Santiago Jimenez Jr. hails from a long lineage of groundbreaking musicians, and after decades of writing and recording, and
two Grammy nominations, it's hard to fathom which roads, or “calles,” he has yet to travel down. For his new album, 'Still Kicking!,' Santiago selected songs with an authentic San Antonio sound, capturing the hard driving conjunto music popularized in the early 1960s....more
supported by 5 fans who also own “Al Mirar Tu Cara”
Very happy a colleague recommended Mdou Moctar to me after I discovered & fell in love with Tinariwen and this new (to me) desert blues sound! Mdou Moctar inject more of a psychedelic sensibility into their music rather than Tinariwen's drone, making it flavorfully distinctive, while still carrying that shining, twanging, sun-drenched sound we all love about Saharan desert rock. Love the grooving rhythms and the alternately snappy clean or drowned-in-effects guitar melodies. Excellent work! pinkytheent