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“Chulas Fronteras &
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This sound track album presents some of the finest musicians of the Música Norteña tradition from their performances in these two magnificent films The CD comes with a 40 page booklet with biographical notes about the artists and complete transcriptions and translations of the lyrics.
Both films are available on a single video cassette from Arhoolie Records, Brazos Films BF-104.
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Listen to some of the tracks!! (uses RealAudio®) Chulas Fronteras 1. Cancion Mixteca - Ramiro Cavazos/Rafael Ramirez 2. Mi Texana - Los Pinguinos Del Norte 3. Muchachos Alegres - Narciso Martinez 4. Luzita - Narciso Martinez 5. Mal Hombre / Pero Hay Que Triste - Lydia Mendoza 6. Chulas Fronteras - Lalo "El Piporro" Gonzalez (with Los Madrugadores Del Valle) 7. Rinches De Texas - Dueto Reynosa 8. Corrido De Cesar Chaves - Los Pinguinos Del Norte 9. Chicano - Rumel Fuentes (with Los Pinguinos Del Norte) 10. La Nueva Zenaida - Flaco Jimenez (with Fred Ojeda) 11. Un Mojada Sin Licencia - Flaco Jimenez/Fred Ojeda 12. Cotula - Santiago Jimenez (with Santiago Jimenez, Jr.) 13. Prenda Del Alma - Los Alegres De Teran 14. Volver, Volver - Los Alegres De Teran 15. Mexico Americano - Los Pinguinos Del Norte
Del Mero Corazón |
REVIEW “Arhoolie Records is an independent California based label, founded by Chris Strachwitz, that has for the past thirty years issued a vast, and remarkable, array of releases devoted to various "roots" musicsfrom blues and gospel to bluegrass, Cajun and zydeco. Recently, they've put out an extensive number of releases that survey the various musical styles of the Rio Grande region along the Texas/Mexico border. Probably the most well-known of these musical expressions is the variety known as conjunto called "Norteño" in Mexico and "Tex-Mex" in the U.S.that great accordion-driven dance hall music typified by the likes of Flaco Jimenez and Steve Jordan. But they've also released some overlooked and/or neglected historical gems.Chulas Fronteras/Del Mero Corazon presents the soundtracks from two award winning documentary films by Les Blank. These two films, made and recorded in the early '70s, highlight the music of the regionthey were filmed on the spot in the border clubs and bars and there's a raw vitality to this "blue collar" music of migrant agricultural workers. Especially moving are the corridos or story songsfrom Lydia Mendoza's tale of a "Mal Hombre" (Bad Hearted Man), to Flaco Jimenez' tragi-comic rendering of "Un Mojada Sin Licencia" (A Wetback Without A License) and Lalo Gonzalez' epic tale of the lives of migrant workers (in the title song), to the unrelenting and unremitting passion of "Volver, Volver" (Return, Return)they provide a moving portrait of both a music and a way of life.” (Kirk Robertson — Soundings) |
