Vale Callampa
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Vale Callampa is an EP
from the Mexican band Café Tacvba
. It was released in 2002 and is Café Tacvba's second cover album. Their first, Avalancha de Éxitos
, consisted of eight songs from various artists. Vale Callampa, however, is all a tribute to one of Café Tacvba's favorite band's, Los Tres
. This album contains Déjate Caer, a major hit for Café Tacvba.
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
from the Mexican band Café Tacvba
Café Tacvba
Café Tacuba is a band from Naucalpan, Mexico. The group is widely credited with being a pioneering group of the Rock en Español movement, which gained popularity in the early 1990s...
. It was released in 2002 and is Café Tacvba's second cover album. Their first, Avalancha de Éxitos
Avalancha de Éxitos
Avalancha de Éxitos was Café Tacuba's third album. In 1996, two years after their acclaimed Re, the band had amassed enough new music to fill four CDs, but couldn't winnow it down to a single album...
, consisted of eight songs from various artists. Vale Callampa, however, is all a tribute to one of Café Tacvba's favorite band's, Los Tres
Los Tres
Los Tres is a Chilean rock band composed of four members: a rock/folk singer and three jazzmen. It was one of the noted bands in the Chilean nineties, together with La Ley and Lucybell....
. This album contains Déjate Caer, a major hit for Café Tacvba.
Track listing
- Déjate Caer (Let Yourself Fall) – 5:05
- Olor a Gas (Smell of Gas) – 4:47
- Amor Violento (Violent Love) – 4:17
- Tírate (Throw Yourself) – 3:09
Band members
- Rita Cantalagua a.k.a. Gallo Gasss (Rubén Albarrán): Vocals
- Emmanuel Del Real: KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, programming, jaranaJaranaThe jarana jarocha is a guitar-shaped fretted stringed instrument, from the southern region of the state of Veracruz, Mexico. Typically strung with 8 strings in 5 courses, usually arranged in two single outer strings with three courses between. The strings are usually nylon, although they were gut...
, percussions, and background vocals - Joselo Rangel: GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
and background vocals - Quique Rangel: BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
and background vocals