Frida [Music from the Motion Picture]
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Brand: TCMComposer: Elliot Goldenthal
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-10-22
Model: 028947415022
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Product features:
- SOUNDTRACK FRIDA
- Benediction and Dream
- The Floating Bed
- El Conejo
- Paloma Negra
- Self-Portrait with Hair Down
- Alcoba Azul
- Carabina 30/30
- Solo Tu
- El Gusto
- The Journey
- El Antifaz
- The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
- La Cavalera
- La Bruja
- Portrait of Lude
- La Llorona
- Estrella Oscura
- Still Life
- Viva La Vida
- The Departure
- Coyoacan and Variations
- La Llorona
- Burning Bed
- Burn It Blue
Music reviews of Frida [Music from the Motion Picture]
Music Review: Experience the emotion and sound of historic Mexico
Rating: 5 Stars
This is an excellent CD, capturing the feel of the fanstastic motion picture on the life of Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo. Frida's life is fully embedded in the culture and history of Mexico. Her strength drew on Mexican values and cultural strengths, the life and vitality and resiliency of the Mexican people. Therefore any film about her must capture this aspect of Frida. She and her work are fully emersed in the context of her people and their struggle. The film is able to accomplish this and the soundtrack also succeeds marvelously by capturing the cultural context of Mexican struggles. Elliott Goldenthal's compositions work well with the original Mexican musical artists to move the narrative forward and his ability to honor the folk songs and compliment them with seemless compositions of his own deserves the highest recognition.
The musical ambiance of the entire CD is intimate, folksong, familial, and personal. The CD has outstanding Mexican artists such as Lila Downs, but also has the songs and voices of villagers, reflecting a culture that puts hte joys and hardship of the human experience into song.
Lila Downs starts the CD with a haunting and emotive "Benediction and Dream". "El Conejo" which means, The Rabbit, is performed next with a Mexican child's voice prominent in the song to reflect the childlike and whimsical song about catching rabbits in the morning. The song is very authentic with the Mexican child singing a bit off key.
In terms of historical accuracy, the CD includes songs that were known to be favorites of both Frida Kahlo and her life partner, Diego Rivera. "La Bruja" was a favorite of Rivera and here is performed by Salma Hayek and Los Vega. This song is about witches, who abduct people only to suck their blood and bone marrow. It would seem so appropraite that Rivera would like such a work, grounded in Spanish and Mexican folklore and horror tinged with seduction and sexual overtones.
"La Llorona" was a favorite of Frida's. Here it is performed first by Chavela Vargas and then later by Lila Downs and the Mariachi Juvenile de Tecalitlan. The first presentation is tragic and emotive and the second is more joyous and celebratory. The term La Llorona is the weeping woman. Here it is a song of seduction by a singer who calls himself/herself the Black One, spicy like the green chili. It is of importance that Chavela Vargas, who performs in the film, was once lovers with Frida Kahlo. There is a sexual ambibuity about La Llorona that makes the listener uncertain if the Black One that seduces the weeping woman is male or female. Chevela Vargas also sings the song Paloma Negra, or Black Dove, again a song full of painful emotion over the inability of the lover to contain their desire for the beautiful Black Dove, a party girl. Chevela Vargas, despite her age, performs with powerful emotion.
El Poder del Norte perform "Carabina 30/30"; then the Marimberos Trio sing "Viva Ls Vida", and we also hear Trio Huaseco Caimanes de Tamuin perfomr "El Gusto" , all three of these are wonderful pieces that evokes the feel of sadness and joy, strife and pleasure, fatalism and a life fully lived. Elliott Goldenthal composed a work for Lila Downs for the film, "Alcoba Azul". Downs' ability to evoke the soul of the Spanish gypsy is evident. She sings as if sexual passion was so painful that only intercourse can kill the pain. Also, Brazillian artist Caetano Veloso sings with Lila Downs in the final piece "Burn it Blue".
Salma Hayek, with the interity of a great artist, ensured the film was truthful and reflected the individual struggle of Frida Kahlo. The soundtrack is also the genuine article. It is highly recommended.
Description of Frida [Music from the Motion Picture]
SOUNDTRACK FRIDAShe was famous as both artist and model, infamous as political revolutionary and social libertine, and Frida Kahlo's controversial life couldn't help but seem the stuff of great musical theater. Her story is brought to the screen by director Julie Taymor, whose musical compatriot here is also her husband; Elliot Goldenthal, student of both Copland and Corigliani, shrewdly sublimates his modernism in service of the rich, evocative music and songs of Mexico and Central America. Utilizing performers that range from the contemporary (Lila Downs) to the folk-classic (Costa Rican legend Chavela Vargas; Brazilian star Caetano Veloso) and traditional (Los Cojolites, El Poder Del Norte, Trio Huasteca, Caimanes de Tanquin, and others), Goldenthal generously displays the true breadth of Mexican folk music, while seamlessly infusing it with the minimalist corners of his own underscore and some winning songwriting of his own. The result is one of 2002's most compelling soundtracks. The enhanced CD features include musical film excerpts, as well as a video conversation between Goldenthal and star Salma Hayek and text interviews with the composer and director Taymor. --Jerry McCulley
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