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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
He, and we, is what he, and we, is. Don't feel bad for me. |
Very profound.
I want that on my tombstone.
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LOSARIPES
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Tania Libertad....... check her out
Aripes
God bless America
and Baja tambien
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Don Alley
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajabeachbabe
I have two personal radio stations I created on Pandora.com, one is a Ricky Martin station and the other is Los Tigres de Norte. Pandora adds other
similar artists and you get to find lots of new (and some old) musicians.
Some of my other favorites are Lila Downs and Herzon (from Loreto).
I will admit, though, that after listening to my Los Tigres de Norte station I often have a craving for bratwurst and Pacifico! Must be the accordian
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I recently checked out Pandora and liked it, but I spend 10 months of the year in Loreto and Pandora is blocked overseas, and may go out of business
soon due to the new royalty rates for internet radio.
I have, however, upgraded to iTunes 8 with a similar "artificial intelligence" system called Genius. It's new, and in it's first version, but does
give hints on new music to acquire. However, some posters here have reported problems with the upgrade, although I've had none on my Mac.
I'm looking forward to being back in Loreto, dining at Biznaga and hearing Herzon play.
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The Gull
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
Definite ditto on Lila Downs, 3 (or more) languages and what a range! I have 4 of her CDs so far.
Also like Molotov for "modern" stuff.
Loved the Texas Tornadoes, but now with Freddy gone I doubt the rest are still together. I have a big collection of his stuff going way back to LPs
when he was Baldemar Huerta.
For the oldies, the list is too long... ALL the old trios etc. |
Lila performed last night at the Hollywood Bowl with Spearhead and Ozomatli. Great concert. She was really revved up. Her Paloma Negra brought the
house down.
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The Gull
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Expert on lots of things, are you?
Please list the names of the artists and the burrito joints where they are performing for the next 3 months.
If you cannot do as requested, then you must remove the NO from your username and add in PURE.
This isn't a burrito joint...
[Edited on 9-23-2008 by The Gull]
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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patsydiamo
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PERLA BATTALA---she has the voice of an angel.
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Martyman
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It is Poncho Sanchez (not Pancho). Mongo Santamaria, Willie Colon.
Whatever happened to Dr. Loco and the Rockin' Jalapenos?
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wsdunc
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Susana Baca-self titled CD
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Oso
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Life Is looking up for singer Lila Downs
LOS ANGELES - Lila Downs is an artist who always seemed to have her act together. The Mexican-American singer has a stunning voice, a confident
multicultural vision grounded in her Indian roots and a successful 15-year career in global music circles.
What she doesn´t have is a child.
Downs faced her inability to conceive children as she approached her 40th birthday in September. Depressed and drinking, she fell apart.
"What ... the hell am I doing in this life if I can´t have children?" she asked herself. "That´s the whole point of living as a woman."
Back home in her beloved Oaxaca, the deteriorating political situation wracked by a violent teachers strike two years ago made matters worse. As a
champion of her culture, she felt powerless and angry, and she started taking it out on her band. Once, in the middle of a concert in the Canary
Islands, she walked off the stage, thinking, "You guys work it out yourselves. See how far you get without me."
"The devil came out in me," recalled Downs, who performs Sunday at Hollywood Bowl with Ozomatli and others as part of the world music series of KCRW,
a southern California National Public Radio affiliate.
"I was engendering the anger in my band and suddenly everybody started fighting. Oooh, yeah, it´s very interesting, because the seed of evil, I can
see how it infects things," she said.
Today, Downs has won her fight with the devil. She laughs frequently, even while discussing personal problems. She dresses in a sexier way, sporting a
short skirt to help announce the recent Latin Grammy nominations at the House of Blues in West Hollywood.
And she´s started plucking eyebrows that she used to keep thick, a la artist Frida Kahlo, without realizing the look made her feel manly, even
fearsome.
"It´s liberating to suddenly pluck your eyebrows and be more feminine," she said.
But Downs´ biggest transformation is in her music.
Her new album, "Shake Away," marks a pinnacle in her attempts to find a natural fusion of disparate strains of music and different sides of herself.
The title tells you where she´s at. She took that evil and shook it off.
Her previous album makes more sense now too.
"La cantina" (2006) was a collection of Mexican "rancheras," drinking songs for broken-hearted people. It was her release for all that pain, though
she didn´t talk about it much at the time. Even now, when she sings a snippet from the Cuco Sánchez classic "La cama de piedra" ("Bed of Stone") in
her trademark deep voice, she can summon profound sadness.
"From the cantina to the cure" - that´s a line she´s using to describe what has happened to her between albums.
The "cure" refers, in part, to the healing she underwent with a "curandera" from Oaxaca, Doña Queta. The famed folk healer and midwife prescribed a
regimen of herbal teas and massage to awaken her femininity.
"I really did feel better physically after Queta gave me those teas," said Downs during a recent interview in West Hollywood. "She has the wisdom you
can´t find in Western medicine. She knows the connection between the physical, the emotional and the spiritual, and that´s something you will not find
in the scientific world."
With long braids, colorful woven clothing and strong sense of mysticism, Downs´ artistic persona is immersed in the indigenous culture of Oaxaca. Her
early albums in the mid-to-late 1990s were essentially showcases for the folkloric music of the region southeast of Mexico City, less popular here
than the "norteña," banda and mariachi music from other parts of Mexico.
Downs´ importance, however, lies with her ability to transform folk tradition into a modern, living genre - what she calls "re-conceiving" the music.
She now uses it as part of a Pan-American palette of sounds that includes blues, jazz and rock, reflecting the half of her lineage inherited from her
Scottish-American father.
Multicultural fusions are not a matter of taking something from column A and something from column B, which can sound self-consciously eclectic. With
the new album, Downs and Paul Cohen, her husband and longtime collaborator, finally have hit on a natural formula. But like the instinctive recipes of
great cooks, they can´t quite tell you how it´s done.
"Musically, it´s kind of hard to explain things anymore because it flows so much," Downs said.
The evolution was helped by the couple´s move a few years ago from Mexico City to New York, where Downs and Cohen live in an apartment in Chinatown.
The city´s multinational melange has energized her band, La Milagrosa, which includes a drummer from Chile, a guitarist from Venezuela, a bassist from
St. Louis and percussionists from Colombia and Cuba.
"New York City is the place where musicians are willing to risk more," said Downs, who co-writes all the music with her husband-arranger. "You can
find a musician from Morocco or Paris or Colombia, and they´re willing to put in their bid for 200 bucks a session and see what happens when coming
together with different artists from different cultures."
The album´s open, expansive feel is enhanced by Downs´ duets with guest singers, including Mari from Spain´s flamenco-chill band Chambao, Rubén
Albarrán of Mexico´s Café Tacuba and New Mexico-born Raul Midon on a tribal reworking of Carlos Santana´s "Black Magic Woman."
After 15 years, Downs remains one of the most interesting and compelling artists from Mexico. She tours constantly throughout the world and even
performed at the Oscars in 2003, singing a duet with Brazil´s Caetano Veloso on "Burn It Blue," a nominated song from the movie "Frida," to which she
contributed other music.
Through it all, Cohen has been by her side, sharing dreams for a better world.
"I´ve become a much more peaceful person, thanks to him," Downs said, laughing again.
Keeping the cultural torch ablaze hasn´t been easy. Even Mexicans don´t think it´s hip to do Mexican music these days.
"Swimming against the current can be hard work because you have to deal with this notion that what we´re doing is somehow backward," Downs said.
"I come from a culture that is very negative and very ashamed in many ways. The Mixtec people I meet in New York, they´re afraid to say they´re
Mexican. And I try to tell them, `No, keep your heads high. We have to show that we, too, are worth something here."
By AGUSTIN GURZA Los Angeles Times
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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tripledigitken
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Another vote for Lila Downs, Ozomatli, Mana, Freddy Fender, Molatov, and Mongo Santamaria.
Some more...
Ruben Blades (Actor, Lawyer and very good Salsa Vocalist)
Ruben Ramos (Vocalist from Sugarland, Texas)
Los Lobos (Just another band from East LA)
Orlando Cachaito Lopez ( The hearbeat of Buena Vista Social Club) check out his release.. Cachaito
Hugh Masakala (Latin Jazz Trumpeter)
Ken
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movinguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by lingililingili
Luis Miguel |
I'm pretty sure I was the only gringo out of about 20,000 at his concert last night in SD.
A bit dramatic but pretty good overall . . . 
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windgrrl
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Oscar de Leon - King of Salsa!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_D'Le%C3%B3n
Jesse Cooke - flamenco style
http://www.jessecook.com/
Ottmar Liebert - Canadian
http://www.lunanegra.com/index.php
Afro-Cuban All Stars, Elias Ochoa, Celia Cruz, Otmara Profuondo & Ibrahim Ferrer - Cuban Classics (ask me if you want more!), sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE1ijoIxMo0
The Mexican trio of gentlemen who make the rounds and seranade the tables at the Los Barriles joints!
...and of course, the transcendental C. Santana tops my list...well Los Lobos is not far below!
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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windgrrl
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Just one more!
Cold Play and Buena Vista Social Club:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85X3ZGwYtk
Muy Sabroso!
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
~ I-Ching
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Roasty
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Wow it took 3 pages before Ruben Blades got a mention!
His Fania stuff is top-draw, also for people who like compilations, a label from the UK "Soundway" has two compilations out 1. Colombia "The Golden
Age of Disco's Fuentes" (featuring some great 60's and 70's "Fuentes" vinyl classics) 2. Panama (again classics from yesterday from Panama). Great
stuff for under the palapa with a cold one - or three !
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larry
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Performers of one of the greatest corridos--or at least one of my faves--Sonora y sus Ojos Negros
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larry
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| Quote: | Originally posted by The Gull
Expert on lots of things, are you?
Please list the names of the artists and the burrito joints where they are performing for the next 3 months.
If you cannot do as requested, then you must remove the NO from your username and add in PURE. |
Let me answer on behalf of nobullchit since you seem to be calling into doubt his innocent statement in an unfriendly way.
Regional Mexican artists (durangense, banda, norteno, sierreno) with hit records tour regularly in the United States. It is as lucrative a market for
them as Mexico. They perform at fairgrounds concerts and jaripeos (music with rodeo performances) and at clubs. Frequently those clubs are Mexican
restaurants during the day and live music clubs on weekend nights. And although some of these may be "burrito joints" admission to these shows is
usually $30-50.
As an example, in the last year I have seen the following highlevel Mexican artists at El Rancho Restaurant in Concord, California: Julio Preciado y
su Banda, Los Dareyes de la Sierra, German Lizarraga y sus Estrellas de Sinaloa, and El Potro de Sinaloa. Over the past ten years, I have seen most
of the major stars of regional Mexican music in Northern California.
Another restaurant here in the Bay Area that presents touring Mexican acts is La Finca in Bay Point/Pittsburg. The combo of Mexican restaurant/club
is even more common in areas of the US where there is a smaller Mexican population that in California.
As for asking for artist itineraries three months in advance, these shows are generally not booked that far in advance and are usually advertised only
7-10 days in advance.
I hope that clarifies things Gull. So let's allow our friend to use whatever name he likes.
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The Gull
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Larry
Embrace who you wish.
I never doubted that performances of all types are held at small locations. I saw the Stones at the Wiltern a few years back and Canned Heat at a bar
on Cannery Row in Monterey about five years ago.
What I believe is that some posters need removal and that is NOBULLchit.
[Edited on 9-23-2008 by The Gull]
�I won\'t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.� William F. Buckley, Jr.
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larry
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I guess there is some personal bad blood--I did not pick up on that for the simple comment you responded to.
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