Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Benediction and Dream - Lila Downs
2. Floating Bed, The
3. El Conejo - Los Cojolites
4. Paloma Negra - Chavela Vargas
5. Self-Portrait With Hair Down
6. Alcoba Azul - Lila Downs
7. Carabina 30/30 - El Poder Del Norte
8. Solo Tu
9. El Gusto - Trio Huasteco Caimanes De Tamuin
10. Journey, The
11. El Antifaz - Liberacion/Miguel Galindo/Alejandro Marehuala/Gerardo Garcia
12. Suicide of Dorothy Hale, The
13. La Cavalera
14. La Bruja - Salma Hayek/Los Vega
15. Portrait of Lupe
16. La Llorona - Chavela Vargas
17. Estrella Oscura - Lila Downs
18. Still Life
19. Viva la Vida - Trio/Marimberos
20. Departure, The
21. Coyoacan and Variations
22. La Llorona - Lila Downs/Mariachi Juvenil De Tecalitlan
23. Burning Bed
24. Burn It Blue - Caetano Veloso/Lila Downs
| | Details | | Producer: | Elliot Goldenthal, Teese Gohl | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Original score composed by Elliot Goldenthal.
Recorded at Manhattan Center, Zarathustra Hall, New York, New York and Churubusco Studios, Mexico City, Mexico. Includes liner notes by Elliot Goldenthal.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
The first cut of this beautifully haunting soundtrack to an exotically seductive movie sums it up; Lila Downs's impassioned vocal and the almost ambient Latin overtones of the instrumental backing all point to a compelling trip through a mysterious Mexico that in the mid-20th century was still terra incognita to most Westerners. FRIDA is packed with musical jewels, such as the inclusion of Chavela Vargas's "Paloma Negra," recorded 40 years earlier. Vargas, a former lover of Frida Kahlo's, gives a performance that's more like a force of nature than anything else, devoid of sentimentality and yet viscerally affecting. But it's Lila Downs, who's featured throughout this soundtrack CD, who carries the show, particularly in her performance with the legendary Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso on "Burn it Blue," penned by the movie's director, Julie Taymor. Atmospheric instrumentals abound, and wonderful folk song vignettes are interspersed throughout, giving FRIDA an air of authenticity and purpose that lifts it head and shoulders above the usual run-of-the-mill Hollywood soundtrack collection.
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