IVI sic; Global Pulse EDITED BY TOM FERGUSON tferguson @eu.billboard.COm Everything Rosy In Zero 7's Garden Having started their musical careers in the 1990s as "gofers" Gotan Project issued its debut set "La Revancha del Tango" in at a London recording studio, Henry Binns and Sam Hardaker 2001 on band member Philippe Cohen -Solal's own label Ya Basta. have long since blossomed into full- fledged artists as elec- Label manager Laurent Dubrulle claims global shipments have tronica act Zero 7. passed 1 million copies. Atlantic Records issued the duo's third album The Sophomore album "Lunático" (Ya Basta) was issued interna- Garden" internationally May 22, with a U.S. release tionally April 11, licensed in France to Barclay /Universal. due June 6. Dubrulle claims 60,000 domestic sh pments, with U.S. and U.K. Zero 7 launched a U.K. tour booked by Primary Tal- shipments through XL /Beggars at 25,000 and 15,000, respec- ent International May 25, featuring Swedish folk /pop tively. " Lunático" peaked at No. 6 cn Billboard's European Al- artist Jose Gonzalez as guest vocalist. Nine European bums chart on April 26. shows supporting James Blunt will follow in July Dubrulle says the international campaign for " Lunático" will ahead ofan Aug. 27 headline set at the KCRW World largely rely on word -of- mouth. "There will be very little mar- Festival at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl. keting, except in France where Barclay has TV and poster ads," Gonzalez is a featured vocalist on "The Garden." he notes. Although largely unknown at the time of recording, Gotan Project's publishing is through Ya Basta /Science he is a hot property in Europe and his album "Veneer" & Mélodie. -Aymeric Pichevin (Peacefrog) is BPI -certified platinum (300,000 U.K. _ shipments). AUSSIE DIVAS: Four past " Australian Idol" contestants London -based Atlantic U.K. VP of international have teamed up as the Young Divas for a national tour Down Torsten Luth claims "The Garden" represents real growth Under: Sony BMG- signed DeAl-augo, Curuenavull and for Zero 7. He admits Gonzalez' involvement "has def- Williams are managed by Sydney -based David Caplice Man- initely helped coverage in the U.K. and parts of Europe," agement. Coulter is signed to Me bourne -based label /man- but notes that "he's hardly known by the rest ofthe world - agement firm Public Opinion. and the album stands on its own." "We found it challenging to launch major concerts for them in- Zero 7 is signed to Universal Music Publishing. dividually," David Caplice admits. "W a felt that by putting them to- -Steve Adams gether, we'd create a 'supergroup' and maybe bring all their fans out for a significant tour across Australia." TANGO STEPS: Paris -based French /Swiss /Argentine act The act's cover of Donna Summer's 1989 hit "This Time I Know Electronica act Gotan Project is taking its tango /electronica fusion on the road. It's for Real" (Sony BMG) entered the Australian Recording Indus- ZERO 7 will be touring the United The trio kicks off European theater and festival shows June try Assn. chart at No. 7 on May 14. The Divas publicly insist the tour Kingdom, Europe 17 in Zagreb, Croatia, taking in 14 countries before ending Oct. is a one -off, as Curuenavull and DeAraugo have solo releases out and the States this 20 in Marseille, France. Booker is Paris Alias. Pro- summer. -based Gotan shortly. But Caplice says an album is possible if the 30,000- ticket ject will also play the KRCW World Festival alongside Zero 7. tour sells out. -Christie Eliezer Classical Sccie Osvaldo Golijov's opera 'Ainadamar' features, ANASTASIA TSIOULCAS [email protected] from left, soprano JESSICA RIVERA, mezzo - soprano KELLEY O'CONNOR and soprano Golijov's Opera A Hit DAWN UPSHAW (lying At first blush, a new opera orchestration, Golijov embroi- he explains, "it's because I Upshaw's enthusiasm meditating on the life and ders the guitar and cante need to evoke a certain emo- seems to be shared by audi- death of Spanish poet/play- jondo ( "deep song ") idioms tion, not because the music is ences, programmers and wright Federico Garcia Lorca of traditional flamenco with 'flamenco.' I modulate be- critics alike. This summer will seems an unlikely choice to lilting Afro -Cuban grooves tween cultures. I use them in see a broad sweep of Goli- be 3 chart hit. However, Os- and hypnotic field recordings the same way that other com- jov performances. These in- valdo Golijov's "Ainadamar" made in Chiapas, Mexico. posers use tonal areas or clude 1996's "Last Round" at is precisely that. Born in Argentina to an modulate from key to key." the Seattle Symphony and Feleased last month by Eastern European Jewish Upshaw, a frequent muse at Germany's Schleswig -Hol- Deutsche Grammophon, the family, the 45- year -old com- for Golijov, sings the role of stein Festival, as well as opera's world -premiere re- poser is intimately familiar Margarita Xirgu in "Ainadamar." 2002's "Three Songs for So- cording features soprano with the notion of shifting She says that what he asks of prano and Orchestra," fea- Dawn Upshaw, mezzo -soprano identity, whether he is con- her technically and emotionally turing Upshaw, which the Kelley O'Connor and soprano templating his own or other has changed the way she ap- Minnesota Orchestra and Jessica Rivera alongside the people's. "There are very few proaches her own art. conductor Osmo Vanska will Atlanta Symphony Orchestra isolated places in the world "There's an honesty and a perform at Amsterdam's and conductor Robert Spano, today," Golijov observes. "So beauty in his music," Upshaw Concertgebouw and the a longtime Golijov champion. identity- whether cultural, re- says thoughtfully. "Working London Proms. Its sales success mirrors that ligious or musical -is a very with him has put me in a posi- This August, Yo -Yo Ma will of DG's first Golijov release fluid concept." tion where I am looking at my give the world premiere of last year of the song cycle He notes that his extraordi- own life and my own music in Golijov's new work for cello "Ayre," which also put Up- nary palette of musical colors a different way, and I am ask- and orchestra with the Boston shaw front and center. and idioms on which he draws ing myself different questions, Symphony Orchestra and Amid his gorgeous lyrical is part of that fluidity. "When because I'm so moved by conductor Donald Runnicles lines and brilliantly colored I use flamenco, for instance," what he is doing." at Tanglewood. 36 JUNE 10, 2006 www.americanradiohistory.com.