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Summary: Exelente Musica
Comment: la mescla de musica es muy importante,el tono y realmente es la unica cantante mexicana que realmete canta canciones del pueblo, con estilo.

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Summary: Powerful Vocals
Comment: Lila Downs is a most powerful singer.I only wish I could understand the language.

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Summary: The folksy folks
Comment: This is Lila's most folksy album ever. And also one of her most beautiful, intense and probably long lasting ones. This music will be still as great as it is today, in, say, twenty years from now.

Do not miss this one. The music speaks for itself, not that I can add much more.

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Summary: The Jazzier side of Lila
Comment: TREE OF LIFE is quieter all around: Downs' songs present more of her jazzy side, tend towards less passionate riffs and displays, yet are smoothly evocative of her Mexican roots and heritage.
 This isn't to say there's no spirit here: 'Nuevo Viento', for example, adopts a near-flamenco guitar style and exhibits the force of Downs' vocal trills.

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Summary: Back to roots
Comment: To the anonymous music fan from Seattle....shame on you. You have no idea what traditional Mexican music is...you must be one of those people that think burritos & "combinations" are traditional Mexican cuisine and that waltzes performed by misguided sell out mariachi bands are traditional Mexican music. Just as there is infinitely more to Mexican cuisine than is available in the U.S., consciousness about Mexican music is very superficial. Are southern gospel tunes or appalachian jigs any less American than Glenn Miller or Elvis Presley just because they were never discovered by mainstream audiences? While it is true that Lila fuses foreign influences with indigenous doesn't invalidate it...because Mexico's essence is one of mestizaje (fusion...racial, idiomatic, visual, and musical).

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