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Lila Downs – Ojo De Culebra / EMI - Manhattan Records Audio CD 2008
UPC 5099922811325
Made in E.U.
Lila Downs (September 9, 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico) is a Mexican/American singer-songwriter. She performs her own compositions as well as Mexican traditional and popular music. She also incorporates indigenous Mexican influences and have recorded songs in indigenous languages such as Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya, Nahuatl and P'urhépecha. Her albums are One Blood, Shake Away, and Sins and Miracles has won various Grammys and World Music Awards.
Ojo de Culebra (English: Shake Away) is the sixth studio album by Mexican Latin singer Lila Downs.
This album was recorded in New York and Mexico. All the songs on this album were composed by Lila Downs and Paul Cohen, except "I Envy The Wind" (by Lucinda Williams) and "I Would Never" (by Paul Buchanan). It includes a version of "Black Magic Woman" by Peter Green. In "Ojo de Culebra" they mix instruments and electronic music. It includes collaborations with Enrique Bunbury, La Mari, Mercedes Sosa and Ramon Gutierrez, among others.
Tracklist:
| 1 | Ojo De Culebra |
| 4:04 | ||
| 2 | Perro Negro |
| 3:02 | |||
| 3 | Little Man | 3:47 | |
| 4 | Tierra De Luz |
| 3:41 | ||
| 5 | Justicia |
| 3:02 | ||
| 6 | Black Magic Woman |
| 3:12 | |||
| 7 | Skeleton | 3:02 | |
| 8 | Yo Envidio El Viento (I Envy The Wind) | 3:44 | |
| 9 | Taco De Palabras | 3:05 | |
| 10 | Minimum Wage | 4:08 | |
| 11 | I Would Never | 4:44 | |
| 12 | Los Pollos |
| 3:17 | |||
| 13 | Silent Thunder |
4:44
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- Recorded At – East Side Sound
- Recorded At – Bass Hit Studios
- Recorded At – AT Studio
- Mastered At – Sterling Sound
- Accordion – Rob Curto
- Acoustic Guitar – Angelito Chacon
- Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Juancho Herrera, Ken Basman, Raul Midón
- Arranged By – Lila Downs, Paul Cohen (5)
- Arranged By [Horn Arrangements] – Brian Lynch
- Bass – Booker King
- Clarinet – Anat Cohen
- Drums, Percussion – Yayo
- Engineer – Aneiro Taño, Dave Darlington
- Harp, Violin, Guitar, Jarana, Guitar [Leona Jarocha], Vihuela, Charango, Quenacho, Sampona – Celso Duarte
- Mastered By – Greg Calbi
- Producer – Aneiro Taño, Brian Lynch, Lila Downs, Paul Cohen (5)
- Tambourine, Rattle [Quijada] – Gilberto Gutierrez
- Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Paul Cohen (5)
- Translated By – Lila Downs
- Trombone, Tuba – Clark Gayton
- Trumpet, Horn [Alto Horn] – Brian Lynch
- Voice – Lila Downs
Track 2: Ixaya Mazatzin Tleytól appears credited as "Ixaya Mazatzin Tleytól de Café Tacvba".
