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The bands de facto leader is Makaroff, an Argentine songwriter and producer that moved to Paris in the early 90s. At the time he made straight up Argentine tango music and found some success with a duo called Mano a Mano.
However, he soon met Cohen Solal (a French native) and Müller (Swiss by birth), who were also performing as a duo called Boys From Brazil. The three came together to form Gotan Project in 1999 and the year after that, they released their debut single "Vuelvo Al Sur / El Capitalismo Foráneo".
While they were still very much an underground concern, their music started to spread via fervent word of mouth. Only a thousand copies of their debut LP “La Revancha del Tango” were initially shipped out to DJs only, but Makaroff recalls finding bootleg copies of the album on the shelves of major music stores in his home city of Buenos Aries.
Through the aforementioned word of mouth and extensive play through adverts and TV shows, the album did start selling in more legitimate ways. It’s currently certified Gold in the U.K, Italy and Switzerland, and it’s also gone Platinum in their native France, as have their subsequent albums “Lunático” and “Tango 3.0”.
Cohen Solal describes the band’s sound as the mix of “the soul of Buenos Aires and the devil of Paris”. It’s a beautifully poetic statement and also a very apt one at that. There are few bands around making music that’s as truly universal as this.
Críticas en vivo
There’s nothing that produces that warm and fuzzy feeling inside quite as consistently as the spirit of international collaboration, and that actually might explain the sustained success of Gotan Project. Since their formation in 1999, the group - comprised of Phillipe Cohen Solal of France, Eduardo Makaroff of Argentina and Christoph H. Muller of Switzerland - have been bringing their intriguing blend of electronic dance music and more abstract world styles, such as tango, to a worldwide audience; they’ve been helped in no small part, to that end, by the inclusion of their tracks in a number of high profile Hollywood movies and television programmes, with Ocean’s Twelve, Chuck, Brothers and Sisters and Shall We Dance amongst the productions to feature Gotan Project. They can’t spend their lives living off of royalty cheques, though, and accordingly they’ve toured extensively over the years, visiting most of Europe as well as South America, where they retain a significant cult following. Unsurprisingly, their shows are diverse affairs in sonic terms, setting them apart from many of today’s live acts; their funky, high-energy tango style is relayed via a full live band, with the accordion, acoustic guitar and double bass, amongst other instruments, all present and correct, helping to make Gotan Project one of the most fascinating live propositions on the planet.
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