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Free Music Notes for FrenesiFree Music Review: You can't get more authentic than this. Hit: 5 StarsLinda Ronstadt clearly has a Spanish soul to be able to sing in such an expressionable and authentic way. This record is one to buy and play often. Ray Santos and orchestra perfectly matches and compliments the vocals, and marvellously sets a salsa mood. Technically the recording is well done and the choice of tracks is very satisfying; the songs go together well. Buy it.
Free Music Review: A trip back to early childhood. Hit: 5 StarsWhen I listen to "Frenesi," I am immediately transported back to the house parties my parents attended back in the late '60s and early '70s. As third generation Latin Americans living in LA, they were less interested in traditional Mexican or South American music and much more into the cha-chas, rhumbas and mambos of the Hispanic Caribbean. Unlike Gloria Estefan's similar CDs which can sound overwrought, Ronstadt's treatment of songs like "Perfidia," "Frenesi" and "Piel Canela" are precise, elegant, heartfelt and beautifully performed. I'll bet she used to watch her parents and uncles and aunts dance to this music, too. Anyway, she's the best "Norte Americana" interpreter of this sort of material (not counting Marc Anthony or Lila Downs, of course, who came after this)
Free Music Review: Canciones de Mi Madre Hit: 5 StarsOf all of Ms. Ronstadt's latin music albums, this is my absolute favorite. My mother was Mexican and these songs are the songs she was listening to while growing up in south Texas in the 1930s and 1940s. They're off the ranch and more into the towns and cities, i.e., they were the popular standards of their day. Romantic, lively, warm, sweet - these songs have it all. And they have a perfect interpreter in Ms. Ronstadt. She was born to sing this music.
Free Music Review: Canciones de Mi Madre Hit: 5 StarsOf all of Ms. Ronstadt's latin music albums, this is my absolute favorite. My mother was Mexican and these songs are the songs she was listening to while growing up in south Texas in the 1930s and 1940s. They're off the ranch and more into the towns and cities, i.e., they were the popular standards of their day. Romantic, lively, warm, sweet - these songs have it all. And they have a perfect interpreter in Ms. Ronstadt. She was born to sing this music.
Free Music Review: excellent latin dance tempo Hit: 5 Starsif you are a lover of strict tempo latin dance this is a must have. i had come upon this cd by chance.
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