Fisherman's Walkband - Fiesta Mundial
Blue Flame  (1996)
Latin Rock

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7*
CD  47:22
13 tracks
   01   Gambajillo             02:31
   02   Cool Angel             04:09
   03   Fiesta Mundial             03:46
   04   Rain Prelude             00:40
   05   Rain In Spain             03:42
   06   Into The Blues             04:00
   07   Joe Fernando             04:38
   08   Guitarra Borracha             01:40
   09   Tocamos             04:55
   10   Strange Days             04:00
   11   Danger In Paradise             05:44
   12   Hotel Belle Etoile             03:56
   13   Gambajillo (Instrumental)             03:41
Personal Details
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Country Germany
Cat. Number 398 40912
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Notes
submitted by Brill, Kornwestheim, Germany

Artist: Fisherman's Walkband
Album: Fiesta Mundial
Label: Blue Flame

Fisherman's Walkband: Fiesta Mundial
Blue Flame, Nr. 398 40912 CD 1996


Current band name is Agua Loca (www.agualoca.de)


Band Information

"There is probably no other band around, that is able to connect
Latin-American and Mediterranian rhythm with Rock in such a perfect way.."
(Stuttgarter Zeitung - local press review)
English and Spanish - the global language in popular music - and not just since Latin, Salsa and Socca have been celebrating their resurrection. Agua Loca master both in perfection. Even during the times while Peter Schick (bandleader and guitar player) was bound more to Blues and Rock, they were already singing bilingual.

Back then, Peter Schick prefered to play Rock riffs on his electric guitar, which he still does in tracks such as the soul-ballad "Love Will Come". Now-a-days he often exchanges these passages with his acoustic guitar, just as he prefered to do in his duo project Sol 10 years ago. Even back then, Carlos Santana was one of his greatest idols and just like him, Peter Schick always liked to go two ways: the electric, harsh energetic Rock, the melody and vitality and the smooth and elusive groove of the Latin sound.

The new album is by far, the best fusion of Flamenco, Reggae, Salsa, Socca and traces of Rock on a Blues basis. It was an absolute "must" to put Peter Green's "Black Magic Woman" on the album, naturally playing it in Agua Loca style - a sound of strong modernized rhythm, in which the instrumentalist Schick and Uli Frank (keyboards) interpret the original with their own personal touch. It's not Carlos Santana, that swings the guitar here, but Peter Schick - "Germany's best Santana" - as critics have written. Thus the album is not just an example of Crossover, it is also the sounding evidence, that Agua Loca have developed their own style. It's also danceable, with grooves easily spun around - just the way it sounds, when top musicians, such as Lenny Mac Dowell on flute or Birgit van Straelen on percussion play easy sounding tunes professionally. The album is definitely an up-to-date production - modern sequences compliment ecstatic hand-clapping, rap artist (Jason Funky Dregz) takes over the singing from Ryno and Gina Regina after they show their bilingual soul power in songs like "Love Will Come" or "Feeling Good". Castanet-Pop in "Islands Of Spain" and "La Plazuela" are discharged by the radio mix "Venga Tia Mia" - a simple and earwiggy song with rap-parts to it. The continuous specialty of the album is, the complex rhythms and stratified arrangements and the knowledge of a music, that is simple and danceable and completely "Un Poco Loco" - a little bit crazy - in English or Spanish.

Michael Riediger - October 2002


Line Up
Peter Schick: electric guitar, vocals
Regine "Tina" Riegel: lead and backing vocals
Hartmut "Mr." Ryno: lead and backing vocals
Uli "Rodriguez" Frank: keyboards, backing vocals
Martin Kiemes: saxophones, hand percussion
Norbert"ino" Schubert: congas and percussion
Roberto D'Agostino: timbales and percussion
Hacki Muller: electric bass
Helmut Kipp: drums