Re (Café Tacuba album)

Re
Studio album by Café Tacuba
Released	July 22, 1994
Recorded	Cuernavaca and Los Angeles, in studios CAN-AM and DEVONSHIRE
Genre	Latin Alternative, Rock en español, norteño
Length	59:53
Label	Warner Music Mexico
Producer	Gustavo Santaolalla
Café Tacuba chronology
Café Tacuba (1992) Re (1994) Avalancha de Éxitos (1996)

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Re was Café Tacuba's second and perhaps most important contribution to Mexico's music scene. The album was called "the equivalent of the Beatles 'White Album' for the rock en español movement" by the New York Times.^[1] The name probably comes from the second syllable in Solfege, perhaps because it was their second album. It was released in 1994 and consisted of twenty songs.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"El Aparato" ("The Apparatus")	Albarrán	3:19
2.	"La Ingrata" ("The Ungrateful Woman")	Del Real	3:32
3.	"El Ciclón" ("The Cyclone")	Del Real Albarrán	2:55
4.	"El Borrego" ("The Sheep")	Del Real	2:08
5.	"Esa Noche" ("That Night")	J. Rangel E. Rangel	3:27
6.	"24 Horas" ("24 Hours")	J. Rangel	2:19
7.	"Ixtepec" ("Ixtepec")	J. Rangel Del Real	3:21
8.	"Trópico de Cáncer" ("Tropic of Cancer")	Albarrán	4:38
9.	"El Metro" ("The Subway")	Del Real	3:46
10.	"El Fin de la Infancia" ("Childhood's End")	J. Rangel	2:19
11.	"Madrugal" ("Song for Dawn")	E. Rangel	1:08
12.	"Pez" ("Fish")	J. Rangel Del Real	2:18
13.	"Verde" ("Green")	Albarrán	1:55
14.	"La Negrita" ("The Little Black Woman")	J. Rangel E. Rangel	3:05
15.	"El Tlatoani del Barrio" ("The King of the Neighborhood")	Albarrán	3:27
16.	"Las Flores" ("The Flowers")	Del Real	2:16
17.	"La Pinta" ("Hooky/Skive")	Albarrán	2:49
18.	"El Baile y el Salón" ("The Dance and the Ballroom")	J. Rangel Del Real	5:08
19.	"El Puñal y el Corazón" ("The Dagger and the Heart")	Albarrán	4:22
20.	"El Balcón" ("The Balcony")	Albarrán	1:41

Legacy

Re album established Café Tacuba's style of genre-switching, which hadn't been as prominent in their debut album, Café Tacuba, released two years earlier. Its sheer length - an hour long - and experimentation with musical styles has made it a favorite among fans. One notable aspect of the album is that it contains several musical genres, notably norteño, huapango, Banda, and Bolero music.

The album is considered by some to be the best Latin American album of all time.^[2][3]

Personnel

Band members

• Cosme (Rubén Albarrán): lead vocals
• Emmanuel Del Real: keyboards, acoustic guitar, piano, programming, drum machine, backing vocals, lead vocals, melodeon
• Joselo Rangel: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, jarana, backing vocals
• Quique Rangel: bass guitar, electric upright bass, guitarron, backing vocals

Art

• Sergio Toporek and Rubén Albarrán

References

1. "Madcap Music by a Mexican Band With Its Ears to the World". New York Times. 24 August 2006. Retrieved 10 January 2006.
2. http://www.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/a9662747c48c8d3b6218fe1afc0aff35
3. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-10-greatest-latin-rock-albums-of-all-time-20121119/cafe-tacuba-re-aa994-19691231

• http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/04/arts/madcap-music-by-a-mexican-band-with-its-ears-to-the-world.html