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Mariachi Flor de Toloache | “Let Down”
UM ps how come none of you guys alerted me to these insanely talented mariachi megababes? How come I had to hear about this from my MOM, of all people?? Get it together, internet! Get on the ball!
oh my gosh. they have an album out. it’s super good. it contains a phenomenal rendition of Cucurrucuru Paloma, among other things.
They are currently in the studio recording a second album on Daptone Records and I am pumped.
My favorite thing about the video above, though. Is the relative scale. The three women on the right, are they normal-sized women, and the woman with the guitarrón is just really giant? Or is she a normal-sized woman, and the other three are just really petite? A tragedy of that video is that the possibly normal-sized, possibly one and one-third scale woman with the one and one-third scale guitar is far from the microphone so you can’t really hear her playing.
I love mariachi. It’s one of those things I have never really examined too closely. But what’s odd is… I know a lot of the words to a lot of the traditional songs, and I’m not really sure why. My mother was a high school Spanish teacher, and so she probably had tapes and things, and I know we listened to stuff, I just– I don’t remember ever paying attention. Why would I? But I know a lot of the words, way out of line with how much actual Spanish I know.
Anyway. It looks like most of the album is on YouTube. So go listen to it. It’s also on Google Play if you use that app.
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Mariachi Flor de Toloache | “Let Down”
UM ps how come none of you guys alerted me to these insanely talented mariachi megababes? How come I had to hear about this from my MOM, of all people?? Get it together, internet! Get on the ball!
oh my gosh. they have an album out. it’s super good. it contains a phenomenal rendition of Cucurrucuru Paloma, among other things.
They are currently in the studio recording a second album on Daptone Records and I am pumped.
My favorite thing about the video above, though. Is the relative scale. The three women on the right, are they normal-sized women, and the woman with the guitarrón is just really giant? Or is she a normal-sized woman, and the other three are just really petite? A tragedy of that video is that the possibly normal-sized, possibly one and one-third scale woman with the one and one-third scale guitar is far from the microphone so you can’t really hear her playing.
I love mariachi. It’s one of those things I have never really examined too closely. But what’s odd is… I know a lot of the words to a lot of the traditional songs, and I’m not really sure why. My mother was a high school Spanish teacher, and so she probably had tapes and things, and I know we listened to stuff, I just– I don’t remember ever paying attention. Why would I? But I know a lot of the words, way out of line with how much actual Spanish I know.
Anyway. It looks like most of the album is on YouTube. So go listen to it. It’s also on Google Play if you use that app.
