TabaréLeyton´s 15-track album “Charrúa” is a good blend of different music styles and
atmospheres. Several songs have a nylon string guitar as the dominant
instrument, others were interpreted with a classical rock ensemble. Some piano
licks here and there, a violin and the bandoneon – and always the warm and
characteristic voice of this outstanding singer from Montevideo, living in
Paris (France).
Max Masri,
producer-composer of the electrotango ensemble Tanghetto noticed the singer and produced his second album, too. Masri´s
beautiful hymn “Montevideo” is definitely one of my favorite tracks (listen
also to the elegant but much too short bandoneon solo, and you know what I mean).
Leyton
attracts our attention also as good songwriter; five songs were written by him,
one further with Max Masri. Leyton´s relaxed vals “Nada para ofrecer” has
definitely something to offer.
The styles on
this album range from rocking pop songs to classical folk oriented songs, and
in-between the dancefloor suited “No va más” (performed with percussionist-composer-singer
Ruben Rada from Montevideo and Tanghetto
from Buenos Aires) and the classical tango “Arrabal Amargo” written by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo Le Pera. The rocking “Charrúa” was
performed with the rock singer-guitar player Emiliano Brancciari and Masri´s Tangocrisis. A further, different facet
is “Como siempre” which surprises with a great salsa feeling.
I can
definitely recommend this album with its versatile facets of good music, and Tabaré Leyton as an outstanding and very relaxed singer (with dark sunglasses, of
course).