La Semana | 
| Artist: Ottmar Liebert + Luna Negra
Label: Spiral Subwave Records International LLC
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 8249
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 806403333826
EAN: 0806403333826
ASIN: B0002PYS38
Release Date: March 18, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Carrousel | | • | La Luna (Lunatic Love Letter) | | • | Cocteau | | • | Caballada | | • | Alhambra Jackson | | • | Spring Rain | | • | Longing (6against4) | | • | Underworld | | • | Cave In My Heart | | • | Echoes Of A Caress | | • | Evening (Languid Pace) | | • | Caipira |
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Amazon.com
For the last five years, guitarist Ottmar Liebert has been regurgitating his career: variously re-recording, remixing, and remastering his older songs. Initially, La Semana, which translates as "The Week," sounds like a stylistic return to that early sound. No electronics, orchestras, or smooth jazz combos--only Liebert on multi-tracked guitar with bass, and percussion, just like on Nouveau Flamenco. Songs like "Caroussel" and "La Luna" feature Liebert's upbeat mix of deft, precisely picked melody and flamenco groove. But other tracks, notably "Cocteau," recall the quieter moods of The Hours Between Night & Day. As it moves along, La Semana gets trippy at the edges with snarly electric guitar textures on "Cave in My Heart" and trumpet bleats and backward ambiences on the expansive "Echoes of a Caress." Liebert stretches out on the asymmetric rhythms of "Longing" and creates a minimalist samba with poly-rhythmic palmas (hand-claps) and guitar strums on "Underworld." This is not only Liebert's first album of all-new materiel in five years, it's his most satisfying. --John Diliberto
Product Description
For the last five years, guitarist Ottmar Liebert has been reviewing and reconsidering his career: variously re-recording, remixing, and remastering his older songs. Initially, La Semana, which translates as 'The Week,' sounds like a stylistic return to that early sound. No electronics, orchestras, or smooth jazz combos - only Liebert on multi-tracked guitar with bass, and percussion, just like on Nouveau Flamenco. Songs like Carousel and La Luna feature Liebert's upbeat mix of deft, precisely picked melody and flamenco groove.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Another hit from the guitar God :) August 25, 2004
Adam Solomon (Bellmore, Long Island, NY)
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
If you've never heard of Mr. Liebert and his band Luna Negra, this is the perfect introductory album; if you're a fan of theirs to begin with, then you should know never to expect with a new album anything like what they've done before. "La Semana" is perhaps the deepest and most emotional of the 20+ Ottmar albums recorded in the last decade and a half, and it would make a serious claim to being his best if there were indeed any way to measure his best.
Perhaps the first thing that needs to be said about this album is how it flows as a whole...your typical modern album is simply a collection of loose songs. "La Semana", perhaps even more than any of Ottmar's previous albums, flows amazingly well, as if the whole album were one continuous song that you never want to end...you'll never get tired of this album in the middle, and decide to switch off after, say, track 5. There are perhaps two tracks on the album that I don't much care for ("Echoes of a Caress" and "Evening"), and even those are so beautiful they never warrant switching off the album.
However, the album has its share of individual hits--perhaps so much that almost every song can be considered a "hit". This is one of the few albums I have ever heard where each song really means something, nothing seems to be "filler", and it truly shows. Whenever I make a compilation of Ottmar's best songs for a friend, La Semana always seems to be better represented than any other album for this exact reason, every song is astounding in itself. From the funky rhythyms of "AlhambraJackson", to the lovestruck melodies of "La Luna" and the deep, moody, Moorish atmosphere of "Cocteau", every song stands out on its own and from each other. No two songs sound alike, and each is simply captivating...
"La Semana" represents a completely new step of OL + LN, although in reality every album of theirs does to some degree. The album shows a revert to Mr. Liebert's funk roots of old, which have shown themselves on previous albums, although never to this degree. The band was on the verge of keeping this album confined to their website stores, and considering the nature of today's record companies, it is a gift to the world that they're releasing this to stores. The mixture of funk, flamenco, jazz, bossa nova, rhumba, and more, create a simply undescribable and completely irresistable album that any true lover of music must add to their collection.
The Greatest One Yet August 25, 2004
Carol (Chamberlain, SD USA)
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
This album is a mesmerizing adventure. It takes me to such a variety of places with so many different emotions and feelings. a happy carnival, a night filled with mystery, the lilt of being in a happy place with one I love.
In Cocteau I can imagine I'm a part of a desert caravan or maybe riding an Indian elephant in some glittering procession.
Such variety, from music you just can't sit still to music so deep and touching you must be still because it moves you so deeply and enters so completey that days aferwards that music remains a part of you. I wake in the morning with "Cave in My Heart" still there and I smile. It will be a good day.
The Very Best of Ottmar's Music August 26, 2004
Salma Siddique (Maryland)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Alluring and haunting music which captures your mind, heart and imagination is one way to describe 'La Semana'. It is like a very interesting book which reveals something new with turning of each page. 'La Semana' is like a beautiful painting which you never get tired of seeing day after day.
It's refreshingly original music is the best creation of Ottmar Liebert.
Totally Solid August 26, 2004
Gary Santoro (Arizona)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
The great spirit of music continues with this recording by Ottmar Liebert. The grooves are freely given. Also recommended is the La Semana tour. When listening to the music live, a World Rhythm lives and breathes and makes itself known.
Best album yet!!! August 24, 2004
Eric N
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is by far the best album I've heard from the Luna Negra camp in a couple years. Amazing compositions keep the entire album upbeat and fluid. Ottmar seems to find news ways of reinventing the flamenco guitar while keeping up to date on new computer editing tricks as well. I highly recommend this for anyone to have in the home or office!
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