About this Artist

• Biography

Editorial Reviews

Those who have seen Spain's Radio Tarifa in concert know that the flamenco-fusion ensemble put on a dazzling, energetic festival of a performance. It's hard not to, when your beat is North African and Spanish soul music, and on driving tracks such as the "Bulerias Turcas," powered by an ecstatic electric guitar solo, and "Elli Yeddi Haq Ennas," which merges Algerian chaabi with a free-jazz soprano sax solo, they might be the best medieval party band there ever was. The charm of the Tarifa sound is just this kind of reverse engineering -- they take contemporary flamenco, Arabic music, and Jewish melodies apart, rendering all the rootsy components in stark relief. Thus bleat African oboes over flamenco guitars and palmas, thus djembe drums crackle over flutes and sax. Fiebre, recorded live in 1995 in Bologna and 2002 in Toronto, delivers all the genre-crossing delight this seasoned outfit has displayed in the studio, with an extra dose of flamenco duende. Mark Schwartz, Barnes & Noble

Customer Reviews

• Listener Rating: