Plan De La Villa, Traditional Mariachi, Volume 1

Collection Contents

#		Title	Length
1		Introduction	0:11
2		Amapolita Morada	3:01
3		La Banda	2:35
4		Plan de la Villa	3:46
5		El Guaco	3:42
6		Los Arroyitos	2:43
7		El Indio	3:31
8		Introduction	0:06
9		Asi es Tecolotlan	3:41
10		Los Arrieros	4:06
11		El Pitayero	3:25
12		Introduction	0:18
13		El Tesmo	3:12
14		El Becerrero	4:20
15		Introduction	0:08
16		El Perro	3:41

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Plan de la Villa
Traditional Mariachi Volume 1
Los Cenzontles with Julian Gonzalez


Unique in its unvarnished folk style, Los Cenzontles with Julian Gonzlez should satisfy the most demanding of purists, offering the listener a taste of the mariachi as it sounded in the era before commercialization. In all of these sones, a fresh, zestful and "down-home" enthusiasm prevails, one that we seldom hear in garden-variety commercial mariachis. Cultural purists, rejoice. Review by Dr. Manuel Pea, Fresno State University

PLAN DE LA VILLA is both a significant document of rarely heard sones abajeos of the traditional mariachi as well as an energetic and attractive recording for all audiences. Los Cenzontles, under the tutelage of Julian Gonzalez, have applied their artistry and scholarship to the relatively unknown roots of mariachi music. Distinct from the orchestral nature of the contemporary mariachi, PLAN DE LA VILLA resurrects the improvisatory spirit of the traditional rural mariachi. Its instrumentation is simple: 2 violins, vihuela, guitarron and vocal duet. Some cuts include zapateado the traditional percussive dancing upon a tarima, or wooden platform.

Julian Gonzalez is one of very few remaining practioners of the traditional mariachi. Julian Gonzalez was raised on a rural hacienda in Camichines, Municipality of Juchitlan, Jalisco. There, he learned to sing, dance, and play violin from his father and the other elders of the ranch during the parties that followed long harvests in the sugar cane fields. In 1997, he, along with other rural musicians, formed Mariachi Los Centenarios in order to compete in the fifth Encuentro Mundial de Mariachi in Guadalajara, Mexico. There they took second place in the category of traditional mariachi, which is performed without trumpets (a modern addition). In 2000, he began working with Los Cenzontles funding by the California Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, a project administered by the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA). In 2001 Don Julian was one of four elder master artists featured in the touring festival Cuatro Maestros. Their creative collaboration results in this unique compact disc.

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