Name: Area 52
Brand: Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

RWXLP100

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Colour

Blue

Colour details

Sky Blue/Red Splattered

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Remastered Double 140 Gram Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with a 12" x 12" Colour Inser

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

196006609573

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Total Cap

2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Genre GB

Latin / South American 

Label GB

Rubyworks

Rodrigo y Gabriela are a Mexican musical duo specializing in playing fast, rhythmic acoustic guitars. The duo met in Mexico City while playing in a thrash metal band and later moved to Europe where they gained considerable acclaim. They settled in Dublin, Ireland, where they honed their sound by performing live gigs and busking on the streets. Their breakthrough came when they were approached by Damien Rice to support the Irish music festival Oxegen. Since then, they have toured extensively across the United Kingdom and beyond.

Area 52 features Rodrigo y Gabriela songs rearranged and rerecorded with a 13 piece Cuban band. Area 52 is the duo's first recorded collaboration with another group of musicians; a thirteen piece cuban orchestra composed of some of havana's finest young players, collectively known as c.u.b.a. On Area 52 Rodrigo y Gabriela revisit nine of their compositions and reinterpret them in a new and dramatic fashion; this is Rodrigo y Gabriela as they have never been heard before. Guests on the album include Anoushka Shankar on sitar, rock drummer John Tempesta (the Cult, White Zombie, Testament) on two tracks, jazz bass player Carles Benavent (Miles Davis, Paco de Lucia, Chick Corea) on two tracks, Palestinian group Le Trio Joubran and Samuel Formell Alfonso from Los Van Van.

Area 52

Music GB

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