.5 million sales worldwide in connection with the success of the single Bongo Bong , which means that Manu Chao sold more units with one album than his previous band Mano Negra during their entire career. It is one of the world's best-selling French music productions. Especially in Central and South America, Clandestino was a great success.
At the Victoires de la Musique awards ceremony in February 1999, the album was named Best Album of the Year in the World Music / Traditional Music category. The album also achieved platinum status in Spain and was awarded gold in Germany.
Outcoupled singles were Bongo Bong and the title track Clandestino .
Bongo bong
Bongo Bong is a more electronic cover version of the Mano Negra song King Of Bongo . The song reached number 7 in the German single charts as well as number 4 in the Austrian, number 15 in the Swiss, number 40 in the French and number 45 in the Swedish charts. This single marked the chaos breakthrough in Europe and North America.
An instrumental version of Bongo Bong was the basis for the songs Mr. Bobby and Homens on Chaos album Próxima Estación: Esperanza . It was later covered by Robbie Williams (Rudebox), among others . The singing in Je ne t'aime plus comes from Anouk Khelifa-Pascal.
Quotes
"Clandestino 'is like a child who has raised itself: it has grown up without my having to constantly run after it."
Web links
- Clandestino minisite on the official website (French)
- Translation of the lyrics into German on spacequadrat.de
- Britt Weyde: Everyone wants to turn me into a political hero . ila No. 248, Information Center Latin America e. V., Bonn 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daniel Schöni: From Manu Chao to Mano Negra and back again to Manu Chao. In: 2-tone.de . Retrieved July 27, 2020.
- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH
- ↑ Life after Clandestino ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on arte.tv
- ↑ a b Manu Chao - Biography ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on rfimusique.com (English)
- ↑ Martin Horat: Beautiful and arbitrary - Manu Chao repeats himself. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 14, 2001, accessed July 27, 2020.
- ↑ French chanson goes international. In: diplomatie.gouv.fr (English).
- ↑ Gold / platinum database. In: musikindustrie.de .
- ↑ Chart tracking ( memento of the original from November 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at musicline.de
- ↑ Manu Chao Avec Anouk - Bongo Bong - Je ne t'aime plus. In: hitparade.ch . Retrieved July 27, 2020.
- ↑ Entertaininfo: Manu Chao. In: cineman.ch .
- ↑ Joachim Gauger: Another station on the path of the 'unrecognized traveler'. In: laut.de . June 5, 2001, accessed July 27, 2020.
