French-Spanish, Latin Soul and Afrobeats singer-songwriter Manu Chao returns to the fore with Viva Tu ('Long Live You'), a heartwarming Latin ska and worldbeat album dedicated to uncovetable, amicable neighbourly relations between members of the public. After the release of the eponymous lead single, the full record comes now in full cordial force. With its sleepily descendant vocals giving off the sense of a narrator too sunkissed to care, Viva Tu is an al fresco listening experience, one that also nonetheless betrays Chao's seasoned, well-tanned skin in the game. Now 63, this is a comeback album "inspired by (Chao's) travels and people's daily lives", and it hears him hark after something like a universal language, flexing his multilingual chops by singing in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English. All this forms part of Chao's mission to address the various global issues facing humanity today, in such a manner as only he can do best; he treats music as a vehicle for a humanistic global activism, aiming to promote anti-capitalist, antifascist and without-borders content.
- A1 Vecinos En El Mar
- A2 La Couleur Du Temps
- A3 River Why
- A4 Viva Tu
- A5 Heaven's Bad Day
- A6 Tu Te Vas
- A7 Coracao No Mar
- B1 Cuatro Calles
- B2 La Colilla
- B3 Sao Paulo Motoboy
- B4 Tom Et Lola
- B5 Lonely Night
- B6 Tantas Tierras
