RADIO TARIFA

Radio Tarifa was formed by percussionist Faín S Dueñas, vocalist Benjamín Escoriza and flautist Vincent Molino, who were drawn together by a common passion for, and desire to experiment with, the underlying foundations of Mediterranean music. Radio Tarifa take their name from the imaginary radio station of Tarifa, the town situated on the southernmost tip of Spain, the closest European point to Africa in a kind of no-man’s land suspended between the Arabic and Mediterranean worlds - a perfect metaphor for the band.

Fiebre

• Radio Tarifa
• WCD 066
• Indigo

"Fiebre" captures the dynamism of the live show and takes us on a musical journey spanning the last ten years of Radio Tarifa. It features ten new interpretations of songs from their last three albums, plus two new songs specially written for this album. 

"Fiebre" is Radio Tarifa at their purest and most exhilarating, as they play live to an audience which responds with equal passion to their music, allowing the musicians the liberty to explore ideas, improvise and experiment with sound and tempo. 

Cruzando El Río

• Radio Tarifa
• WCD 026
• Indigo

The three are in charge of everything: the music, the lyrics, the orchestration and the performing. Vicente is in charge of the wind section. Faín, of the musical direction, the arrangements, percussion and strings. Benjamín adds the vocals and those lyrics of his which almost improve upon the texts of the flamenco Romancero tradition. They multiply, grow, expand. Like in the first track, “Osú”, which sometimes sounds Colombian, with its fast beat, sometimes like a cumbia. Stuck in a garage in Delicias street in Madrid they work like alchemists, blending and mixing until they find the secret potion; as if they were magicians, surprising us, never letting us see their tricks. But above all, they work slowly, very slowly, as if they were the purest crafstmen of the most impure music.