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Artist: Kirsty MacColl. Title: Tropical Brainstorm. Edition: Album. Format: CD. MPN: VVR1009872. Record Label: V2. EAN: 5033197098722. No Of Discs: 1.

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Product Identifiers

Record Label
V2 (USA)
UPC
5033197098722
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28050187999

Product Key Features

Artist
Kirsty MacColl
Format
CD
Release Year
2001
Release Title
Tropical Brainstorm [UK]
Run Time
49 mins 12 seconds
Genre
Rock

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This is an Enhanced audio CD wich contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel includes: Kristy MacColl (vocals, lap steel guitar, auto harp); Felix Gonzalez (rap vocals); Pete Glenister (guitar, programming); Luiz De Almeida (nylon string guitar, surdo); Ernesto Estruch (violin, piano); Omar Puente, Gabriel Fonseca (violin); James Knight (saxophone); Ben Storey (trumpet); Joseph De Jesus (trombone); Mark Hinton Stewart (keyboards). Producers: Kristy MacColl, Pete Glenister, Dave Ruffy. TROPICAL BRAINSTORM, the last studio release from popular singer Kirsty MacColl, features a distinctive latin influence and includes the tracks "Mambo De La Luna" and "Us Amazonians." Personnel: Kirsty MacColl (vocals, lap steel guitar, autoharp); Pete Glenister (guitar, programming); Chucho Merchán (double bass); Dave Ruffy (drums, programming); Roy Dodds (percussion); Lee Groves (programming). Audio Mixers: Pete Glenister; Richard Manwaring; Jeremy Wheatley. Director: Rob O'Connor. Illustrator: James Marsh. Photographer: Rocky Schenck. This is a very difficult album to critique in a dispassionate way. A singer/songwriter with a nearly perfect bloodline (her father was Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger was her step-mother), Kirsty MacColl had been writing brilliant songs and releasing modestly successful albums since the early '80s. The last time listeners heard from her, on 1993's grim Titanic Days, she had just gone through a painful divorce; she swore that she wouldn't record another album until she could make a happy one. Almost eight years later, she did just that. Tropical Brainstorm is, in part, a celebration of the musical traditions of Cuba, Brazil, and Mexico; mambo and samba rhythms are everywhere, and Latin percussion bumps up against violins, trombones, and nylon-string guitars on almost every track. But the songs' lyrical themes range more broadly -- while "Mambo de la Luna" is all about the flavor of life in Cuba, "England 2, Colombia 0" is a hilarious tale of romantic treachery and "Us Amazonians" a wry depiction of a matriarchal tropical utopia. But even when her lyrics cut to the bone, there's an underlying sense of happiness and good humor that was entirely missing from her last album. And there's the rub. What makes this album so difficult to approach with much critical distance is the fact that MacColl was killed in a boating accident several months after it was completed; she died in the ocean off the coast of Mexico, one of the places that inspired the exuberant and sweet-natured music on this wonderful record. How to listen to this music in the wake of that fact? With grateful joy, one supposes. And with a gentler gratitude that she was this happy at the end of her life -- if Titanic Days had been her last effort, it would have been difficult listening indeed. ~ Rick Anderson
Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (4/27/01, p.118) - "...Captures her earnest fascination with LAtinmusic, but it's just as much a product of her dry British humor....her songs express endless disappointment in love matched to melodies that won't quit..." - Rating: A CMJ (4/30/01, p.28) - "...Inspired largely by Cuban and Brazilian music, with added dazzle from MacColl's pop flair and cheeky wit dancing amid a shower of Latin grooves..."
Distribution
MSI Music Distribution
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Number of discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA

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