Los Lobos is celebrating the 20th
anniversary of their seminal album Kiko
with the Aug. 21 release of Kiko 20th Anniversary Edition on CD, Kiko
Live on CD, DVD and a 2-disc Blu-ray/CD set from Shout! Factory.
The Kiko 20th Anniversary Edition features bonus material, including demo
versions of album tracks and live recordings, and new liner notes written by
LA journalist
and longtime friend of the band, Luis Torres.
Kiko
Live captures a 2006 performance at House Of
Blues San Diego, where the band performed the release in its entirety, during a string of shows devoted to the album. Never
before released or broadcast, Kiko Live
also contains interviews with the band and others involved in the making of the
studio album.
The Los
Angeles Times premiered a performance clip of “Kiko and the
Lavendar Moon” from Kiko Live http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/05/los-lobos-kiko-20th-anniversary-live-video.html.
Released in 1992, Kiko was embraced by fans and hailed by
critics as the band’s defining moment, the album that put Los Lobos back
on the innovation path.
The album was produced by Mitchell Froom, who received a Grammy nomination for Producer of the Year for his work on the album, and who had previously collaborated with the band on La Bamba. Los Lobos took home an MTV Music Video Award for Breakthrough Video for “Kiko and the Lavender Moon” in 1993.
Prior to Kiko,
Los Lobos had been “segregating our influences, treating them
parochially,” as Steve Berlin puts it: a rockabilly tune here, a Tex-Mex
there, some folk, a bit of country, an R&B tune, plenty of classic rock.
This time, they decided to take all of those myriad influences out of their
separate boxes, toss them into the air and let them fall where they might. “Whatever
our unconscious minds’ response was to the stimuli, that was what we
wanted. We let our imagination take over and didn’t try to control
it.”
They began recording new original
Hidalgo-Pérez compositions such as “Two Janes,”
“Peace,” “Arizona Skies,” “Short Side of
Nothing” and “Rio de Tenampa,” self-producing and following
their instincts sound-wise.
Comments the band’s Cesar Rosas, “With
that album we didn’t want to be tied down to all the conventional ways of
recording, so we started experimenting and making up sounds.”
To date the band from East L.A.
has recorded 18 albums, including
their most recent studio album, 2010’s Tin
Can Trust. They’ve won multiple Grammy Awards, and continue to
tour regularly.
Born out of the desire to have a community-conscious
event celebrating food, culture and music in their hometown, Los Lobos recently
held the First Annual Los Lobos
Cinco de Mayo Festival at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre. The festival
featured performances by pre-eminent LA bands X and Mariachi El Bronx, among
others, with special guests Neko Case, Alejandro Escovedo, Dave Alvin, Phil
Alvin, and Flaco Jiménez joining Los Lobos
on stage.
Next year Los Lobos will celebrate 40
years together; its lineup has remained
uninterrupted since 1984, when Steve Berlin joined original members Louie Pérez, David
Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas, and Conrad Lozano, each of whom had been there since the
beginning in 1973.
“This is what happens when five guys
create a magical sound, then stick together for 30 years to see how far it can
take them,” wrote Rolling Stone,
and indeed, Los Lobos is a band that continually reboots itself and expands its
scope with each passing year, while never losing sight of where they came from.
“There’s this thing that still
happens, this musical thing,” says Pérez. “But if you took
everything away, even the music, you’d still end up with four guys who
were friends and hung out and grew up in the same neighborhood. And you
can’t take that friendship away from us.”
Kiko 20th Anniversary Edition Track
Listing
1. Dream In Blue
2. Wake Up Dolores
3. Angels With Dirty Faces
4. That Train Don’t Stop Here
5. Kiko And The Lavender Moon
6. Saint Behind The Glass
7. Reva’s House
8. When The Circus Comes
9. Arizona
Skies
10. Short Side Of Nothing
11. Two Janes
12. Wicked Rain
13. Whiskey Trail
14. Just A Man
15. Peace
16. Rio
De Tenampa
17. Whiskey
Trail (studio demo version)
18. Rio De
Tenampa (studio demo version)
“
Holiday House Party With Los Lobos”
Live at
Capitol Studios
Aired on NPR
on December 25, 1992
19. Peace
(Live)
20.
Arizona Skies /
Borinquen Patria Mia (Live)
21. Kiko And
The Lavender Moon (Live)
Kiko
Live Track Listing for Blu-ray/CD and DVD/CD
1. Dream In Blue
2. Wake Up Dolores
3. Angels With Dirty Faces
4. That Train Don’t Stop Here
5. Kiko And The Lavender Moon
6. Saint Behind The Glass
7. Reva’s House
8. When The Circus Comes
9. Arizona
Skies
10. Short Side Of Nothing
11. Two Janes
12. Wicked Rain
13. Whiskey Trail
14. Just A Man
15. Peace
16. Rio
De Tenampa
Bonus Performances:
1. Carabina 30-30
2. Volver Volver
3. La Bamba
Los
Lobos Tour Dates
May 26
Aptos , CA
Santa Cruz Blues Festival
June 1
Chicago , IL Park
West
June 2
Iowa City , IA
Iowa Arts Festival
June 9
Fulton , TX Rockport
Music Festival
June 14
Tucson , AZ Rialot
June 15
Chandler , AZ Wild
Horse Hotel
June 16
Albuquerque , NM
Centennial
Summerfest Main Stage
June 29
Las Vegas , NV Silverton
Casino
June 30
Taos , NM
Taos Solar Music Festival
July 1
San Rafael , CA
Marin County
Fair
July 5
Antwerp , Belgium Olt
Rivierenhof
July 7
Weert , Netherlands Bospop
Festival
July 8
Richmond , Surrey Kew
the Music 2012
July 13
Newport , RI
Newport
Yachting Center
July 14
Greenfield , MA
Green River Festival
July 25
Apple Valley , MN
Minnesota Zoo
August 9
Kitchener , ON Kitchner
Blues Festival
August 11
Beaverton , OR THPRD’s
Summer Celebration
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