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Frida
(2002)
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Elliot Goldenthal
There is always a question, when a composer works on a project set in a culture of which he or she is not actually a part, a project intended for an audience that goes beyond that culture, how closely the composer should hew to the music of the culture itself. Broadway composers, for example, often have employed musical motifs and an instrument or ...
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Border (La Linea)
(2001)
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Lila Downs
Lila Downs' second release for Narada World reflects her continuing fascination with Mexican-American border culture. Considering her own mixed heritage (she is the child of a Mixtec Indian and an American), Downs has a special interest here, and it shows in the emotional, directed singing of Border (La Linea). On the first few tracks, Downs' ...
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Canto
(2001)
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Los Super Seven
Canto, the second album from the all-star Los Super Seven, begins with a mellow, Habanera-influenced groove and the suave vocal incantations of Raul Malo. It's a luring introduction to a CD that offers up one superb song after another. The follow-up to their Grammy award-winning 1998 self-titled debut, Los Super Seven's Canto projects the ...
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Frenesi
(1992)
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Linda Ronstadt
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Worksongs
(2003)
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Quetzal
If Martha Gonzales -- one of Quetzal's lead vocalists -- decided to become a full-time soul or urban contemporary singer, she would probably have a bright future in the R&B field. Gonzales has a very soul-influenced vocal style, and she's quite expressive. But then, someone as eclectic as Gonzales would probably be selling herself short if she ...
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Putumayo Presents: Mexico
(2001)
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Various Artists
Putumayo planned the release of Putumayo Presents: Mexico to be in time for the first Cinco de Mayo celebration of the 21st Century. The sampling is suitably festive from this rich land of song. A true melting pot of indigenous and imported sounds, Putumayo Presents: Mexico distills German polkas, the seducing balladry of the Cuban bolero, and ...
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Mi Jardin Azul: Las Canciones Favoritas
(2004)
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Linda Ronstadt
Mi Jardin Azul: Las Canciones Favoritas is a collection culled from Linda Ronstadt's three Spanish-language recordings: Canciones de Mi Padre (1988), Mas Canciones (1990), and Frenesi (1992). In addition, it features the self-penned cut "Mi Ranchito" from the 1976 album Hasten Down the Wind. While the compilation contains no new tracks, its issue ...
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Los Super Seven
(1998)
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Los Super Seven
Combining elements from Los Lobos, the Texas Tornados, and Texas country, Los Super Seven finds common ground in the music of the Lone Star State. Full of Mexican-American traditional tunes, it includes a cover of Woody Guthrie's "Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)" sung by Joe Ely. Ely, along with Doug Sahm, Freddy Fender, David Hidalgo, Cesar ...
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La Bamba: Sones Jarochos From Veracruz
(2003)
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Jose Gutierrez & Los Hermanos Ochoa
The title track from Smithsonian Folkways' La Bamba: Sones Jarochos From Veracruz is the instantly recognizable Mexican folk song (originally from the early 1800s) made popular in the '50s by Ritchie Valens, but here it is transported back to its roots as a son jarocho (a type of lively rural folk song from Veracruz). Chiming harp melodies rolling ...
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Explorer Series: Mexico - Fiestas of Chiapas and Oaxaca
(2003)
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Various Artists
Mexico's southern provinces were still extremely rural in 1976, when this set was first released -- and remain so today. And in rural societies tradition tends to linger. This fiesta music has a rugged beauty about it, and a celebratory fervor that starts on "Son Sventa N'Ahaul San Lorenzo," where the fireworks exploding over the village can ...
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Corridos
(2007)
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Brazeros Musical de Durango
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En Vivo
(2000)
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Banda Pequeños Musical
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Greatest Hits Duranguenses 2000-2005
(2006)
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Various Artists
Celebrating the music of northern Mexico, Greatest Hits Duranguenses 2000-2005 is a collection of 20 songs that shows the direction the genre has taken. The traditional instruments -- accordion, trumpets, and tubas -- are all there, though some of the tracks also include drum kits and keyboards, like "Leña Verde," "Lástima Es Mi Mujer," and the ...
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Soneros Jarochos
(2006)
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Grupo Mono Blanco
While Grupo Mono Blanco's Soneros Jarochos will strike most listeners as traditional Mexican music recorded during an earlier era, it was in fact recorded in 1989-1990. Grupo Mono Blanco was formed in the late '70s by Gilberto Gutierrez Silva with the express purpose of reviving an older style of traditional music (known as "son Jarocho") that had ...
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The Roots of the Narcocorrido
(2004)
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Various Artists
While it might seem a bit disconcerting to the average law-abiding citizen of the United States, narcocorrido has celebrated everything from the smuggling of contraband to drugs from south of the border. The Roots of the Narcocorrido offers a background, in essence, a way to understand why one culture might exalt what another condemns. "El Corrido ...
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Azucena
(2007)
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Azucena del Campo
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Hasta el Final
(2007)
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La Banda Pequeños Musical
The banda boom of the '90s and 2000s brought considerable diversity to banda, which has been combined with everything from hip-hop to reggae to salsa. Banda star Jenni Rivera (who usually performs en español ) has even recorded a banda version of Gloria Gaynor's 1979 disco anthem "I Will Survive." Of course, there are some purists who believe ...
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Lo Mas Grande de Banda Pequenos Musical
(1998)
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Banda Pequeños Musical
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Music of Mexico [Passport]
(1995)
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Various Artists
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Fuego Nuevo
(2007)
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Trono de Mexico
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La Produccion Maestra 2006 [CD/DVD]
(2006)
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Banda Pequeños Musical
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20 Grandes Exitos
(2005)
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Banda Pequeños Musical
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Hat Trick
(1997)
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The Mollys
Tumultuous, rocking, rowdy, bar music that somehow sounds like it's being played by a band from the Irish side of the tracks down near the Mexican border. All the lyrics were written by Nancy McCallion, who is also one of the lead singers. The other lead singer is Catherine Zavala, who also plays mandolin and bodhran, while Kevin Schramm ...
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Tenis Magicos
(1995)
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Banda Pequeños Musical
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Homenaje a Beto Quintanilla
(2007)
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Homero Guerrero Jr/Los Kdt's
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