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| Lila Downs, Caetano Veloso, Chavela Vargas, Poder del Norte & star Salma Hayek sing traditional songs punctuating Elliot Goldenthal's evocative score. |
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| 1 Benediction and Dream - Downs, Lila |
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| 2 The Floating Bed |
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| 3 El Conejo - Cojolites |
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| 4 Paloma Negra - Vargas, Chavela |
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| 5 Self-Portrait With Hair Down |
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| 6 Alcoba Azul - Downs, Lila |
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| 7 Carabina 30/30 - Norte, Poder Del |
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| 8 Solo Tu |
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| 9 El Gusto - Tamuin Huasteco Trio De Caimanes, |
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| 10 The Journey |
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| 11 El Antifaz - Liberación |
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| 12 The Suicide of Dorothy Hale |
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| 13 La Cavalera |
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| 14 La Bruja - Hayek, Salma |
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| 15 Portrait of Lupe |
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| 16 La Llorona - Vargas, Chavela |
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| 17 Estrella Oscura - Downs, Lila |
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| 18 Still Life |
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| 19 Viva la Vida - Marimberos |
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| 20 The Departure |
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| 21 Coyoacán and Variations |
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| 22 La Llorona - Downs, Lila |
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| 23 Burning Bed |
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| 24 Burn It Blue - Downs, Lila |
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Album Review
There is always a question, when a composer works on a project set in a culture of which he or she is not actually a part, a project intended for an audience that goes beyond that culture, how closely the composer should hew to the music of the culture itself. Broadway composers, for example, often have employed musical motifs and an instrument or two indigenous to the setting of a musical set in, say, Siam or Czarist Russia, while the overall score would betray its roots in 20th century American show music. Elliot Goldenthal, a New York-based composer who often works with his romantic partner, director Julie Taymor, follows a more contemporary trend to go native in his score for Taymor's "Frida", a biopic about the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954). On this soundtrack album, a third of the tracks are actual Mexican folk songs performed by Mexican artists. For the rest, Goldenthal presents a score based on traditional Mexican music. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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