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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
^ HaHa. Thanks Zaqarbal ! " Dirty blues with a sinister edge" sounded too good to resist, so I listened to Guadalupe Plata even though they weren't my first music of the day.
All the tracks are great, and your description is pretty accurate. I particularly liked Ratas and Milana, with the crazy singer. On that track, I thought that around 1:35 was simultaneously the best bit of the music and the worst bit of the video, but that's just my opinión. What do you think? The standout track for me though is Filo de Navaja, with that cool base tying down the wild guitar. I'll certainly be putting some GP into my music files - thanks  |
Actually I just copied that description from El Intercambio's post itself. Anyway, it's fascinating to see how three Andalusians play that style of music with such a passion. In fact,
Milana videoclip humorously alludes to that. The presenter, with a strong Andalusian accent, introduces Guadalupe Plata as an American band.
The good Spanish musicians use to have a great ability to
import, assimilate and mix all kind of genres, and to adapt them to Spanish language. For instance, in the 80's certain bands made a kind of new
hispanization (splendid, by the way) of American classic rock-&-roll and rockabilly:
The thing is that it sounded
amazingly natural to the Spanish-speaking audience. And it's not easy at all to achieve that result. It has a lot of merit. Due to words' length, it's very difficult to make a good rock or pop song in Spanish (at least much more difficult than doing it in English). However, if the artist in question is really talented, everything is possible.