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La Sandunga
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Track Listings
1 | La Sandunga |
2 | Pobre Changuita |
3 | Naila |
4 | Tengo Miedo De Quererte |
5 | Un Poco Mas |
6 | Sabor A Mi |
7 | Ofrenda |
8 | La Llorona |
9 | Yunu Yucu Ninu |
10 | Cancion Mixteca |
11 | Pinotepa |
12 | El Venadito |
13 | Perfume De Gardenias |
14 | La Malagueña |
15 | Besame Mucho |
Editorial Reviews
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World musician Lila Downs experienced a career renaissance thanks to her contributions to the 2002 Frida movie and soundtrack . After two well-received solo albums, the Narada label has reissued Downs' dramatic debut album, La Sandunga. The singer released the album independently in 1997, and it still sparkles with the immediacy and passion of a woman completely connected to and excited by her craft. Every song on La Sandunga, including the album's three bonus tracks, flows effortlessly into the next. It's as if the album was recorded without pause during one very creative recording session. Downs' Mixtec-Indian and American background is an obvious influence on her work. The album is peppered with lush strings and blaring horns. It's all anchored by Downs' wildly diverse vocal stylings, which even manage to spice up the oft-recorded album closer, "Besame Mucho." --Joey Guerra
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.75 x 0.45 inches; 3.36 ounces
- Manufacturer : Narada
- Item model number : 2130682
- Date First Available : October 21, 2006
- Label : Narada
- ASIN : B0000CABLU
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #94,531 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #17 in Mexican Cumbia
- #18 in Cumbia (CDs & Vinyl)
- #963 in Latin Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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"La Sandunga" is an unusually eclectic mix, based on Ms. Downs' international artistic vision! Her formal vocal training (opera) gives her a tremendously varied range. Her songs come from the villages whose culture she studied after leaving opera studies and her repertoire includes boleros, ballads and rancheros, as well as original compositions backed by a multi-ethnic, very talented band. A Brazilian guitarist, a Cuban bassist, a Chilean drummer, a Mexican harpist, and a pianist/saxophonist/musical director from New Jersey create a creative, crisp, jazzy, at times bluesy Latin sound.
The title song, "La Sandunga," is a traditional Zapotec folk song. It is usually played at local festivities and at weddings. "La Zandunga" is a type of cancion performed as a Mexican waltz. It is a result of the music of the conquistadores,' who arrived from the Spanish provinces of Navarra and Leon, combined with that of indigenous cultures.
Other highlights include: "Pobre Changuita," which epitomizes Mexican country music and is one of my favorite cuts; "Ofrenda" is a corrido inspired by Mixtec immigrants who come to the US to find work and die here; "Yunu Yucu Ninu" is an extraordinary Mixtec poem written by Juan de Dios Ortiz, a Mixtec poet from San Miguel el Grande. It is truly beautiful. There is a Spanish and English translation in the linear notes; "Pinotepa," another favorite, is known as a chilena, a musical style brought from Chile by African slaves; The last three songs, bonus tracks, "Perfume de Gardenias," "La Maleguena," "Besame Mucho," are "part of a musical collaboration with choreographer Cecilia Lugo and the contemporary dance company Contempodanza. They were originally part of a collection called 'Trazos,' released in limited edition in 1999." I already mentioned "La Llorona" above.
Lila Downs is a Mexican-American vocalist, with a Scottish-American father, and a Mixteca mother. She grew up in both the Mexican state of Oaxaca and in Minnesota, USA, bi-lingual and bi-cultural. Lila received formal voice training in Mexico and in the States, and performs her own compositions, as well as tapping into the rich music from Mexico's indigenous peoples. Ms. Downs stated during an interview: "I have this special relationship with my voice. Though I've never considered myself to be a spiritual person....it's a spiritual feeling I have, which began when I studied anthropology. I began to have something approaching awe for this thing that came out of my body, which had to do with something bigger than me. Awe for this gift."
La Sandunga" is a wonderful CD! Lila Downs is a unique artist - simply superb! Highly recommended.
JANA
Musically, "La Sandunga" is enormously pleasing to me - full of dynamism, sometimes soft and languid, sometimes blazing with fury and the searing heat of love - for person, place and culture. I am not a music critic, so I'll leave the technical reviewing to those better qualified, but I know a thing or two about passion --- and this music delivers.
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Recorded almost 20 years ago, La Sandunga, far from being just a taste of things to come, is a beautiful piece of work in its own right. Lila’s music is always a fusion, but this one is probably the least “fused” of all her albums. No cumbia, blues or klezmer here. My favourite songs are the two boleros by Álvaro Carrillo, “Un poco más” and “Sabor a mí”. The versions of “La Llorona” and “Yunu Yucu Ninu” are rather different from you can hear on her later albums, Árbol de la vida and La Linea . The bonus tracks on this CD are also worth listening to, even “Bésame mucho” — which you’d think must be, indeed, best avoided — sounds fresh. Please give it a listen. You won’t be disappointed.