Avignon 1995 Luis, an argentinian
musician born in Buenos Aires, decides together with some buddies to take
up the " Santa " torch again so as to shake up sad souls in a rythmical
flood of rumbas and other wild and boisterous compositions of all kind
. You are sure to be soon converted to it...
La " Gorda " (the fat woman) from Avignon invites you
all to come over in the shelter of her ample underskirt and take a sip
without restraint of the groovy warmth of her latin rythms (cumbia, rumba,
cuban son...) and pulsing rock-funk voices. A " root-music ", a superficial
sensitivity, bare and raw, naïve and skillfully handled by an uncommon
quatuor : Luis from Buenos Aires, Tito from Madrid singing along with his
guitar and percussions, Fabrice from South-west of France playing his bass
guitar, Jean-michel the drummer from the west of France.
Their texts recall the atmosphere of popular districts
and social rottenness, evoke like the tango true stories of wasted guys,
lost angels, red-lipped chicks and old fellows on the lowest side of the
city.
A commitment to the good side of life, to interbreeding
and eclecticism, served by a repertoire full of simple sensitivity, kitsch
but not syrupy, popular in all the nobility of the term, generous and crazy...
That's the Madre's fault !