| Temporal | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Radio Tarifa |
| Cover: | Temporal (Radio Tarifa album).jpg |
| Released: | 1997 |
| Label: | World Circuit[1] Nonesuch[2] |
| Producer: | Fain Dueñas, Vincent Molino |
| Prev Title: | Rumba Argelina |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
| Next Title: | Cruzando el Río |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
Temporal is the second album by the Spanish band Radio Tarifa, released internationally in 1997.[3] [4] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[5]
The album was produced by Fain Dueñas and Vincent Molino; Dueñas was also the musical director.[6] Temporal incorporates more flamenco elements into the band's sound.[7] Radio Tarifa used such instruments as the darbuka, oud, crumhorn, and ney.[8] [9] Studio musicians backed Radio Tarifa's three main members.[10] "El Mandil de Carolina" is a traditional Castilian and Galician composition.
The Washington Post wrote that, "as is demonstrated by such pieces as the flamenco 'Solea' or 'Conductus', a 12th-century processional, Radio Tarifa also moves assuredly from the cafe to the cathedral."[11] The Guardian determined that "it's postmodern early music, for want of a funkier phrase, poised, surprising, inspiring, throbbing with percussion and sweeping the listener with Arabic instrumentation and Andalucian voices."[12]
Guitar Player concluded that "scholars and romantics alike will be seduced by their soulful vocals, explosive percussion, and superb fretwork."[13] The Globe and Mail deemed Temporal "a wonderful combination of Mediterranean styles."[14] The St. Paul Pioneer Press called it "a dizzy, danceable stew of Afro-Latin rhythms."[15]
AllMusic noted that "the ensemble concentrates on traditional material from Iberia, with pieces culled from Galician, Andalucian, Castilian, and Flamenco culture."