Word: gonzã
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Several centuries later, José Gonz??lez, a young musician of Argentinean descent raised among the fjörds of Sweden, embarks on a similar aesthetic odyssey with his debut album “Veneer...
...where Goethe’s trip took him to the glittering nexus of a unitary “classical” culture, Gonz??lez leads his listener through a more cosmopolitan pantheon of sincere acoustic folk, taking in everything from spicy Spanish flourishes to British pastoral balladeering on a breakneck journey through his musical heritage...
...songs such as these, Gonz??lez reaches the sort of confessional intimacy with which fellow Scandinavian artists like Kings of Convenience’s Erlend Øye only flirt...
...this album formulaic? By all means. Comparisons to other, more renowned artists abound on the first listen. In Gonz??lez’s Rome, beautifully-proportioned busts of Simon and Garfunkel adorn museums and villas. Mark Kozelek (of the Red House Painters) paints riffs on a Sistine ceiling for bossa nova Pope João Gilberto...
...philatelic stereotyping, which follows President Vicente Fox's gaffe in May that Mexicans do jobs in the U.S. that "not even blacks want." The Rev. Jesse Jackson demanded a recall of the "Sambo-type" images. But a rep at the Mexican embassy insisted the stamps are misunderstood: "Speedy Gonz??lez has never been interpreted in a racial manner" in Mexico...