Amigos

The guitar of Toninho Horta is always a treat, but on this 2005 album it's made even better by some lyrically light flute work from Nicola Stilo! The set's got a dreamy quality that really gets at the gentler sound of Horta's work on guitar – and a few tunes even feature his vocals, singing in a laidback way that has echoes of the earlier bossa era, but a more gently jazzy approach overall. Stilo plays a variety of flutes on the set, and titles include a great version of Coltrane's "Naima", plus "Very Early", "Vento", "My Ideal", "In A Sentimental Mood", "Meu Canario", "Bons Amigos", and "Illusion".

Various Artists - The Devil's Swing: Ballads From The Big Bend Country Of The Tex-Mex Border (2000) {Arhoolie 480}
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Latin / Tejano / Corrido / Mexican Traditions / Norteno / Tex-Mex

These 19 performances in traditional Tejano styles were recorded in the mid- to late '90s during the making of the documentary film The Devil's Swing, which examines the region where the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos meet. At this point on the Texas-Mexico border, around the towns of Ojinaga in Mexico and Presidio in Texas, the isolation from large urban centers has helped preserve the traditional ballad "corrido" styles that are heard on this CD. On the surface this is just another disc of traditional border music: brisk numbers with soulful vocal harmonies, accordion, and pulsing bass, as well as some sax and occasional drums.

Los de la Trocha - Los de la Trocha (1975) {Columbia TXS 3027}
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© 1975 Columbia Spain | TXS 3027
Flamenco / Sevillanas / World Music / Vocal / Guitar / Latin / Western European Traditions

In 1971, as an extension of those beautiful holidays in a big house in Seville Street Imperial, which Manuel Bernal Prieto, its owner, baptized with the name "La Trocha" born this group bearing the same name that mythical tablao, always remembered. Manolo Bernal and even early eighties that is when the group broke up, what form Leonardo Lopez Roldan Antonio Ramirez Perez, Antonio Beltran Pavon "Valencina" and Francisco Terrero Ramos (guitar), incorporated after Francisco Sanchez de la Rosa. The act every day of the year in the same place, taking high-flying moves when the tablao with all the luxury Round Capuchins, made it possible that "La Trocha" reached a high levels of professionalism and experience, which could be felt not only in daily activities but the annual discography, always surprising us with songs like "It was your love", "My Thoughts" or "pure Canela" among other compositions of excellent workmanship.