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| What you're about to read is a collection of pointers to some of the music I've discovered on the iTunes Music Store, music I like enough that I want to share it. If you're an iPod owner and an iTunes fan (and if you aren't, what are you doing here?), maybe you'll find something new. Click on any of the CD covers to bounce over to the store and sample a few tracks. And then maybe stop by my other blog for a few well chosen words (and maybe a random snark or two). | 
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Fri, 22 Sep 2006 |
| Ananda / Paulina Rubio | |
| Is it hot in here? Or is it just her? |
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Wed, 21 Dec 2005 |
| Haydée / Haydée Milanés | |
| The last time I wrote about a Spanish language album, I mostly talked about trying to work my way through automated translation. But not this time, both because I'm older and wiser (yeah, right!) and because this performer's record label was thoughtful enough to include a handy English translation on her website. Which doesn't leave me much to say, really, beyond how much I like the sound of Haydée's voice. Which I do. A lot. And perhaps to wonder if not having a clue what she's singing about is actually a good thing. |
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Mon, 15 Aug 2005 |
| Incidents of Travel / David Correa & Cascada | |
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A few days ago I wrote about
Herb Alpert &
Tijuana Brass. Okay, not really; all I talked about
was the sexy cover of one of their albums. But that got me thinking
about the other mock-Latin bands of that period: groups like the
Baja Marimba Band and
Sergio Mendez & Brasil
'66 who took sophisticated music and strained and processed it
for mainstream consumption.
Incidents of Travel is kind of like that. These Northern California musicians evoke the sounds and rhythms of Mexico and Central America. It's less like strained peas than its predecessors but, in my own limited experience, rather less passionate than the real thing. Nice without being challenging. Me, I like a challenge now and then. |
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Wed, 20 Apr 2005 |
| Canta Roberto Carlos / Tamara | |
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Tamara Canta Roberto Carlos is a tribute to a composer I
don't know by a performer I'd never heard before in a language I don't
speak. And to make matters even more confusing, the iTMS seems to
have a little identity problem, confusing the Tamara who sings Roberto
Carlos with another Tamara who recorded an album called
My
Life, as well as
an
R&B singer named TaMara. Fortunately for me, all I had to do
was consult Google; if I could read the page, this wasn't the droid I
was looking for. (Sorry, I seem to be
channeling Obi-Wan.)
Good thing I have Google to translate from Spanish to something resembling but not quite English. From which I learned that Tamara is the twenty year old granddaughter of a famous flamenco singer who became a Spanish pop sensation at age fifteen, that Carlos is a great Brazilian romantic composer and that my hovercraft is full of eels. (Oops, sorry; now I'm doing Python.) Anyway, none of that has anything to do with the fact that Tamara has a wonderful voice and that the songs she performs here take full advantage. And not understanding a word hardly seems to matter. |
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