Following in the paw prints of Los Tigres, he was altogether less respectable, both in his subject matter and in his we’ll say casual approach to traditional standards of musical quality.
Chalino, of course, was the second act to break narcocorridos inside El Norte. This week’s highest profile album is from LOS! BuiTRES! de Culiacán Sinaloa, their second volume of… well, I’ll let you intuit from the title, Tributo al Mas Grande Chalino Sanchez, Vol. (Part way into this new Ricky Martin, it’s at least listenable if not indeleble. “Indeleble,” the latest banda ballad by Banda Los Sebastianes, is anything but. La Fe have a disease and you shouldn’t enable it. The fellows in La Fe Norteña are not on Goma, but they are still puro Zacatecas sax and they claim they are “Adicto a Usted,” you poor thing. Musicological comparison is forthcoming.) (Primavera’s from Chihuahua, where they enjoy some puro Chihuahua sax.
Their “Cuando Quieras Llorar” could be Conjunto Primavera if you don’t play attention too closely, right down to the sax and the opulent ring in the singer’s voice. In fact, Goma would also like you to enjoy some puro Zacatecas sax from a different band, Capitanes de Ojinaga. Retoños hail from the central state of Zacatecas, where the “puro Zacatecas sax” is a thing. It’s got an Intocablish country bounce, busy fills, and a jagged riff played by both accordion and saxophone. This week’s pick to click is the latest single by Retoños del Rio, “Por Que La Engañe” (Goma). (The latter sums up my feelings after hearing Keith Emerson play a keyboard solo.)
Checking my notes from that year, Martin’s album was slightly worse than a spottily recorded live reissue by Emerson Lake & Palmer, but somewhat better than contemporary work by The Aquabats! and Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death. I’ve lost track of Martin since 2011, when his album Musica Alma Sexo was a sorry disaster. ¡Bienvenidos a la nueva semana musical! It’s really slow! So slow that the highest profile albums overall, judging by Spotify’s home page, are the 50 Shades soundtrack - which, who knows, maybe it’s really good - and Ricky Martin’s new one.
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