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Released: 1998-08-18

Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 Star
Media: Audio CD
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Title Tracks for La Llorona
  • 1. De Cara a La Pared (Face to the Wall)
  • 2. Celestina (Celestina)
  • 3. Desierto (The Desert)
  • 4. Por Eso Me Quedo (That's Why I'm Staying)
  • 5. Payande (The Payande)
  • 6. Peces (The Fish)
  • 7. Floricanto (Floricanto)
  • 8. Desdeñosa (Disdainful)
  • 9. Pájaro (The Bird)
  • 10. Mi Vanidad (My Vanity)
  • 11. Arbol del Olvido (The Tree of Forgetfulness)

Product Review
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
Lhasa De Sela has distinguished herself as a singer and storyteller with her debut album, La Llorona. The 25-year-old Montreal resident, who grew up traveling through Mexico while living on a school bus, sings of her tortured heart with the accompaniment of guitarist-producer-arranger Yves Desrosiers and a cabaret-style band. Already compared to those of Edith Piaf and Billie Holiday, De Sela's haunting voice is memorable on each of the 11 songs (only 3 are nonoriginal) that range in inspiration from Mexican ranchera to Eastern European klezmer. --Cristina Del Sesto
Amazon.com
Half Mexican American, half Jewish American and all rainbow chile, singer Lhasa de Sela's Spanish-language, world music/alt-rock debut shimmers with honest emotionalism, with no trace of the posturing and whining that passes these days for deep, girlish thoughts. The girl's young, but she's equipped with imagination, confidence, and technique enough to take that husky, urgent alto anywhere she wants. And she goes there. Guitarist-producer-arranger Yves Desrosiers cloaks all this splendor in rapturous arrangements that include, among other elements, the sound of rain, flamenco-influenced guitar, and a slide bass of his own design. Even if you don't understand Spanish, you can't miss the point ... the feelings. Lhasa's just begun, but her stranger-than-fiction background and dazzling gifts already place her among music's top-rung storytellers. --Elena Oumano

Product Details
La Llorona
  • Audio CD: 0 pages (1998-08-18)
  • Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
  • Label: Atlantic / Wea
  • Studio: Atlantic / Wea
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 Star based on 74 reviews
  • Sales Rank in Music: #3909

Customer Reviews
Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 Star

Customer Rating: 5 Star
Summary: La Llorona 2009-10-26
Comment: If it's something melodic and hypnotizing that your looking for than look no further because you've found it. Not only is this entire C.D. beautiful it's haunting and will stay in you for months each time you hear it. It's quite Remarkable.
Customer Rating: 5 Star
Summary: La Lorona 2009-08-29
Comment: Growing up on the border in South Texas and traveling through much of Mexico over the yeras, this recording brought back a lot of memories through De Sela's Rachera style. The added bonus was the eastern European influence which I wasn't familiar with but enjoyed very much once I heard it.To use an overused word, her music is haunting and unique and because of this I relate her to another one of a kind singer in her own right, Enya.
Customer Rating: 5 Star
Summary: Haunting and totally out of this world!! 2009-05-04
Comment: There's not one song I dislike. Every time I listen to this CD, I never skip songs and it never gets boring. I can't believe it took me this long to review this cd. Lhasa has the most amazing voice. I went to see her live and even though it was only her and two musicians I think, well, she commanded the attention of the audience. I get chills when I listen to this cd. One of my all time favorite CDs!!!
Customer Rating: 5 Star
Summary: Lhasa's La Llorona 2007-02-19
Comment: I can't get enough of this woman's music! I shout More, More,More!
Customer Rating: 5 Star
Summary: SUPRISE, SORPRESA 2007-01-04
Comment: Este Cd ha sido mi sorpresa del año 2006 Puede ser un CD de música mejicana una obra maestra???. Si la respuesta es YES, entonces La Llorona="Obra maestra". Lhasa no tiene una voz de las que podríamos calificar de "bonita", pero sí que es carismática y tremendamente expresiva. Si a ello añadimos que las canciones presentan unas letras originales, con sentido y mensaje, unos ritmos que se meten en tu sangre y te acompañan allá adonde vayas, unos arreglos musicales "teatrales" en el mejor sentido del término y unos instrumentos musicales irreprochablemente bien tocados, el resultado dificilmente puede mejorarse. No tengo ni idea si Lhasa está arriba o abajo en el raking de las cantantes superventas. Pero si es lo primero....es lógico,y si es lo segundo...esperemos que tarde o temprano, LHASA, se haga justicia con tu forma de enteder la música.
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