Motorcycle Diaries

[DudeAsInCool]

Latin Music's Genius Nails it Cold

by: matt cibula

Of all the amazingly talented people in the world of rock en español, there is only one who can be said to be a stone-cold genius. That man's name is Gustavo Santaolalla, and he has produced about seventy of the best albums you have never heard. Café Tacuba! Bersuit Vergabarat! Julieta Venegas! I'd keep on listing them, but you kind of need to look him up and find it out for yourself, and then get everything he's ever produced. The space and texture he gives his recordings are pretty rare, but the energy and the drive of his work is even more important. O what a lovely man. So I kind of flipped when I found out he was doing the soundtrack for The Motorcycle Diaries.

...A lot of these tracks are touched by gentle ambient drones, kind of like Mark Knopfler's soundtrack work for things like Cal, but touched with Latin grooves you could drive a 1939 Norton 500 through.

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