In
a dark corner of the Palace on Tuesday, a pale young
Mexican man adjusted the knobs of his minidisc player,
getting ready to surreptitiously record the upcoming
concert by Enrique Bunbury.
"There's hundreds of Bunbury bootlegs out there,
you know," he said when asked about the Spanish
rock star. "I don't know of any American singer
who's been bootlegged as much as Bunbury."
Although virtually unknown in this country, Bunbury
is idolized in Spain and Latin America for his rock-star
mystique, smoky voice and plaintive lyrics. It was the
fervor of his fans, chanting the words to every song,
that helped turn Tuesday's sold-out performance into
an intense, one-of-a-kind event.
Confident in his rapport with the audience and surrounded
by an excellent nine-piece band, Bunbury devoted most
of the show to his latest studio album, "Pequeno
Cabaret Ambulante" (Little Traveling Cabaret).
Released two years ago, the album has become something
of a contemporary classic in the world of Latin rock.
It also signifies Bunbury's coming of age as a singer-songwriter.
Abandoning the more obvious hard-rock tendencies of
his former band, Heroes del Silencio, "Cabaret"
is the rock en espanol version of a Fellini movie, complete
with brassy circus grotesqueness, blood-dripping ballads
of metaphysical nostalgia and nocturnal hymns that conclude
with the sound of seagulls and crashing waves.
Bunbury's fusion of disparate elements--flamenco, arena
rock, Middle Eastern, ranchera , tango--sounded delightful
onstage, mirroring the evolution of Latin rock from
a copycat genre obsessed with U.S. and English rock
aesthetics to a movement of wide sonic possibilities.
Cortesía:
Jorge Oliva Álvarez | Bunbury News
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