Album Notes

This is Pistolera's first 5 song demo.
For their debut album "Siempre Hay Salida" please go to: www.cdbaby.com/cd/pistolera2

Pistolera is a NYC-based band the plays an original hybrid of mexican ranchera, cumbia, banda, and rock. Accordion melodies are followed by distorted riffs and frontwoman Sandra Lilia Velasquez delivers her all Spanish lyrics like a bullet to your senses.

Pistolera is:
Sandra Velaquez - guitar/vox
Inca B. Satz - bass
Maria Elena - accordion
Ani Cordero - drums

"Groove along with Pistolera, Sandra Lilia Velasquez's and Ani Cordero's funky band, which blends together ranchera, cumbia, banda and rock sounds. Velasquez's intoxicating voice and her passion while playing the electric guitar, matched with Cordero's driving drum style, make for quite a spectacular live performance." -New York Post

"The band's songs, mostly sung in Spanish mix down-home Mexican norteño rhythms like cumbias, rancheras and bandas with rootsy indie-rock." -New York Press

"Jumpy Tex-Mex polkas and dark border ballads from chicana cousins Sandra Velasquez and Ani Cordero..." -Village Voice

"Pistolera se caracteriza por su pop latino que parte del folkor mexicano recreado en el rock. El estilo con que Maria Elena toca el acordeón, la dulzura de los coros de la baterista Ani Cordero, a la vez que no descuida la relación del ritmo con el bajo, ejecutado por Inca B. Satz, hacen junto a la majia progresiva de Sandra una Buena propuesta musical." -ASCAP Latino