I have his first solo album,
Clandestino :-
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Chao then returned to South and Central America, spending the next few years drifting around with his guitar and a four-track, recording here and there. The resultant collection of songs was released in 1998 (1999 in the U.S.) under the title Clandestino and included a reworking of the Mano Negra track "King of Bongo."
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Actually, the method sounds more interesting than the result:
Clandestino is a pleasant but unexceptional album of "Latin Light", enlivened, if that is the word, with bits of recorded tv dialogue, which would`ve been ground-breaking stuff forty years ago.
Manu has a good voice which makes his Spanish lyrics very clear, but
King of Bongo , sung in English, sounds like a rather too calculated attempt to produce a chirpy international cross-over hit. If you`ve got tired of playing that Gypsy Kings album you bought after your Mediterranean holiday,
Clandestino could be the album for you.