Editorial Review:

Album Description:
With the same weathered charm and deep history as their Buena Vista bretheren, the Gipsy Kings use the simplest tools to make music that can move your feet, your heart and your soul.

Amazon.com:
With the feeling of an old-fashioned, locally produced radio show picked up accidentally while touring through the Andes, the Kings’ latest excursion into their patented high-spirited rumba-flamenca harbors a strong South American bias, complete with a chiming charango (armadillo-shell lute) and vintage-sounding squeezeboxes. They also send a big, wet smooch to the late, lamented original Buena Vista Social Club with a delightful cover of Chan Chan. Although less slick than much of their earlier catalog, the set list presented here is also far from rustic and still fairly restaurant-friendly, with kicking bass lines, applied echoes, rhythmic augmentation (as though these guys needed any!) and plenty of other tech-oriented touches; but happily, these don’t get in the way. The leather-lunged yet suavely romantic vocals are as soulful as ever, the guitars as round-toned yet insistent, and the handclaps as festive. But the real good news is that the band seems to have recovered both their primal chops and their sense of humor. Marred only by very occasional bits of over-production and a remarkably chintzy running-time of just over 45 minutes, the album is very nearly perfect, an effervescently virile project that continues and consolidates the career-reviving upswing begun with Roots, back in 2004. --Christina Roden









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Disc 1:

1. Si Tu Me Quieres
2. Pueblos
3. Mira La Chica - Gipsy Kings, Eidel, Philippe
4. Café
5. Chan Chan - Gipsy Kings, Répilado, Francisco
6. Canastero
7. Donde Esta Mi Amor
8. Amor
9. La Tounga
10. Sol y Luna
11. Guaranga
12. Pasajero
13. Recuerdos a Zucarados
14. La Vida de Gipsy

Customer Reviews

Average Rating:

Rating: - * Gipsie Kings - Pasajero ... quality of the recording is not very good. Would not purchase another CD from this company. Rating: - * Not the Reyes ... This is not the Gypsy kings of yore. If you want the authentic groove of the material that made them who they are, this is not the disc for you. This music is good, and it is part of their natural evolution as artists, but it does not exude the fire and passion of their folky and latin work at the end of the last century. Rating: - * There's a party in my car... ... I bought this CD when I needed some music to liven up a long drive. I'd bought a few others as well, but Pasajero's driving beats and hook-y melodies proved so entertaining that it spent far more time in the CD slot than any of its more mundane companions. What fun--it made me want to *bailar* and *cantar* at the wheel. It had been a long time since I'd listened to the Gypsy Kings, and I'd forgotten their fine party spirit. I am once again a Gypsy-jero. Susan O'Neill Author, Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Viet Nam Rating: - * Too mellow ... Its not a great CD compared to many others from their past.. Its very mellow and has no upbeat songs to compare to Volare or Bamboleo, which of course would be difficult to top. I was a bit dissapointed - there's just no highs and lows on the CD. Rating: - * Love this music ... I have always been a fan of the Gipsy Kings, I have most of their CD's, and this one does not disappoint! They are the best.