Mike DogliottiCandombe For Export / Candombe Lisonew CD Digipack... The complete recordings of Urugayan outstanding organ player Mike Dogliotti, between 1970 and 1972, for the Sondor label. This double pack includes his two full lengths (Candombe For Export and Candombe Liso), plus a few tracks from 7¿ singles. Mike Dogliotti managed...
Mike Dogliotti
Candombe For Export / Candombe Liso
new CD Digipack.
The complete recordings of Urugayan outstanding organ player Mike Dogliotti, between 1970 and 1972, for the Sondor label. This double pack includes his two full lengths (Candombe For Export and Candombe Liso), plus a few tracks from 7¿ singles. Mike Dogliotti managed to give create a commercial version of the Afro-Urugayan rhythms know as ¿candombe music¿, using the very simple but effective formula of combining percussion with Farfisa organ. This will be a true discovery for those who search ¿new¿ and exciting sounds.
THAT IRRESISTIBLE ELECTRONIC ORGAN
Very rarely one manages to discover an artist apparently and largely ignored by web search engines. This is the case of Alberto ¿Mike¿ Dogliotti, a musician who with his Farfisa organ has made a whole generation of young South-Americans dance and who up to date remains in the category of 'awaiting to be discovered' musicians.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1939, Dogliotti began his musical studies at the early age of four. Exclusively focused on classical music, the pianist won a prestigious music competition which allowed him to continue his studies in Europe.
By the 1960s Dogliotti ventures into jazz music and becomes one of the main attractions in the Montevidean jazzy scene. His passion for this genre takes him to enter the Pena de Jazz de Montevideo in 1964, touring several countries and playing at the most exclusive hotels in South America.
In 1967 he was hired to play at the Intercontinental Hotel in Quito, Ecuador. For the job he decides to form a sextet consisting of Daniel "Bachicha" Lencina (trumpet), Tito Caballero (sax, flute and clarinet), Chocho Paolini (tenor-sax), Eduardo Useta (bass and electric guitar) and Santiago Ameijenda (drums) and he recorded with them his first LP (Fiesta en el Hotel Quito) for the Facolor label. In 1968 the same hotel chain offers him to go to Lima, Peru. The artist hires new musicians for the occasion and enters the studio again to record a new album, Mike Dogliotti and his Orchestra, released by MAG label.
By 1970 the musician returns to his home country. The revival of the candombe beat -a new trend which was updating the popular Uruguayan music scene- makes the artist take a different path once again. Dogliotti feels comfortable within this sonic universe and he quickly becomes one of its benchmarks. Taking advantage of the booming of the candombe beat, the pianist experiments with electronic keyboards making the most of his impeccable skills as classical musician and of his creativity for improvisation inherited from his experience as jazz musician. Thanks to his virtuousism, Dogliotti takes the candombe beat to new boundaries, delivering music with his personal stamp where the irresistible sound of his organ shares prominence with the traditional cuerda de tambores (group of drummers playing drums) from the Uruguayan candombe.
He builds up success and becomes a must-be act at the Montevidean clubs. His reputation as musician is such that in 1970 the legendary Sondor label signs him to record Candombe For Export, Dogliotti¿s debut album in his home country featuring a comprehensive repertoire of classic tracks of Uruguayan popular music.
The excellent reception garnered by this release encourages him to record compulsively and just two years later Candombe Liso is released at De la Planta records. It was the same formula, although maybe a little more refined one, and Candombe Liso went on to be Dogliotti¿s best-selling record. Once again, compositions by Ruben Rada, Manolo Guardia and the Fattoruso brothers pass through his sound ¿processor¿, he even attempts with compositions by Pedro Ferreira, one of the most outstanding candombe songwriters.
After exhausting his Latin-American period, Dogliotti decides to try his luck overseas. In 1977 he works temporarily in Majorca and from there he travels to Israel, where he performs at the Sheraton Hotel in Tel Aviv during the following year. Finally, in 1982, Dogliotti settles definitively in Spain. He lived in the Canary Islands where he was respected jazz musician, musical director for TV programmes and music teacher until he suddenly passed away on July 2007.
Angel Atienza
Tracks list
1. Don Pascual
2. Buma Buruma
3. Candela
4. Nunca, Nunca
5. Dona Gregoria
6. Chicalanga
7. Las Manzanas
8. Baile de los Morenos
9. Tierra
10. Siga el Baile
11. El Cable
12. Tingo Tingo
13. Prohibido Tomar Cafe en el Estudio
14. Ahi Va la Comparsa
15. Siempre Tu
16. Negro en Sol Menor
17. Cheche
18. Abuelo Regalame un Tamboril
19. Candombe
20. Chiquillada
21. Biafra
22. Palo y Tamboril
23. Candombe de Mi Ciudad
24. La Llamada
25. Biricunyamba
26. Yacumenza
27. El Candomble
