Prepare to weep! A rare 1987 album by the legendary, charismatic Uruguayan singer-songwriter Eduardo Mateo (1950–90) has arrived.
A collaboration with Fernando Cabrera, the singer-songwriter who represents the generation after Mateo. But has anyone anywhere in the world interpreted bossa nova guitar and the emotion of saudade as strangely as Mateo and his circle? Add candombe rhythms and percussion (played by Mateo himself) — feeble-sounding yet utterly addictive, and hugely psychedelic on top of that. Too acid to call Latin/world music, too earthy and original to call singer-songwriter fare. And yet it isn't merely bizarre: this is beautiful South American psychedelia. You can listen to it forever. Includes "Yu Le Le" and, as the closer, Mateo's classic "Mejor Me Voy," also performed on his album with Diane Denoir.
(Original Japanese text by Shhhhh)
A collaboration with Fernando Cabrera, the singer-songwriter who represents the generation after Mateo. But has anyone anywhere in the world interpreted bossa nova guitar and the emotion of saudade as strangely as Mateo and his circle? Add candombe rhythms and percussion (played by Mateo himself) — feeble-sounding yet utterly addictive, and hugely psychedelic on top of that. Too acid to call Latin/world music, too earthy and original to call singer-songwriter fare. And yet it isn't merely bizarre: this is beautiful South American psychedelia. You can listen to it forever. Includes "Yu Le Le" and, as the closer, Mateo's classic "Mejor Me Voy," also performed on his album with Diane Denoir. (Original Japanese text by Shhhhh)