 La
Negra Graciana
- Sones Jarochos con el Trío Silva
 Just
before her 60th birthday, Graciana Silva was dragging her harp
from table to table in a cantina when one of the men drinking
beer surprised her first with his kowledge of her music and then
by inviting her to record. Her first CD was a quiet sensation.
Graciana was invited to tour Europe for the first time in 1996
and has since returned several times to play in the Royal Festival
Hall and Barbican Centre in London, in the Theatre de la Ville
in Paris (where her second CD was recorded) and at Toronto's Harbourfront
Centre. She still returns to the cantinas between tours to keep
in touch with her public and compose verses on the spot as she
has done all her life.
Graciana Silva, La Negra Graciana, is a unique artist in Mexican
popular music: a harpist and singer from Veracruz who plays the
classic repertoire of sones jarochos in a style that is difficult
to hear in Mexico today. Her direct, impassioned vocals and the
complex counter-rhythms that she plays so effortlessly on the
harp suggest the West African influence in this music. Graciana,
who's been playing professionally since she was 10 years old,
is accompanied by her brother on jarana guitar and by Elena Huerta
on the second harp and chorus although on several tracks she plays,
as she prefers, alone. 
Track Listing:
1.
La guacamaya 
2.
El pájaro cú
3.
El torito
4.
El siquisirí
5.
La bamba
6.
El pájaro carpintero
7.
La tienda
8.
La iguana
9.
La tuza
10.
El butaquito
11.
El jarabe loco
12.
La vieja
13.
El canelo
14.
El ahualulco
15.
La María Chuchena
16.
El balajú
17.
El cascabel
18.
La morena
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"This
music, like the best of the blues and Celtic musics, speaks directly
to the soul." Toronto Star
CO
109 ©,
(p)
Discos Corason, 1994. Produced by Eduardo Llerenas
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