Gotan Project

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Gotan Project
Gotan Project at the end of a concert in Porto, Portugal
Gotan Project at the end of a concert in Porto , Portugal
General information
Genre (s) Electrotango
founding 1999
Current occupation
Philippe Cohen Solal

Eduardo Makaroff Christoph H. Müller

Gotan Project is a music group from Paris who became known for Electrotango . The band name is a play on words from the Lunfardo and was created by interchanging syllables from the word tango . Something similar happens in Verlan, France . A sound-defining instrument in the music of the Gotan Project is the bandoneon typical of tango .

history

The group was founded in 1999. Cohen Solal and Müller worked together earlier as Boyz from Brazil , Christoph H. Müller played with Touch El Arab . The debut album La revancha del tango was released in 2001. This core trio drew Argentine musicians such as the pianist Gustavo Beytelmann , the bandoneonist Nini Flores and the percussionist Edi Tomassi as well as the Danish violinist Line Kruse and the Catalan singer Cristina Vilallonga for this and other productions .

In 2003, the group received the World Music Award of the BBC in the category Newcomer .

The title Santa maría (del buen ayre) was used in the film May I ask? (USA 2004, original title: Shall We Dance? ) Used for a tango between the main actors Jennifer Lopez and Richard Gere . In 2009, the song Época was used for a TV commercial for the dish cleaner Calgonit . Santa Maria was also featured in the 2010 action comedy Knight and Day , which starred Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, which also featured the title Diferente . In the Tanzfabrik from the series Everything that counts , people often dance to the title Peligro .

On their album Tango 3.0 from 2010, Dr. John in the title Tango Square on the B3 Hammond organ .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK FR FR
2001 La Revancha del Tango - AT14 (37 weeks)
AT 		CH53
gold
gold

(22 weeks)CH 		UK91
gold
gold

(1 week)UK 		FR12
platinum
platinum

(106 weeks)FR
First published: October 22, 2001
2006 Lunático DE56 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT14 (16 weeks)
AT 		CH3 (23 weeks)
CH 		UK66 (2 weeks)
UK 		FR6th
gold
gold

(80 weeks)FR
First published: April 10, 2006
2010 Tango 3.0 DE41 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT12 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH6 (22 weeks)
CH 		UK61 (1 week)
UK 		FR4th
platinum
platinum

(53 weeks)FR
First published: April 20, 2010

More albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK FR FR
2004 Inspiración Espiración - AT47 (6 weeks)
AT 		CH40 (5 weeks)
CH 		- FR46 (12 weeks)
FR
First release: September 2004
remix album
2006 La Revancha del Tango / Inspiración Espiración - - - - FR194 (2 weeks)
FR
First published: October 2006
compilation
2007 Lunático / La revancha del tango - - - - FR187 (6 weeks)
FR
First published: October 2007
compilation
2008 live - - CH98 (1 week)
CH 		- FR135 (2 weeks)
FR
First release: November 2008
live album
2011 La revancha en cumbia - - - - FR122 (2 weeks)
FR
First release: October 2011
remix album
Best of - - - - FR52 (7 weeks)
FR
First published: November 2011
compilation

more publishments

  • 2001: remixes
  • 2002: Santa Maria Vol. 2
  • 2003: Una Musical Brutal
  • 2005: La Revancha del Tango Live
  • 2006: El Norte
  • 2006: Wed Confesion
  • 2006: Live at KCRW
  • 2008: Gotan Object
  • 2010: Rayuela
  • 2010: Tango 3.0 Remix
  • 2011: La Gloria
  • 2011: Tango 3.0 Live
  • 2011: Nueva Cumbia
  • 2011: Strength To Love
  • 2014: Club secreto

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK FR FR
2001 Santa María
La Revancha del Tango 		- - - UK91 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: 2001

Web links

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  1. ^ Gotan Project - biography, discographie et fiche artiste. March 3, 2011, accessed March 27, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK FR
  3. ↑ Awards for music sales: CH UK FR