''Temporal'' is the second album by the Spanish band

Radio Tarifa Radio Tarifa was a Spanish World music ensemble, combining Flamenco, Arab-Andalusian music, Arabic music, Moorish music and other musical influences of the Mediterranean, the Middle Ages and the Caribbean. The name of the ensemble comes from an ...

, released internationally in 1997. The band supported the album with a North American tour.

Production

The album was produced by Fain Dueñas and Vincent Molino; Dueñas was also the musical director. ''Temporal'' incorporates more

flamenco Flamenco (), in its strictest sense, is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and ...

elements into the band's sound. Radio Tarifa used such instruments as the

darbuka The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, darabuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali; arz, دربوكة / Romanized: ) is a single-head membranophone with a goblet- ...

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crumhorn The crumhorn is a double reed instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance period. In modern times, particularly since the 1960s, there has been a revival of interest in early music, and crumhorns are being play ...

, and

ney The ''ney'' ( fa, Ney/نی, ar, Al-Nāy/الناي), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Persian music and Arabic music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. The ney has been played continually ...

. Studio musicians backed Radio Tarifa's three main members. "El Mandil de Carolina" is a traditional Castilian and Galician composition.

Critical reception

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'' wrote that "as is demonstrated by such pieces as the flamenco 'Solea' or 'Conductus', a 12th-century processional, Radio Tarifa also moves assuredly from the cafe to the cathedral." ''

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'' determined that "it's postmodern early music, for want of a funkier phrase, poised, surprising, inspiring, throbbing with percussion and sweeping the listener with Arabic instrumentation and Andalucian voices." ''

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'' concluded that "scholars and romantics alike will be seduced by their soulful vocals, explosive percussion, and superb fretwork." ''

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'' deemed ''Temporal'' "a wonderful combination of Mediterranean styles." The '' St. Paul Pioneer Press'' called it "a dizzy, danceable stew of Afro-Latin rhythms."

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noted that "the ensemble concentrates on traditional material from Iberia, with pieces culled from Galician, Andalucian, Castilian, and Flamenco culture."

Track listing

References

{{reflist 1997 albums Nonesuch Records albums