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La Llorona | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lhasa De Sela
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Category: Music
Buy New: $17.98
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 10326
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 83120
UPC: 075678312021
EAN: 0075678312021
ASIN: B000009MV1
Release Date: August 18, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | De Cara A La Pared | | • | Le Celestina | | • | El Desierto | | • | Por Eso Me Quedo | | • | El Payande | | • | Los Peces | | • | Floricanto | | • | Desdenosa | | • | El Pajaro | | • | Mi Vanidad | | • | El Arbol Del Olvido |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Lhasa De Sela has distinguished herself as a singer and storyteller with her debut album, La Llorona. The 25-year-old Montreal resident, who grew up traveling through Mexico while living on a school bus, sings of her tortured heart with the accompaniment of guitarist-producer-arranger Yves Desrosiers and a cabaret-style band. Already compared to those of Edith Piaf and Billie Holiday, De Sela's haunting voice is memorable on each of the 11 songs (only 3 are nonoriginal) that range in inspiration from Mexican ranchera to Eastern European klezmer. --Cristina Del Sesto
Amazon.com
Half Mexican American, half Jewish American and all rainbow chile, singer Lhasa de Sela's Spanish-language, world music/alt-rock debut shimmers with honest emotionalism, with no trace of the posturing and whining that passes these days for deep, girlish thoughts. The girl's young, but she's equipped with imagination, confidence, and technique enough to take that husky, urgent alto anywhere she wants. And she goes there. Guitarist-producer-arranger Yves Desrosiers cloaks all this splendor in rapturous arrangements that include, among other elements, the sound of rain, flamenco-influenced guitar, and a slide bass of his own design. Even if you don't understand Spanish, you can't miss the point ... the feelings. Lhasa's just begun, but her stranger-than-fiction background and dazzling gifts already place her among music's top-rung storytellers. --Elena Oumano
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| Customer Reviews: Read 66 more reviews...
 Lhasa's La Llorona February 19, 2007
I can't get enough of this woman's music! I shout More, More,More!
SUPRISE, SORPRESA January 4, 2007
Este Cd ha sido mi sorpresa del ano 2006 Puede ser un CD de musica mejicana una obra maestra???. Si la respuesta es YES, entonces La Llorona="Obra maestra". Lhasa no tiene una voz de las que podriamos calificar de "bonita", pero si que es carismatica y tremendamente expresiva. Si a ello anadimos que las canciones presentan unas letras originales, con sentido y mensaje, unos ritmos que se meten en tu sangre y te acompanan alla adonde vayas, unos arreglos musicales "teatrales" en el mejor sentido del termino y unos instrumentos musicales irreprochablemente bien tocados, el resultado dificilmente puede mejorarse. No tengo ni idea si Lhasa esta arriba o abajo en el raking de las cantantes superventas. Pero si es lo primero....es logico,y si es lo segundo...esperemos que tarde o temprano, LHASA, se haga justicia con tu forma de enteder la musica.
 Frida's more attractive soundtrack sister March 16, 2006
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
Utterly amazing and unique sound. Her voice is so powerful.
 Almost perfect CD February 23, 2006
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
The only reason I am giving this CD 4 stars instead of 5, is because it is too short! Lhasa's voice is sultry, sad and powerful. The music is haunting yet airy. Perfection!
Felt like eating ice-cream in drizzling rain... November 7, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Funny, i had no idea about this album nor the artist.. My mother was in Istanbul airport waiting to board the plane for New York and she was just strolling about in the last minute newspaper/souvenir stores.
The music playing in the shop got her attention and she asked the owner at the cash register if she could purchase the cd. The store owner agreed and took it out of his CD player and gave it to her half price since it was used. (At least he included the outer cover and the booklet inside).
I first listened to the album while i was chatting late night on the computer with my friends. I wasn't paying much attention to the lyrics or the songs, it was just intended to be background music.
I finished the whole cd, i was still chatting, and i wanted to listen it again. I didn't understand the lyrics, but it sounded sad. I felt bad, it made me think that De Sela came from poverty and an unhappy childhood, i thought of South American kids running around in narrow streets.. I realized that i really loved these songs, i don't know what the lyrics are about, it just sounds that there is some pain and love in these songs.. In the 5th song "El Payande" it sounds like she is defying somebody/something and then gives in. And then the next song starts playing, it made me recall a summer in Barcelona.. Gaudi, colors, late nights a touch of Picasso somewhat Don Quixote...
This cd is for people who are looking for a piece of imaginitive music, not intended to listen in the car or whilst jogging..
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