Template:Future album

La Radiolina is the fifth solo album (fourth studio album) by Manu Chao. It will be released on 4 september 2007. Italy saw an advance release of the album on August 30. Rainin in Paradize is the first single from the album and is currently available for download on his website. The single features a music video directed by Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica. There is also a video for the song "Me Llaman Calle", featuring Manu Chao performing in a local bar.

Track listing

1. 13 Días
2. Tristeza Maleza
3. Politik Kills
4. Rainin In Paradize (Scheps version)
5. Besoin de la Lune
6. El Kitapena
7. Me Llaman Calle
8. A Cosa
9. The Bleedin Clown (Scheps version)
10. Mundorévès
11. El Hoyo
12. La Vida Tómbola
13. Mala Fama
14. Panik Panik
15. Otro Mundo
16. Piccola Radiolina
17. Y Ahora Que?
18. Mama Cuchara
19. Siberia
20. Soñe Otro Mundo
21. Amalucada Vida

Languages and style

The album's title La Radiolina means the small radio in Italian, referring to a small-sized transistor radio. The album is mainly sung in Spanish. "Politik Kills", "Rainin In Paradize", "The Bleedin Clown" and the first two lines of "Siberia" are in English; "Besoin de la Lune" and "Panik Panik" are in French; "A Cosa" is in Italian, a first for Manu Chao; "Amalucada Vida" is in Portuguese.

Musically, the album features a trademark of Manu Chao's style in its re-utilizing of the same instrumental backing tracks with different melodies and lyrics. "Rainin In Paradize", "El Kitapena", "Panik Panik" and "Mama Cuchara" all feature the same backing track, which is slightly heavier and rockier than the usual Manu Chao output, with distorted guitars played by Madjid Fahem; other tracks on the album are just coupled by using the same music. Such couples are "13 Días" and "Besoin de la Lune"; "Politik Kills" and "Mundorévès"; "A Cosa" and "Amalucada Vida"; "The Bleedin Clown" and "Y Ahora Qué?". "Piccola Radiolina" is an edited instrumental version of "Mala Vida", "Soñé Otro Mundo" is a short instrumental excerpt from "Otro Mundo". Moreover, "Me Llaman Calle" and "La Vida Tómbola" feature the same chords and the same accompaniment pattern, although the music is not exactly identical.

A similar 'recycling' process also affects some of the lyrics. "Tristeza Maleza" features the repeated phrase "Infinita Tristeza", from the album Próxima Estación: Esperanza; the lyrics for "Besoin de la Lune" originally appeared with different music, and in a slightly longer version, on the album Sibérie m'était contéee; that same album also included the original French lyrics of "Sibérie" (again with different music), which Chao partly translated in "Siberia"; the lyrics for "Mama Cuchara" were originally written in Quito, Ecuador, during a rainy Sunday^[1], and originally appeared, with different music, in Chao's short film "Infinita Tristeza", included in the Kikelandia bonus section of the 2002 Babylonia en Guagua DVD (that performance was never officially released). Additionally, "13 Días" and "Otro Mundo" cointain phrases appearing several times in Chao's previous output, such as "Me hielo en l'habitación / No tengo calefacción" in "13 Días" and "Calavera no llora / Serenata de amor" in "Otro Mundo".

Personnel / Credits

• Manu Chao: Vocals & guitars^[2]
• Madjid Fahem: Guitars & bass
• David Bourguigon: Guitars
• Jean Michel Gambit a.k.a. Gambeat: Bass & vocals
• Roy Paci: Trumpets
• Angelo Mancini: Trumpets on "Politik Kills"
• Tonino Carotone: Vocals and harmonies on "A Cosa"
• Amadou Bagayoko : Guitar on "A Cosa"
• Cheik Tidiane : Keyboard on "A Cosa"
• Flor: Spoken vocals on "A Cosa"
• Beatnik: Vocals on "Tristeza Maleza"
• José Manuel Gamboa & Carlos Herrero: Flamenco guitars on "Me Llaman Calle"
• Written, composed and produced by Manu Chao
• Mixed by Mario C., Andrew Scheps, Manu Chao and Charlie VDE Farravox
• Mastered by Adam Ayan @ Gateway Sound
• Artwork by Manu Chao and Wozniak
• Photos by Chucolinai

Note: the words "de Mexico" on Chao's T-shirt have been removed from the photo on the final cover, leaving only "El Golfo". However, part of the word "Mexico" (EX CO) is still visible (in red) on the T-shirt in the photo of Chao featured on the CD booklet's front cover.

References

External links

• manuchao.net, Official web site
• "La Radiolina" - The Leak - stream the whole album at MTV.com