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| Artist : Charanga Cakewalk |
| Album : Chicano Zen |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Source : CD (LP) |
| Label : Artemis Records |
| Year : 2006 |
| Genre : Rock |
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| Rip date : 2007-05-05 |
| Store date : 2006-00-00 |
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| Encoder : LAME |
| Size : 72 megs |
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+--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+
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| 1. Chicano Zen 5:01 |
| 2. La Miga Hormiga 4:29 |
| 3. Melodica 3:12 |
| 4. Amor Profundo 4:34 |
| 5. No Soy Felliz 2:51 |
| 6. La Mimosa 5:08 |
| 7. El Cine 4:36 |
| 8. Yida Magica 3:45 |
| 9. Gloria 4:30 |
| 10. La Corriente 4:16 |
| 11. El Ballad De Jose Campos Torres 4:50 |
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| 47:12 |
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+-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+
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| Austin-based Miguel Ramos has created one of the most incongruous chill |
| grooves ever. Who could have imagined that cumbia, merengue, Tejano and |
| even flamenco-from-afar, when tossed with Caribbean rhythms plus |
| electronica and beats, could still burn, but like dry ice? Traditional |
| instruments like accordion, Celso Duarte's glorious harp, and Max Baca's |
| baja sexto (twelve-string bass), plus other plucked strings and assorted |
| shakers merge with Spanish-language vocals, the latter provided by |
| Mexican superstar Lila Downs, Ruben "El Gato Negro" Ramos, folk-rocker |
| Patty Griffin, Martha Gonzalez from the group Quetzal, and Texas |
| singer-songwriter Davφd Garza. But these are underpinned by subtle drum |
| 'n' bass and assorted lounge interpolations. Although sufficiently hip |
| to enchant the most exacting club denizen, the tunes retain a festive |
| playfulness and defiantly un-cool degree of passion; only in Brazil have |
| such wildly disparate elements been so successfully fused with no loss |
| of integrity on either side. The subject matter ranges from |
| Morricone-laced memories of childhood cinema excursions, to a |
| Lawrence-Welk-like polka tribute to the bandleader's mother, to an elegy |
| for a deceased victim of police brutality, but the album flows like a |
| hallucinatory, edgy-cozy tone poem. --Christina Roden |
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