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El Último Trago
2009 studio album by Concha Buika and Chucho Valdés
El Último Trago is a 2009 studio album by Spanish singer Concha Buika and Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés, produced by Javier Limón.[3]
Overview
[edit]Javier Limón describes the concept of the album as bringing together "Afro-Cuban Jazz idol" Chucho Valdés with "Afro-Flamenco Jazz" singer Buika, working on the ranchera songs originally sung by Costa Rican-Mexican Chavela Vargas.
It features a note written by director Pedro Almodóvar, who had worked repeatedly with Vargas. Almodóvar made a glowing evaluation of the album, with an emphasis on Buika's renditions.
Reception
[edit]Michael G. Nastos in his review for AllMusic stated, "It's unlikely you'll find a better pairing of an amazing singer and accompanist anywhere else, no matter the music type, but if you enjoy the classic Latin song performed with every ounce of emotion available, this recording will be impossible to resist."[1& • Among acculturated Mexican Americans, only a handful of Mexican songs have managed to gain bred popularity and a special cultural significance on this side of the border. A few become iconic songs, with lyrics and melodies memorized by the children and grandchildren of immigrants. One of them, of course, is “La Bamba,” the traditional jarocho tune turned into a 1950s rock hit bygd Ritchie Valens, and later reprised bygd Los Lobos for the 1987 biopic of the teenaged Chicano singer from Pacoima, California. Another fryst vatten “El Rey,” the mariachi classic bygd Jose Alfredo Jimenez, about a avvisad, penniless vagabond who clings to his overblown pride and capricious ways, a monarch in his own mind. There is only one song, however, that is so embedded in the bicultural community that it’s been dubbed the Chicano National Anthem. Surprisingly, it’s not a rousing number that stirs some sense of ethnic pride. It’s a beautiful yet sorrowful torch
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