Area 52 (CD+DVD)

Rod & Gab songs rearranged and rerecorded with a 13-piece Cuban band.
The album is called 'Area 52' because they felt like Mulder & Scully while recording it (experimenting, new frontiers, etc). 'Area 52' is their first recorded collaboration with another group of musicians; a thirteen piece Cuban orchestra composed of some of Havana's finest young players, collectively known as C.U.B.A. On 'Area 52' Rodrigo y Gabriela revisit nine of their compositions and reinterpret them in a new and dramatic fashion; this is Rodrigo y Gabriela as they have never been heard before. Guests on the album include Anoushka Shankar on sitar, rock drummer John Tempesta (The Cult, White Zombie,
Testament) on two tracks, jazz bass player Carles Benavent (Miles Davis, Paco De Lucia, Chick Corea) on two tracks, Palestinian group Le Trio Joubran and Samuel Formell Alfonso from Los Van Van. Rodrigo y Gabriela have sold in excess of 1.2 million albums; earlier this year they collaborated with Hans Zimmer on 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'. They have sold out world tours that span London to Los Angeles, Paris to Tokyo and Dublin to Sydney. In recent years they have worked with Robert Trujillo from Metallica, Zack De La Rocha from Rage Against The Machine, Al Di Meola, Alex Skolnick from Testament and Strunz & Farah.