Manu Chao: RADIO La Colifata

My musical savior, Manu Chao has just dropped an album for a psychiatric hospital that uses media as therapy:

For the past five years he’s been working with La Colifata, a Buenos Aires–based radio station run out of a psychiatric hospital that uses media as therapy. “With the help of a few friends, the patients decided to launch this radio station to express themselves. To relieve everything they have inside, and to speak to the world,” the singer has said.

Moved by their stories, he decided to produce a benefit album recorded by the station’s members. The result is La Colifata, 20 songs about everything from loneliness and love to tango and the pope, available here for a small donation that is completely up to you. If you need further proof of his unique relationship with the hospital’s residents, check out the video for “Rainin’ In Paradize,” which features an appearance by “Los Califatos,” as they’re known:



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Album tracklist
01 - Intro (0:06)
02 - Sabias Palabras (0:06)
03 - Sabias Palabras (1:21)
04 - La locura del Sol (1:44)
05 - Habemus Papa (2:09)
06 - Habemus Papa (0:06)
07 - La Virgen del Matadero (1:24)
08 - La Virgen del Matadero (0:06)
09 - La Virgen del Matadero (1:44)
10 - El Crucigrama (1:47)
11 - Pequeña Ala (1:25)
12 - Pequeña Ala (0:53)
13 - Hablando al Mundo_ El Aten (2:46)
14 - Hablando al Mundo_ La Paz (0:44)
15 - Hablando al Mundo_ La Paz (1:34)
16 - El Borda Tango Club_ Garde (0:10)
17 - Madres (5:38)
18 - El Garrafero_ Todas la Muj (3:26)
19 - El Garrafero_ Todas la Muj (0:06)
20 - Mucha Locura_ La despedida (1:11)
21 - Nada Cambió (1:13)
22 - y mañana que (0:05)