Where is the amor for HA-ASH? Mexican cowgirl pop, and sisters too!

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They really deserve their own thread. Hanna and Ashley Perez, teenage sisters, born in Louisiana, raised in Mexico, kicking my ass with maybe my favorite pop record of the year, which looks like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/ha-ash.jpg

and sounds like this:

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QOOPIENIRX9K0TAD5HBMWDQ33

http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3RP5LWLTR7WF11B9M2UPYGEVU0

and I haven't stopped listening to for a week despite an influx of other great music. A little bit country, a little more rock'n'roll. One interview I found (one of the few I found that I could actually read, i.e. in English) said that their mother was a big country fan and that's what they grew up on even after they moved to Mexico. Anyway, I just loves 'em. I like how they trade off lines and verses and get together on the choruses, I like how smart and funny the singing is even though I don't understand a word. Good stuff.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

A few more tracks...

This one's got fiddles and a kind of Nashville boogie beat, but goes to like a quasi-clave reggaeton rhythm on the chorus:

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IFGQD2QCQ42M13OJBVA3O9PYX

And they do nice ballads too:

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2M0HI1V5O04ES0NTTHGX7XGQZN

I really like this record. So much that I went and bought their first one too, from last year, which is good too. I like the new one better, but there's some really good stuff on the first one, like these:

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3ISAIK9RF1ACB0J7WJDHSOXPUN

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2YTSBTOORX3DR1OHZQQY2AMFXK

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

And the new record's got a completely great Patsy Montana cowgirl song on it -- with yodeling!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 10 November 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

The Alejate song is great! This would make for awesome road trip music (although I dislike dust and that weird film you get on your eyes when you have to look at shit for a long time (the road, laptop screen, Street Fighter 2, etc) so I'd probably stay in hotels every two days at least)).

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Thursday, 10 November 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I wanna know more about this guy Aureo Baqueiro who wrote a lot of their songs and produced both albums. He's apparently some Mexico City hitmaker kingpin. I love his sound, he puts organs and harmonicas and electronic tidbits in all the right places.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 10 November 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I love their poppy stylings, but that album is 2004 for me.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 10 November 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

WHOOPS BUSTED, you're right, that's a new one! The cover looked so much like the first album's that I assumed it was that one. I will definitely find a way to hear this.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 10 November 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

The new one's better, I think, but I like both.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 10 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Ha*Ash Smo*Kin****

― bardo bardot, Friday, 11 November 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

i figured this thread had to be started by one of two ilxors, and both of those people are present and accounted for!

― teeth marks on your tongue (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 November 2005 05:34 (twenty years ago)

yes'm.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 11 November 2005 06:34 (twenty years ago)

does chuck eddy like ha-ash?

― teeth marks on your tongue (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 November 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

i think a lot of people have tried to interest him in them; I know I have. FUCK YEAH he would like them, if the opportunity presented itself.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 11 November 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

There's gotta be an English-language crossover album coming. Nashville will love 'em because they can make Nashville seem multicultural.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 11 November 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

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