AQUI is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel: Julieta Venegas (vocals, piano, accordion, vibraphone, keyboards, programming); Gustavo Santaolalla (guitar, percussion, background vocals); Joselo Rangel (guitar); Pavel Farkas, Gail Cruz-Farkas (violin); Ron Strauss (viola); John Acosta (cello); Don Markese (clarinet, claron); Enrique Rangel, Graham Edwards (bass); Curt Bisquera, Patricio Iglesias (drums); Rafael Gonzalez (percussion).
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Why, why does the lovely Julieta look so forlorn? Like a Mexican Fiona Apple, she's in fact one of the hippest rockeras around--she writes practically all of her own material, sings, and plays a mean accordion, too. AQUI also happens to be produced by one of the biggest figures in '90s rock en Espanol, Gustavo Santaolalla.
"Oportunidad" is a superb piece of anguish, with Julieta's insistent, alluring warble swathed in a throbbing curl of clarinet, vibraphone, accordion, and stripped-down drum programming. "Antes" furthers the whole "once-I-had, now-I'm-craving" tragedy with an undercurrent of thrumming cello, pizzicato violins, and a bass-accordion melody that evokes images of high-sailing ships. Cafe Tacuba's Joselo Rangel adds some guitar to "Como Se," a sweet, Brazilian-tinged musing on truth and knowing. Look, listen, then fall in love with her--it's as easy as 1-2-3!
