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I'm a big fan of Cafe Tacvba. Only one song really grabbed me on this CD, where in the past almost all the songs were amazing.

A good CD. Shows all the capacity of this mexican group. They can make differents kinds of sounds with the perfect harmony.

Is hard to tell if this CD is a better than the others, what I can tell you is that this CD is amazing, the sound is excelente, the mixes, the lyrics and the voices, from other plannet.

This is a great band, they are musicians indeed. They prove it by caressing your ears with interesting sounds and making your mind fly away with strong lyrics.
Last album "Cuatro caminos" was a great one, and nobody knew what to expect as the *new* release.
If you like Café Tacuba, you MUST by this album NOW. If you're just looking around, you MUST give them a try with this album.

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I got introduced to the Tacoob via Un Viaje, a tremendous live set. Sino is my first studio album from this band. Given the body of work on display in Viaje, Sino feels like their masterwork, their Abbey Road. Volver a Comenzar is plain stunning, an '80s dance song supremo that morphs into the Beach Boys, and then back again. Maybe one or two OK tracks, and the rest are first-rate. Even a seemingly "minor" song, Abandonado, at under three minutes, reaches achingly deep chords. Meme del Real Diaz is the Real Deal, a devastatingly good keyboardist who takes all of the stylistic highlights from the '60s through the new century and plays perfect, original fills. A great closing statement from this band, if the rumors are true, and a mammoth mature album if they're not. Sino is Cafe T at their best.

I saw this band on TV on the World Music program. They are a latin rock band. The lead singer sounds a little like Cheech, (of Cheech and Chong.) My favorite song on the CD is "Eres" You don't have to speak spanish to like this music.

This album is just a MASTERPIECE. I love it every song is incredible. Eres is just the best song EVER. So much passion and love. This is a MUST buy for everybody not only Tacuba fans.

This is such a different album from their previous ones and has a sound of it's own. It's a great road trip CD. Their music is unique and thought provoking. Me encanta!

I own the other Cafe Tacvba albums (with exception of the "Revés/Yo soy") You know, with this band you'll have a diferent taste for every album, which I think is a great thing because they're always innovating with sounds and blending different styles in one cohesive mix. Prove of this is the "Re" album, an excelent mixture of rock, mexican rythms, boleros and even speed metal.

The good news is that this album is still different and innovative: Electronic samples and textures have been added to some tracks, giving a new and fresh sound to the songs of this band (like on "Encantamiento inútil", "Desperté")But we also have the "classic" Tacvba sound in gems like "Tomar el fresco", "Qué pasará", and "Eres" and the frenetic "Eo". But my favorite track here is the dreamy "Mediodía".

I only comlain about some "fillers" on this record (last two tracks and "Recuerdo prestado") I could've been better without these tracks, makig "Cuatro caminos" a solid and perfect production.

Just one little thing, this special edition come with a nice cardboard packaging. Hope this information will be helpfull.

Track list and rating:
01. Cero Y Uno 4/5
02. Eo 4/5
03. Mediodia 5/5
04. Que Pasara 4/5
05. Camino Y Vereda 4/5
06. Eres 5/5
07. Soy o Estoy 3/5
08. Encantamiento Inutil 5/5
09. Recuerdo Prestado 2/5
10. Puntos Cardinales 4/5
11. Desperte 5/5
12. Tomar El Fresco 5/5
13. Hoy Es 2/5
14. Hola Adios 1/5

If you're not much in love with spanish rock, listen to the samples and give the album a chance.
Cafe Tacvba fans, get a copy, this is a must!

If you want to find a great spanish speaking band this is it. Cafe Tacuba is amazing and interesting. The styles are diverse and ever growing and provide a wide range of enjoyablilty. I reccomend this to everyone.

Vine a escuchar mucho de esta banda hace par de meses. Antes no me atraian mucho. haste que vi que eran comparados con mi banda favorita de todos los tiempos, Soda Stereo. Fue tanto el interes en querer saber mas de la banda, que me puse a buscar su musica. Este fue el primer disco que encontre, y al sol de hoy, tengo que escuchar porlomenos una cancion de este disco, DIARIA. Una obra maestra, combinando musica folclorica mexicana con el rock, el jazz, y ondas alternativas. La voz de Cosme es una voz variante, y a la ves, unica. Clave de la agrupacion. Mi cancion favorita, "El Baile y El salon", es una gran cancion. Es hasta el fin de la cancion que te das cuenta que habla d euna pareja homosexual, creo ke eso es parte d ela belleza de la musica de los Tacubos, que traen un mensaje universal lleno de solidaridad. Cafe Tacvba se a convertido en una de mis banda sfavoritas de todos los tiempo, gracias a este gran disco. Los pilares del roc en español : Cerati y Soda Stereo; Robi Draco Rosa; y Cafe Tacvba (en Ningun Orden Especifico.

This is considered by many as Café Tacvba's best album ever, a statement in which I definitely agree.

It is quite difficult to define what this album represents, it shows definitely an evolution, and even though the lyrics' formula is basically the same as in the first album (topics regarding the Mexican culture that go from being for a while in the subway of Mexico city to the old customs of the `Tlatoanis') what made this album so compelling was the wide variety of musical styles that the band decided to include for this work.

During this album we could see where the band was going, Emmanuel started to sing (a pretty cool slam song entitled `El borrego'), the vocalist started to change names (he was known as `Cosme' for this album) and the musical direction they took was vast.

`La ingrata' is nothing but a traditional Mexican song about relationships the Mexican way, `El ciclon' is a song reminiscent of the old progressive rock bands, `Esa noche' a very beautiful ballad about a love long lost.

The 20 tracks included in this album are just unbelievable, every song is different to the other and there is not a single musical style in which to catalogue this album. They attempted several styles and succeeded in all. I can guarantee you that this album will not disappoint but the opposite, everything in this album is just so well done, from the graphic design in the inside booklet to the contents of the cd.

This is a musical jewel that must be part of every music lover collection, regardless of the type of music you like, this album has 20 most enjoyable songs. This album was released in 1994 and I still remember me listening to it all the time in my walkman, a couple of years ago I found it on CD and didn't hesitate to buy it, more that 10 years have passed and this is an album through which years won't pass. A must for music collectors.

This CD is awesome, it makes you think, sing, and dance, all in a smart way. Unlike many songs out there, every song from Re has something interesting to say, accompanied with the sound that characterizes Cafe tacvba for incorporating traditional mexican music with that of their own. The CD has good lyrics, and makes its listening very enjoyable.I definitely recommend it.

Sin duda este disco fusiona el folclor y música típica mexicana, rock y pop. Un gran clásico imperdible para los amates de la música.

If you are a Cafeta fan, you'll really like this cd. This cd has a big range of variety in the moods, styles, rhythms, and everything. You realy can't get bored with this cd. Some of the best songs (to me) is Fin de infancia, Esa Noche, and La Pinta...but like i said, all of them are awesome. If you like this cd, i highly recommend that you check out their other cds like cuatro caminos, valle campana, and tiempo transcurrido. Yeah, what else can i say....they rock. Elfego rocks!!!! aweeee man!!!

Hearing the Kronos Quartet play selections from this album and talk about it one morning on NPR's St. Paul Sunday, I was captivated. They talked about the Mexican composers and musicians and how they had found them, and the instruments they played, the ways in which they were recorded. I wanted to learn more about these unique composers and musicians, and bought the album that morning. However, the liner notes offered absolutely nothing beyond who-played-on-what. It was a many-paged booklet, so cost wasn't a factor. Instead of discussions of these Mexican musicians and their instrumentation and careers, there were a lot of captionless photographs. Boring. The music that is haunting is still, of course, haunting and unique, but the producers could have enriched the whole experience for listeners with some intelligent liner notes. And finally, the last cut on the album: whose idea was that? Crashed the entire ambience that had been so carefully created. Dance mix? Isn't Kronos Quartet beyond such gimmicks?

The recording contains nary an unadulterated string quartet track. Each recording is either electronically altered or features additional instruments, presumably native to Mexico. But, who can tell? The booklet contains no program notes--just 15 pages of unidentified images, presumably from South of the Border. Many of the tracks end with a faux "on location" soundscape. Did the album's producer imagine there was an audience for random street noises, laughter and snippets of conversation? I wanted music, not feeble attempts at sound collage. And then there's the music itself. While each piece was performed with undeniable zeal by Kronos, none of it, in my view, was the least bit memorable. The sole representative from the "classical" repertoire, the arrangement of Revueltas' Sensemaya, illustrated to me just how important the original orchestration is to the success of the piece. Ackk!

I bought it for the one-armed grass-leaf player. It's worth it just for that, but the first track is enough to put you off the rest of the album. It gets better once the rhytms overtake the sound.

At about 66 minutes, this recording is a better value than some of their CDs. But one almost constant complaint that I have with Kronos Quartet releases is their poor or non-existent liner notes. This release is especially guilty. There is a big, thick booklet of worthless photography--mediocre pictures reproduced poorly on cheap paper. Were they trying to throw some some photgraphers a bone? There is nothing about the composers (except their birth dates) or their music, or the musician's perspective, etc. And, since some of the composers are deceased, an opportunity was lost to discuss their music and their lives.

Very, very poor production decisions.

If you by chance still don't know what Kronos`s is about remember that there are two types of chamber music ensembles: Kronos and the rest. So if you have in your mind the traditional sound, aesthetic of a string quartet, go for the rest (Alban Berg, Ittaliano, Melos, Emerson...) and forget Kronos. For if I had only one chance to apply the title- word "avant-garde", I would do it concerning Kronos. They are irreverent. Forget traditional repertoire (and Bartok is traditional for them). As far as I know they play modern music (Glass, Reich, Scnittke) or new repertoire like World Music. They play with amazing virtuosism and richness of textures. If you try to explore Kronos world, open your mind to a new, non conventional type of sounds.
So what is "Nuevo"? A diverse, impressive, multilayered (that is, there are several strata, several kind od compositions) portrait of Mexican music. A comprehensive landscape of Mexican music. But ... not exactly mexican music is what you hear in most of the tracks, but the Kronos' POINT OF VIEW, that is, Mexico through Kronos' glasses. For I don`t find a truly traditional Mexican track (perhaps only "Son Huasteca" and that before 12/12 are those which most resemble to a truly traditional "Mexican" sound). Almost everything in this rich album is a new way of listening to mexican music.
Why? Arrangements are varied and colourfull. Every track shows novelty and spontaneity, even in well known pieces like "Perfidia" or "Sensemaya". All in this CD is "Nuevo (New)": music that you have not listened before, no matter your knowledge on Mexican music!!
The type of music is quite diverse: classical (Sensemaya), TV music (Chavosuite), bolero (Perfidia), local music (Sinaloense), processional music (12/12), even dance music!!
The sound is also quite strange sometimes: the editor distorts some tracks in order to show the quartet as if they were listened through an old radio player. This is quite amazing!!! or listen to 12/12: quartet strings combined with recording of a traditional "ritual" music and fireworks. Also there are includede street noises between the tracks, thus creating a kind of "leitmotive", like a "Concept Album".
Let me say this: I don't care of mexican music. I don't know too much of it. Nor it is something I love. What I like of this CD is not Mexican music legacy but WHAT KRONOS DOES WITH IT. I think they could do the same with every (rich) music culture in the world. The reason why Mexico is chosen perhaps is a personal experience of Kronos' members (as I have red in an interview).
Booklet contains track details, a lot of credits but not a single word of commentary about the music (a pity).
More than great Mexican music, this is a great Kronos show. If you like Kronos or want to investigate what Kronos truly is and /or If you like mexican music, buy it!
If you don't like mexican music, buy it too!! You will think, as I do, that this Kronos release is essential.

This cd has interesting selections, some from movies and some from tv commercials. All good, and a few interesting and unexpected ones, like Spiegel im Spiegel, and Peretuum Mobile (my 2 favorites). You won't recognize those names, but you'll realize you heard them somewhere before.

This is a great CD, includes the final song (before the epilogue) from the great movie Napoleon Dynamite, "Music for a found Harmonium."

I bought this after hearing a live performance of one of my favorite PCO pieces, mistakenly thinking this was a live album.

It's not, it's merely a collection from all of their works with a couple of live tracks included. I prefer hearing the studio tracks on the original albums, each of which has a unique set of instrumentation and atmosphere.

This is a purist's view. If you are looking for an introduction to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, this wouldn't be a bad way to start.

It only took me about an hour Googling around to find "Nothing Really Blue," by The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, the haunting solo piano piece that closes the film, "The Princess And The Warrior." It is NOT included on the soundtrack CD and it is NOT clearly referenced during the credit roll in the film. But this beautiful, stark and mysterious piano composition plays as the two main characters drive away from their troubles and towards their sanctuary on the desolate coast and as the camera slowly pulls back in a long helicopter shot.

I can't stand it, but my grandparents love it.

God bless my ex. He couldn't carry a tune if you elmer glued it to his vocal chords but he turned me on to this wonderful group about a month after we first started dating. As an uptight college student, I used to put on the first two Penquin Cafe Orchestra albums (vinyl no less) to study. I figure if I were going to be tortured by masturbatory French semiotic theorists, the least I could do is have this wonderful music to keep me sane. I am a long way from tearing my hair out over Derridoo, I mean Derrida, but these wonderful Penquin Cafe Orchestra songs have traveled with me to four cities and countless apartments. I have always wanted to choreograph "Perpetuum Mobile" and "Steady Skate" for a pair of ice skaters (lord, what Torvil and Dean could do with those luscious long gliding cello lines), danced around my room to the extravagant silliness, driven uptight musicians crazy who won't admit that minimalism can be as mentally expansive as the pharmacological substances they imbibed in great quantities, marveled at how wonderful a spinet and ukelele could sound together (like an unexpectedly savory meal in a hole-in-the-wall restuarant)in "Giles Farnaby's Dream," consoled myself over bad times and celebrated the good ones with this wonderful music playing somewhere within earshot. I introduced my ex to hundreds of albums over the 8 years we were together before he died, but this is the ONLY music he ever introduced me to, and for that alone I am grateful to have met him. God bless you for that Mr T wherever you may be, and I hope you are happily humming along--offkey of course--to Air A Danser wherever ye may be.

The CD conjured up images of being in a lively French bistro with a wonderful glass of wine, and the pleasant exchange of lively conversations among "locals." I would highly recommend for anyone wanting to set the mood for a themed event or who personally enjoys traditional French accordion music.

Something for everyone in this album,I never thought I could listen to Cafe Tacuba's music without seeing their wild videos at the same time but this album proved me wrong. Their music is like taking a ride with a crazy stranger.

One word, tres letras, WOW! Play it loud!

TT is a must have for Cafe fans! All th songs are great!

Un overall acerca de la carrera de CT. Maravilloso. Bailante. Muy bien compilado.

Cafe Tacuba have a kind of childish mood that may bother some people. If there is a basic story in their lyrics is about the problem of love among younsters, the simple desire for dance, and the weird aspects of love and reality. However, their strenght is their high quality as musicians. Mainly, what should be stressed is both their high capacity for styles mixture and their highly creative covers. They jump from "ranchera" to ska, or reagge , or trash , or disco. Their covers of "Ojalá que llueva café" (Juan Luis Guerra), "No controles" (Mecano) or "Cómo te extraño" (Leo Dan) demonstrate both their creativity and exploration over different kind of music. Tiempo transcurrido is probably the best example of all their "chamaleonistic" capacity. Undoubtely, one of the best recopilation in the rock en español era.