Circo Beat
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{{Infobox album
| name = Circo Beat
| type = studio
| artist = Fito Páez
| cover = Circo Beat Album Cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = November 22, 1994
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Rock en español
Argentine rock
| length = 55:12
| language = Spanish
| label = Warner Music
| producer = Fito Páez
Phil Manzanera
| prev_title = Lo mejor de Fito Páez
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = Lo mejor de los mejores – Volumen 1 y 2
| next_year = 1995
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000171806|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]
}}
Circo Beat ("Beat Circus") is the eighth studio album by Argentine musician Fito Páez, released in 1994.
The singles "Mariposa tecknicolor" and "Tema de Piluso" (the latter a tribute to the late comedian from Rosario, Alberto Olmedo) received extensive radio airplay. Although the album came close to matching the success of its predecessor, El amor después del amor, it ultimately sold only about half as many copies. Nevertheless, it became the second best-selling album of Páez's career and the third best-selling album in Argentina in 1995, with 350,000 copies sold. The album was produced by Phil Manzanera, guitarist for the British rock band Roxy Music and for the second phase of Pink Floyd, after Roger Waters left the group.
A version of the album, titled Circo Beat Brasil, was also released, featuring three tracks adapted into Portuguese by Herbert Vianna (the first two) and Thedy Correa (the last one). This version includes special duet performances: "Mariposa tecknicolor" with Caetano Veloso, "She's Mine" with Djavan, and "Nas luzes de Rosario" (an adaptation of "Tema de Piluso") with Herbert Vianna of Paralamas.[https://www.discogs.com/es/Fito-P%C3%A1ez-Circo-Beat/release/7884157 Circo-Beat (Doble CD) en ]Discogs
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Fito Páez
| title1 = Circo Beat [Beat Circus]
| length1 = 5:44
| title2 = Mariposa tecknicolor [Technicolor Butterfly]
| length2 = 3:43
| title3 = Normal 1
| length3 = 3:00
| title4 = Las tardes del sol, las noches del agua [The Afternoons of the Sun, the Nights of Water]
| length4 = 5:46
| title5 = Tema de Piluso [Piluso's Theme]
| length5 = 4:11
| title6 = She's Mine
| length6 = 4:33
| title7 = El jardín donde vuelan los mares [The Garden Where the Seas Fly]
| length7 = 5:59
| title8 = Nadie detiene al amor en un lugar [No One Stops Love in a Place]
| length8 = 2:19
| title9 = Si Disney despertase [If Disney Woke Up]
| length9 = 3:47
| title10 = Soy un hippie [I Am a Hippie]
| length10 = 4:26
| title11 = Dejarlas partir [Let Them Go]
| length11 = 3:06
| title12 = Lo que el viento nunca se llevó [Never Gone with the Wind]
| length12 = 4:18
| title13 = Nada del mundo real [Nothing from the Real World]
| length13 = 4:41
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Sales
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Personnel
Performers
- Fito Páez – vocals, acoustic guitar, pianos, hammond, clavinet, electric keyboard
- Gabriel Carámbula – acoustic and electric guitars
- Gringui Herrera – acoustic and electric guitars, and pedal steel guitar
- Guillermo Vadalá – bass, acoustic guitar, double bass
- Geoff Dugmore: drums, bass drum and tambourin on "Dejarlas partir"
- Tweety González – accordion, piano, electric keyboard
Guest musicians
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- Fabiana Cantilo – vocals; gremlins on "El jardín donde vuelan los mares"; chorus on all other songs
- Fena Della Maggiora – vocals on "El jardín donde vuelan los mares"
- Liliana Herrero – vocals on "Las tardes del sol, las noches del agua"
- Claudia Puyó – gremlis on "El jardín donde vuelan los mares"
- Fabián Gallardo – acoustic guitar on "Dejarlas partir"
- Laura Vázquez – electric keyboard
- Alina Gandini – electric keyboard
- Pilo – harmonica on "Circo beat"
- Toots Thielemans – harmonica on "Las tardes del sol, las noches del agua" and "She's mine"
- Osvaldo Fattoruso – drums on "Las tardes del sol, las noches del agua" and "Nadie detiene al amor en un lugar"
- The Kick Horns – winds on "Circo beat"
- Simon Clark – saxophones: alto and baritone, flute
- Tim Sanders – tenor saxophone
- Simon Gardner – trombone
- Roddy Lorimer – trumpet
- Neil Sidwell – trombone
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References
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