Azul is the fourth album by Argentine rock band Los Piojos

Los Piojos

Los Piojos were a rock band from Argentina, highly popular, and one of the seminal bands of the 1990s Argentine suburban rock movement.As with most suburban rock bands, their formative sound owes a significant amount to the style of the Rolling Stones...

, recorded at Del Cielito Records studio and released in 1998. This work mixes candombe

Candombe

Candombe is a musical genre that has its roots in the African Bantu, and is proper of Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil .Uruguayan Candombe is the most practiced and spread internationally and has been recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity...

 and murga

Murga

Murga is a form of popular musical theatre performed in Uruguay and in Argentina during the Carnival season. Murga groups operate in Montevideo and at the Buenos Aires Carnival, though to a lesser extent than in Montevideo; the Argentine murga is more centred on dancing and less on vocals than the...

 with the traditional rhythms used by the band and was presented live in Parque Sarmiento and at the All Boys

All Boys

Club Atlético All Boys is a sports club based in the Floresta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The institution is mostly known by its football team, which currently plays at the Primera División, the top division of Argentine football league system....

 stadium.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Victor W. Valdivia awarded the album 4 stars stating "Los Piojos are amazingly eclectic in their approach to music... they incorporate reggae and Caribbean rhythms, but they also show an influence of classic rock and alternative. That's not to say that they don't explore their Latin roots on various instances... The lyrics are also wide-ranging, veering from nakedly revealing self-portraits to Michael Stipe-like inscrutability. As diverse as the album gets, though, nothing ever feels forced or contrived. Azul is the only one of Los Piojos' four albums available in the U.S, but it is a superb introduction to their talent and may inspire listeners to seek out their earlier releases.".

Track listing

All tracks by Andrés Ciro Martínez except were noted

1. "Vals inicial" [Initial Waltz] (Gustavo H. Kupinski, Martinez) – 5:58
2. "El balneario de los doctores crotos" [The useless doctors spa] – 4:02
3. "Genius" [Genius] – 4:12
4. "A ver cuando" [Let's see when] (Martinez, Miguel Angel Rodriguez) – 4:58
5. "Desde lejos no se ve" [You can't see from far] (Dani Buira, Kupinski, Martinez) – 4:39
6. "Sucio can" [Dirty dog] – 3:29
7. "El Rey del Blues (B. B. King)" [Blues King (B.B. King)] – 4:02
8. "Y quemás" [And you burn] – 4:50
9. "Agua" [Water] – 4:58
10. "Buenos tiempos" [Good times] (Buira, Kupinski, Martinez) – 3:58
11. "Go negro go" [Go negro go] – 5:05
12. "Uoh pa pa pa" [Uoh pa pa pa] (Martinez, Piti) – 3:03
13. "Quemado" [Burned] – 5:39
14. "Murguita" [Little murga] – 3:30
15. "Olvídate (Ya ves)" [Forget it (you see)] – 4:15
16. "Finale" [Final] – 1:25

Personnel

• Abraham Becker – violin
• Miguel Angel Bertero – violin
• Adrián Bilbao – engineer, mixing, recording technician, sampling
• Dani Buira – drums, percussion
• Javier Casalla – violin
• Juan Cruz De Urquiza – trumpet
• Alejandro Elijovich – violin
• Ciro Fogliatta – organ
• Chris Gehringer – mastering
• Andrés Ciro Martínez – cornet, backing vocals, guitar, harmonic, vocals
• Andrés Mayo – editing
• Carlos Nozzi – cello
• Martin Pomares – production assistant
• Juan "Pollo" Raffo – arranger, backing vocals, strings, director, organ
• Humberto Ridolfi – violin
• Pablo Rodríguez – sax, sax
• Mario Tenreyro – corno D
• Alfredo Toth – producer
• Patricio Villarejo – cello
• Washington Williman – violin