More than a dream ... I dreamed, I dreamed it was him, I dreamed as if the past and at the same time fururo. He was young, almost adult, with my father we appreciated a beautiful sunset, do not know why she felt that after that day will not see him again. Wanted to tell you how much I admired him, just because the person who planted that seed in my mother that gave me this little gift to exist. Suddenly he told me I was an excellent learner of life and their good teachings. A few seconds later, he rose and said: "There's my daughter's way, and I have to go to him." Just as I imagined it, never see him again, and so happened. I had that feeling of pride to express that desire towards him, love so immense that he had. And I realized at that moment that the words he said to me, another color, soft and calm, he added my soul ...
Lila Downs La Cantina I had no idea who it was Lila Downs. He had simply heard about it but never heard his music, until one night in October 2006, a friend in Xalapa, Veracruz, I insisted that we go to a concert yours. The only vague reference I had of it (and this because it reminded me), was his appearance in the film Frida, Salma Hayek version, where Lila Downs sings in the scene where he dances with Frida and I do not know who plants a kiss on the mouth to another woman. To me the film did not really enjoy and perhaps that is not registered the face of the Downs, which incidentally, seems a thousand times more to Frida Kahlo that Salma Hayek. The fact is that this concert was one of the most pleasant surprises I've had in life: She appears on stage dressed in typical attire from Oaxaca, surrounded by musicians of different nationalities and extraordinary virtuosity. Sing songs composed by her but also rescues traditional songs, and sings it in English than in English, Mayan, Nahuatl, Mixtec and Zapotec. His music blends various rhythms such as jazz, gospel, hip-hop, ballads, cumbias, boleros, and as mentioned, traditional songs sung by collectors of crops in the northern lands, those to which our countrymen migrate every day. It sounds more tangled than it is. Listen to Lila Downs Live is an immersive experience, especially for its privilegiadísima voice, which has unlimited range. The same goes low, varies from one style to another, from one language to another, cry, laugh, laughs with his voice so powerful that the microphone is almost a hindrance, in addition to the sympathy of someone without posing outside the range of commercial or excesses and impositions of the current female image. It was then for me a very pleasant surprise to receive Lila Downs CD with all his discography adding the new CD, Canteen: between drinks ... , a tribute to the ranchera song, is sung from the tequila crisis and you hear with your eyes irritated by cigarette smoke in an enclosed bar. Downs made here his unique tribute to a handful of known rancheras, but also provides their own pieces as La Cumbia del Mole , the recipe for the popular food (in English first and English later, and whose video can be vis to on its website ) and El corrido de Tacha "La Teibolera" . I read on a website that is a curious version of Your memory and I Jose Alfredo Jimenez, where he mixes electronic instruments, hip-hop, and the letter of Life is worth nothing . Very good also Trees Barranca, with a band accompanying him gives a very rustic tone to the song. My personal favorites are The Lightning, in a form that conveys a vibe of madness contagious and Yo ya me voy, sung a cappella, a polyphonic song usually sing after the harvest in the area of La Laguna in Coahuila and Durango, and when one least expects it, and tears go down her cheek, shooting without stopping
Yo ya me voy / to die in the desert / I'm the ejido / and the star sailor / only to think / I walk away from home / just that I remember / I just want to mourn.
also seems to me that the technical level of this album has surpassed those of previous not doing justice to the vocal quality of the Downs. In a couple of previous albums, it seemed to me that Downs's voice was like a singing bird in a cage. Or maybe I had that impression from that night I saw her perform live before, his voice is expanded without limit. So if you have the opportunity to go to one of his concerts, do not miss it under any circumstances. And if even if you love the mountain starts rancheras, this is a good album to feel encantinado and also to Zoom Lila Downs, who is like one of those birds in the humid tropics: little ones body but are pure voice and feeling, songs that disturbs the sense.
