Finally! Following a few days of cyberspace riddles (Mi gente! Adivinen cómo se llama mi nueva canción! or ¿Ya saben cómo se llama mi nuevo sencillo?), Lila Downs has revealed the amazing new song, Peligrosa, from her forthcoming 10th studio album — to be released next month, woohoo!
28 abril 2017
21 abril 2017
La canción de la semana #575
...is (not exactly politically correct) Maria by Johnny Ventura and Edesio Alejandro. This song appears on Ventura's 2016 album Tronco Viejo.
12 abril 2017
La canción de la semana #574
Los Hijos de la Montaña is a collaboration between Sergio Mendoza, of Orkesta Mendoza fame, and Luz Elena Mendoza, a singer of Y la Bamba, an indie folk pop band from Portland, Oregon. (They are not related to each other). This week's song is Amor de lejos from their eponymous album.
09 abril 2017
La canción de la semana #573
...is Todas Las Lindas Son Crueles by the Argentine band La Mosca Tsé-Tsé.
02 abril 2017
La canción de la semana #572
...is Madres by young and incredibly talented Cuban singer, composer and bandleader Daymé Arocena. Daymé's new album Cubafonía is out now.
24 marzo 2017
17 marzo 2017
La canción de la semana #570
...is Sielpa by Aurelio Martinez, from the Honduran singer's new album, Darandi (out now at Real World Records).
09 marzo 2017
La canción de la semana #569
...is Mandela performed by Omar Puente. This composition appears on his 2016 album Best Foot Forward.
03 marzo 2017
La canción de la semana #568
Fantasía para un gentilhombre (1954) by Joaquín Rodrigo is based on music of the 17th-century Spanish composer Gaspar Sanz. The fourth movement of Fantasía is called Canario. I really like the Emerson, Lake & Palmer's version of this composition, which appears on the band's 1978 album Love Beach.
25 febrero 2017
La canción de la semana #567
Hotel California, arguably the most famous recording of the Eagles, was released forty years ago, and was covered since by almost everybody. Here's a Spanish-language version (bar "such a lovely place" which was probably deemed untranslatable) by Gipsy Kings!



