ALBUMS

July 2000


CALEXICO:
Hot Rails
(City Slang)
As band name Calexico suggest, this is the border sound of Southern California and Mexico. The music could be labeled roots music in the same vein as 16 Horsepower, but it is more accessible and groovy. Calexico saturates the music with romantic images of raven haired senoritas dancing in the velvet Mexican night.

El Picador with blasting Mariachi trumpets and Spanish guitars, opens the album. Lovely. Second cut, Ballad of Cable Houge with accordion, stinging guitars and female vocals in French by Marianne Disard and a swamp groove is irresistible and charming. After some tracks with excursions into ambient sounds and beats - could this be the Californian part of Calexico? - The sad ballad Muleta takes us back to Mexico.

When I write this I realize that I love the music of Calexico because I see it as an appropriate musical pendant to the author Cormac McCarthy´s Border trilogy books, so perhaps it has nothing to do with dance music or crossover. Good music it is - nevertheless.

2000

    BRIDGE     LAMBCHOP     CALEXICO     DAVID HOLMES


    MARLENA SHAW     ISOLÉE     MAE BAD BOY


    NOW PLAYING 1     NOW PLAYING 2     NOW PLAYING 3


    NOW PLAYING 4     NOW PLAYING 5     NOW PLAYING 6     NOW PLAYING 7     NOW PLAYING 8

1999

    ANTONIO     NEXT EVIDENCE     JOYCE     NITIN SAHWNEY


    PRESENCE     NINA SIMONE


    NOW PLAYING 1     NOW PLAYING 2     NOW PLAYING 3


    NOW PLAYING 4     NOW PLAYING 5     NOW PLAYING 6

1998

    PHOTEK     JAHMALI     MICA PARIS     OZOMATLI


    SMITH & MIGHTY     KID LOCO


    SIZZLA     MAJOR FORCE WEST     BRIGETTE McWILLIAMS


    YO-YO MA


    IN THE BOX     IN THE BOX     IN THE BOX


    IN THE BOX     IN THE BOX     IN THE BOX

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