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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