Customer Reviews

Men With Guns: A New Film From John Sayles (1997 Film)

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While some of the tracks I personally find weak (they butcher the lovely "fiesta in corraleja", and the rap leaves me cold), I still gives this collection 5 stars for three reasons:
1) a great breadth - gives you an excellent sampling of various flavors of latin music, some quite obscure
2) "Cumbia en do menor", by Lito Barrientos, my favorite Cumbia of all time.
3) "Mohana", by Toto la Momposina, one of the most haunting songs I've ever heard.
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This movie was wonderful and disturbing, and the soundtrack is chock full of new-to-me and listenable artists and music. I listen to it still,although it has been years since I first saw the movie.

This Cd has a contains a good cross section of Latin American music that can be used as a spring board into specific Latin-American music genres.

Excellent creativity in this wide ranging soundtrack. 1/3 dark, moody music and the rest is either instrumental or upbeat.

I use this to help me get into my Spanish role-playing character's mindset.

Chris