Luis Colucci : bass, fretless bass, sampler, synthesizer

Julian De Ambrosio : drums

Damion Lois : flute

Ignacio Lois : acoustic and electric guitars

Guest

Fransisco Huici : sax (on tracks 2 and 9)

experimental jazzrock

Tanger is an instrumental fourpiece from Argentina with all music composed by bassplayer Luis Colucci. Nevertheless one of the main ingredients on offer here is the flute as played by Damian Lois. Due to the often distorted sound of his brother Ignacio’s guitar the music gets an avantgarde flavour injected. More so even when a certain Fransesco Huici is invited to lend his alto saxophone on two tracks. Here the sound becomes rather dark and broody. ‘El ermitano’ is a rather experimental piece which leads itself into jazz territory making it more fun for the musicians than for the listener. Recorded between may 2000 and june 2002 the sound of the flute which gets close to Ian Anderson’s style often clashes with the sound of the guitar as if it concerns two opposite worlds. Throughout this album the drums sound uninspired repeating itself time after time. Also the sound of the guitar tends to be the same which makes this an uninteresting album to listen to. Diversity certainly isn’t on the cards here and twelve almost similar tunes is a little too much of a good thing as you will undoubtedly understand. Luckily in ‘Chacales’ Ignacio Lois switches to acoustic guitar which together with the nice percussion delivers an original work after all. As far as I understand Tanger is a collective of friends who like to spend some time together making music. I guess it was a little too soon for them to record an album so hopefully they will sit back and listen carefully to their endproduct and learn enough lessons so that next time things will sound a lot better.