The Streets/Las Calles
© Copyright-German Cantillo
(775020508125)
Record Label: Santa Lucia LFR
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In 2001, Santa Lucia recorded their first 5 song EP with producer Darryl Nuedorf (Sarah McLachlan, Neko Case).
2005 brought a Western Canada Music Awards nomination for Best Children’s Recording, for the song “The Hero Inside” (2004) penned for the TV cartoon series Cackleberries.
In 2006, Santa Lucia released their second full length album, “The Streets / Las Calles” with legendary producer Larry Anschell (Nickelback, Pearl Jam) from Turtle Recording Studios in White Rock, BC Canada. Santa Lucia successfully supported “The Streets / Las Calles” in 2007-2008 with countless west coast dates and major open air festivals including; Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Vancouver Dragon Boat Festival, as well as many out of town festivals including The Ness Creek Music Festival in Saskatchewan, Folk on the Rocks Festival in Yellowknife NWT, Victoria Ska Festival and many more.
CBC Radio gave the first single “Lupita” heavy rotation, with the band performing a live show across Canada hosted by one of Canada’s best known news personalities Gloria Makarenko and “On the Coast” radio host Prya Ramu.
Recently, Santa Lucia LFR has refined its stage skills opening for many USA and International touring acts such as Ozomatli, Yerba Buena, Los Mococos, The Skatalites and Maxi Priest.
2009 brings with it countless tour dates with bigger audiences, a greater following of fans, and a return to the studio to record the follow up to 2006’s “The Streets / Las Calles”
The Streets/ Las Calles is an enhanced CD which contains a video of behind the scene on the recording of the album, plus links and photos for your enjoyment.
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The songs are balance between vocal tracks and horny intrumental track with plen
author: Monday Magazine. Victoria, BC.
Certain music are meant to be listened to at certain temperatures. Quiet, introspective folk for a chill autumn; boisterous pop in the enlivening spring. But anything even slightly funky, especialy when it comes with Latin tinges, just screams to be enjoy when summer is in full swing.
Last week's rain may have made it seem like summer is still a ways off, but that sticky, moist warmth is even more fitting for Santa Lucia's dense groove. Pack the Vancouver sextet on-stage at a nightclub and you've got a recipe for hotness.
Bill Stuart
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Arguably the first local Rock en Espanol CD in Vancouver.
author: The Province Newspaper. Vancouver, BC.
Curiously, this world music phenomenon mostly passed us by in terms of both tours and influencing local combos but Santa Lucia LFR's new release "The Streets/Las Calles" (Grade: A-) changes all that. Arguably the first local Rock en Espanol CD in Vancouver. No doubt!. With its big brass section blaring and a salsa-funk rhythm that brings early Santana to mind, songs such as "Lupita" or "Un Funk Cabron" could make a wallflower start bustin' moves.
For this album, Santa Lucia left the syrup at home and only brought the hot sauce.
Stuart Derdeyn
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From the ashes of his last group's desintegration came the idea of Santa Lucia L
author: The Latin Connection
The collision of styles can be heard in the group's new release, particularly their version of the song "Lupita" which starts with a very pure Cuban sound played by the strong, blatty wind section, then halts abruptly and breaks into a crowd-jumping chorus, which is pushed aside by an assertive trombone solo, them combine with the chorus and finally finished off in a cool, detached guitar solo.
Santa Lucia LFR's first CD was independently released by the group itself. The ideology behind the album is a conscious approach to social issues, as Cantillo explains. The tittle of one of the album cuts, "Las calles Lloran Libertad/The Streets Cry Freedom", expresses this sentiment. Nevertheless, Cantillo and the other members of the group always balance their songs of social commentary with songs that touch on issues of everyday life that are great for shaking out stress.
Tanya Kliefoth
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