Mexico's Cafe Tacuba plays Coachella Music Fest for 3rd Time
 Jake Coyle - Associated Press
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| | The members of Café Tacuba, from left: Joselo Rangel, Rubén Albarrán, Emmanuel del Real and Quique Rangel. (Ricardo Trabulsi) | | |
Indio, Calif. - For Cafe Tacuba, Mexico's premier rock band, borders are meant to be crossed.
In the band's nearly two-decade career, they've consistently mixed genres, hopping from folk to techno to ska, sometimes all in one song. The anthem of Cafe Tacuba, a band in an almost perpetual state of change, could be their "Volver a Commenzar," which means "begin again."
That song is off their most recent album, "Sino," which finds Cafe Tacuba paying ode to `70s classic rock bands like Yes and Rush.
Though hugely popular in Mexico, Cafe Tacuba are mostly critical darlings in the U.S., where they've been awarded a Grammy and been compared to Radiohead and U2. A full crossover to the States, though, has been elusive, no doubt largely because they sing in Spanish.
On Saturday, the band — which was forged in a middle class suburb of Mexico City — played the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, located southeast of Los Angeles, for the third time.
"In the United States, there's a lot of people who expect their music to be sung in English," said bassist Enrique Rangel. "But this is California!"
Playing on the main stage at Coachella, Cafe Tacuba put on an exuberant, hugely varied performance.
"This is the way this world has developed," said Rangel. "There's a chance to know different things and music and experiences from other places."
Keyboardist Emmanuel del Real is quick to point out, the four members of Cafe Tacuba original fell in love with rock 'n' roll as young boys, when they didn't know what the words meant.
"It hits you," said del Real. "Or not." |
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