{"id":26111,"date":"2011-08-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riffsandbeats.com\/sin-categoria\/polo-pan-charanga\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T07:44:59","slug":"polo-pan-charanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riffsandbeats.com\/es\/criticas\/canciones\/polo-pan-charanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Polo & Pan – Charanga"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Carrossel Do Tempo, autumn 2023: brass, kids’ choir, dancefloor<\/h3>\n

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In October 2023, French duo Polo & Pan – Paul Armand-Delille and Alexandre Grynszpan – released Charanga<\/em> as a single (5 October) and as track three on the Carrossel Do Tempo<\/em> EP (6 October). The collaborators are credited clearly: Les Poppys, the French children’s choir known since the early 1970s, and Isaac et Nora. The label chain is Hamburger Records \/ Ekler, distributed by Virgin Music France. The EP also holds Carrossel Do Tempo<\/em> (with Abr\u00e3o), Chamallow<\/em>, and Nagori<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Polo & Pan built their name on bright, sample-rich dance music that borrows from French variety, tropical rhythms, and film-like melodies – from the 2014 Dorothy<\/em> EP through Caravelle<\/em> and later albums. Charanga<\/em> fits that lane: a mid-tempo dance pulse around 119 BPM, brass and percussion hints in the title’s Cuban sense of a festive band, and group vocals that sound like a street party rather than a club whisper.<\/p>\n

Les Poppys bring the high, clear choir tone French listeners already associate with nostalgia and playground energy. Isaac et Nora add another vocal colour. Underneath, Polo & Pan keep the drums simple and the bass warm so the chant can sit on top without clutter. The lyric calls out to pull out the charanga and pachanga – dance language aimed at bodies in a room, not at headphones alone. The mix leaves space between percussion hits so the choir can punch through a festival PA.<\/p>\n

By late 2023 the duo were deep into a run of colourful EPs and singles between albums, treating the dancefloor as a place for guests and jokes as much as for long mixes. Putting a historic French children’s choir on a Latin-titled electronic track is typical of their humour: familiar voices in an unexpected room.<\/p>\n

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Saca la charanga \/ Arremanga la manga \/ Que la baile Nicol\u00e0s \/ Que la baile Mariana<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(Polo & Pan, Les Poppys, Isaac et Nora \u2014 lyric excerpt from Charanga, 2023)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Streaming platforms filed the track under electronic and dance; the EP packaging keeps the playful visual language of their recent work. Live, the song works as a communal shout: easy to learn, hard to stand still through. It does not reinvent Polo & Pan; it extends the carnival side of their catalogue with named guests who make the party literal.<\/p>\n

Play the 2023 Carrossel Do Tempo<\/em> version. That is the original release: Hamburger \/ Ekler \/ Virgin, Les Poppys and Isaac et Nora in the credits, and a dance track built to move a crowd rather than to decorate a remaster campaign.<\/p>\n

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