Mano Negra

Mano Negra
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Styles: Rock en Español, French Rock
Group Members: Santiago el Aguil..., Manu Chao, Tonio Chao
Biography: Named in honor of an Andalucian anarchist group, Mano Negra emerged from the same Parisian artists' scene which also gave rise to the like-minded Les Negresses Vertes, drawing equal influence from the punk ethos of the Clash and the multitude of sounds and rhythms endemic to the global music community. ...Read full biography
Casa Babylon
Released: 1994
Label: EMI
Critics' Rating:
Manu Chao's road to Clandestino and Proxima Estación: Esperanza begins here with Mano Negra's swan song album. Conceptually, it marks the first use of radio and TV broadcast samples to create sound collages ...Read full review
Patchanka
Released: 1992
Label: EMI
Critics' Rating:
The debut from Mano Negra is more than a band wanting to be the Clash. It's the sound of a band becoming the Clash (it compresses all the musical sprawl of Sandinista! into a single disc), then going on ...Read full review
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