Showing posts with label mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mexico. Show all posts
Monday, August 21, 2023
Saturday, May 22, 2021
PEDRO VARGAS - SERENATA EN TU BALCON
Saturday, March 6, 2021
ESQUIVEL & HIS ORCHESTRA - TO LOVE AGAIN
Monday, June 22, 2020
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
MIKIS THEODORAKIS - PABLO NERUDA - CANTO GENERAL
Canto General is Pablo Neruda's tenth book of poems. It was first published in Mexico in 1950, by Talleres Gráficos de la Nación. Neruda began to compose it in 1938.
"Canto General" ("General Song") consists of 15 sections, 231 poems, and more than 15,000 lines. This work attempts to be a history or encyclopedia of the entire American Western Hemisphere, or New World, from a Hispanic American perspective.
The "Canto General" has been set to music by several musicians.
The best-known musical setting is by Mikis Theodorakis, a composer and politician from Greece. He completed four movements in 1973, recording these the following year. In 1975 and 1981, he expanded the work to seven and thirteen movements, respectively, recording the complete "oratorio" live in Munich in 1981. Vocals, in Spanish, on the incomplete 1974 recording are by Maria Farantouri and Petros Pandis.
This album was recorded live on August 13, 1975, at the Karaiskakis-Stadium, Pireus and on August 16, 1975, at the Panathinaikos-Stadium, Athens, by Polysound Studio.
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Monday, September 21, 2015
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
PATY & MARY - ALGO DIFERENTE!
Here's an album from Mexican sisters Paty and Mary and this came out in the early 60's....
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enjoy!
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
PEPE JARAMILLO WITH HIS LATIN AMERICAN RHYTHM - A MEXICAN ON BROADWAY
Pepe Jamarillo was born in the state of Chihuahua, that part of Mexico which contains the upper stretches of the western Sierra Madre. his love of music and his talent for playing it seem to have been inherited from his mother. At any rate, Pepe began playing the piano when he was only four, working at first entirely by ear, but later - after he had grown up - studying at the Conservatory of Music in Mexico City. Like so many parents, Pepe's father and mother looked on music as a hazardous career, and, while they were happy that their son should make it his hobby, they wanted him to become a dentist. To please them Pepe studied dentistry at the University of Mexico, but after a couple of years he decided this could never be his profession. As his parents insisted that he get some kind of degree, he attended the school of banking, eventually returning to Chihuahua with a degree in banking and secretarial practice.
Pepe worked for a couple of years with a British mining company, spending most of his vacation in Mexico City and, when that job finished, he went back to the capital. There a stroke of luck occurred which changed his entire life. He was having some drinks with a few friends in the bar of the Ritz, the most fashionable hotel in Mexico City, when they noticed there was a piano in the room. "Why don't you play it?" asked his friends, so Pepe sat down and started to entertain them. "Presently the manager came over," recalls Pepe "and asked if I was a professional pianist. "No," I told him, "just playing for my own amusement." When the manager asked if he would like a job performing at the hotel, Pepe thought he was kidding, but decided to keep the joke up. "Well," he said, "if you can pay me what I want, maybe I will". To his astonishment the manager replied, "Come in tomorrow and we'll talk things over".
that is how Pepe Jaramillo became a professional pianist, and for the next three years he performed at he Ritz bar. During that time he also appeared regularly on Radio and TV, as well as being in demand to accompany various singers who visited Mexico City. (He has worked with a great many of the most famous Latin-American and Spanish artists). When Pepe finally left the Ritz, it was to go into a new club - El Quid a very smart restaurant-bar, where he played right up to the moment he would like to see something of the world outside South and North America. After coming to Europe he spent a few months in Paris, then crossed the Channel and come to London early in 1958. Since then he has appeared on radio and TV in this country - including ABC-TV's weekly 'Sentimental Journey' programme - and made his recording debut here with his popular 'Mexico Tropicale' LP. Since then he has made many successful records.
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Monday, March 10, 2014
IRMA VILA Y LA PRIETA LINDA - ACCOMPANIED BY THE MARIACHIS
Here's an album from Mexican singer/actress Irma Vila who was famous in the late 40's, 50's and 60's. She was born in 1916 and passed away in 1993, she was also known as Irma Vila Irma Vila y su Mariachi....
GET IT HERE
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Monday, February 17, 2014
CUCO SANCHEZ & ANTONIO BRIBIESCA - GUITARRES, LLOREN GUITARRES
Beautiful Mexican Mariachi album from Cuco Sanchez with the guitar being played by Antonio Bribiesca.... This album came out in 1965....
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