Editorial Product Review: :Boy from East L.A. meets girl from the 'right' side of the tracks. Unfortunately, their relationship is threatened by mediocre music... er, societal pressures. For every worthy, evocative track that the Kirsten Dunst-starring Crazy/Beautiful's CD companion offers, two seem like recordings that a studio suit decided 'the kids will relate to': Emiliana Torrini's Björk-lite 'To Be Free,' the Getaway People's Beck-lite 'She Gave Me Love,' and Osker's Blink-182-lite 'Alright' might work in theaters, but here they just make the listener hope that the movie ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Import pressing of J-Lo's 2007 Spanish language album features two additional bonus tracks: 'Quien Sera' and 'Que Hiciste'. Como Ama Una Mujer (The Way a Woman Loves) is her first full Spanish-language album and features a collection of 'big ballads' written and produced by Estéfano, who had previously produced the Grammy-nominated Spanish-language album Amar Sin Mentiras for Marc Anthony. Epic. : Through the course of Como Ama Una Mujer, the first full-blown collection of Spanish-language tunes from multicultural diva Jennifer Lopez, we keep ...
Editorial Product Review: :He's coming to you straight from the 305 & or the Bottom as many from Miami refer to it. His club and radio singles Toma, Culo, Everybody Get Up, and more are now considered classics. His debut album M.I.A.M.I. has sold over 600,000 copies and is still selling!!! He s constantly touring the country and performs in front ot thousands of his fans every week. This artist goes by one name and one name only...PITBULL.Pitbull's sophomore release El Mariel has spawned several radio ...
Editorial Product Review: :Raul Malo's velvety tenor is warm and dirty in all the right ways. As the primary songwriter and frontman for the Mavericks and as a member of all-star band Los Super Seven, Malo's soulful croon has bent round the blue notes of country and spread itself thickly yet pliantly between and on top of the polyrhythms of Latin roots music. A tremendous and far-reaching effort, Today (Malo's solo debut) showcases not only what a genre-blending writer and powerful singer he is, but makes clear ...
Editorial Product Review: :Raul Malo's velvety tenor is warm and dirty in all the right ways. As the primary songwriter and frontman for the Mavericks and as a member of all-star band Los Super Seven, Malo's soulful croon has bent round the blue notes of country and spread itself thickly yet pliantly between and on top of the polyrhythms of Latin roots music. A tremendous and far-reaching effort, Today (Malo's solo debut) showcases not only what a genre-blending writer and powerful singer he is, but makes clear ...
Editorial Product Review: :At once spicy hot and languorously sweet, Putumayo Presents Cuba is a passionate marriage of active and passive, masculine and feminine, a contemporary festival of sound whose roots were born in defiance of onerous distraction and oppression. Based on Afro-Cuban culture, whose music comes from a combination of European and African instrumentation, the songs in this collection swing with the energetic rhythms of traditional son (also the base of salsa). Layered over the repetitive beat, guitars chime, maracas add shimmy, and trumpets take the ...
Editorial Product Review: 's Best of 2001:This eminently enjoyable soundtrack album gathers together a multigenerational collection of artists whose roots span South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa, underscoring the rich, dizzying variety of music that all too often simply gets labeled 'Latin.' The culture's telling sense of history is present throughout, from the Cuban son preservationism of Buena Vista Social Club singer-guitarist Eliades Ochoa ('Si en un Final') to the compelling reggae/rap/salsa cocktails of Sergent García ('Hoy Me Voy'). Bebel Gilberto updates traditional Brazilian jazz with ...
Editorial Product Review: :Gustavo Santaolalla is a talented multi-instrumentalist from Argentina who has been extremely involved in bringing new sounds to an age-old culture. Playing a variety of stringed instruments including the guitar, the guitarron, the charango, and the ronroco, Santaolalla bridges the gap between traditional musics and forward-thinking compositions. He reveals an unusually progressive vision filled with cascades of chiming sounds and the understated influences of Japan, Africa, and Eastern Europe, as well as Latin America. Accompanied by his associate Anibal Kerpel on vibraphone and melodia, ...
Editorial Product Review: :Gustavo Santaolalla is a talented multi-instrumentalist from Argentina who has been extremely involved in bringing new sounds to an age-old culture. Playing a variety of stringed instruments including the guitar, the guitarron, the charango, and the ronroco, Santaolalla bridges the gap between traditional musics and forward-thinking compositions. He reveals an unusually progressive vision filled with cascades of chiming sounds and the understated influences of Japan, Africa, and Eastern Europe, as well as Latin America. Accompanied by his associate Anibal Kerpel on vibraphone and melodia, ...
This raw work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture 1.5 could make life easier for photographers who need to cull, retouch, and output large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.
This raw work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture 1.5 could make life easier for photographers who need to cull, retouch, and output large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.