Cuatro Copas, Bohemia en la Finca Altozano is La Santa Cecilia’s quinceañera. Los Angeles band La Santa Cecilia is celebrating 15 years collectively. They not too long ago traveled to an property in Baja California to document a brand new album with mates
Los Angeles band La Santa Cecilia is celebrating 15 years collectively. They not too long ago traveled to an property in Baja California to document a brand new album with mates.
Humberto Howard
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Humberto Howard
Los Angeles band La Santa Cecilia is celebrating 15 years collectively. They not too long ago traveled to an property in Baja California to document a brand new album with mates.
Cuatro Copas, Bohemia en la Finca Altozano
Humberto Howard
Because the solar goes down in Baja’s Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico’s wine nation, members of the Los Angeles band La Santa Cecilia, their shut mates and some particular friends collect round a bonfire. The band is taking part in and singing Mexican rancheras, some ballads and boleros or love songs.
Lead singer La Marisoul says lots of the songs on their new album are a part of their private historical past, rising up in downtown LA, surrounded by Mexican musicians who taught them easy methods to sing and play.
“I did not actually be taught this music from recordings; I realized it from stay musicians taking part in on the road,” she says. “A few of these songs are songs we might like to interpret from approach again, earlier than La Santa Cecilia, after we have been Marisol y Los Hermanos Carlos, singing on the weekends at Placita, singing at weddings, at quinceañeras and issues like that.”
That is the band’s quinceañera, a festive and joyous celebration of their 15 years collectively, taking part in the music they love. The band needed to do a stay recording in a rustic property in Baja California for the celebration. Beneath the music, you may hear the sound of crickets, birds and a light-weight breeze.
The vibe right here on the Finca Altozano can greatest be described as a bohemian night time full of music, dialog and a few imbibing. Therefore the album’s title, Cuatro Copas, Bohemia en la Finca Altozano – 4 Drinks, Bohemia on the Altozano Property.
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Guitarist and accordionist Pepe Carlos says the album consists of songs from their households.
“Songs that have been inherited by our dad and mom whereas they have been listening to at house,” he says. “Songs like ‘Pescadores de Ensenada’ de Los Cadetes de Linares. We have been listening to all this music at house. So, I believe it is also a bridge between our dad and mom, our roots musically.”
As a band, La Santa Cecilia has been a great automobile for them to experiment with all types of American and Latin music. They’ve performed every part from rock to cumbia, pop tunes and ballads. And so they’ve recorded albums in English, Spanish and Spanglish. La Marisoul says there’s nothing like singing songs with mates across the hearth.
“I like being on the stage, I like being on tour, I like being on the street, I like taking part in festivals, like Vive Latino and all that stuff,” she says. “However there’s simply one thing about getting along with your pals and simply singing music and simply having fun with music in its easiest kind, , with the guitar, con un Mezcalito, and sin mas, no?”
This album opens a window into the band’s private lives. It is a glimpse of how the group thrives and creates group, says percussionist Miguel Ramírez. “And it is so cool to have the ability to simply be like, ‘that is who we’re, that is how we stay, that is what we do for enjoyable, that is what we do for enjoyment,’ and we hope that you simply get to be part of it by means of this document.”
The band invited a couple of visitor singers to hitch them within the recording for this particular anniversary celebration. One of many friends was Patricio Hidalgo, a “Son Jarocho” artist from Mexico’s Gulf state of Veracruz. The Grammy-winning musician says he is impressed by the band’s pure capacity to play and document music on the “spur of the second.”
“It is astonishing how the band may be so laid again and play so relaxed,” he says. “All the pieces you’ll hear on this recording was carried out proper right here, stay. There was no such factor as reaching an settlement, earlier rehearsal or music association.”
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Bass participant Alex Bendaña says this album is a testomony to the band’s resilience, being collectively as a household, and making music for 15 years. “I believe it is very uncommon for bands to begin off in LA and find yourself with an incredible profession,” he says. “Yearly was a unique expertise of evolution within the band or our particular person individual. We have been all the time rising collectively.”
La Santa Cecilia not too long ago carried out in entrance of 1000’s of adoring followers at Mexico Metropolis’s Vive Latino, the nation’s greatest music pageant. Talking emotionally and tearing up, singer La Marisoul says that after 15 years of attempting to hook up with audiences in Mexico with their music, they’re lastly getting it.
“Feeling that love and feeling that appreciation, and that reference to our brothers and sisters with our motherland, con México, that makes me really feel very proud, very grateful, to have the ability to stay this second and share our story with folks, now.”
