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Superaquello: Puerto Rican musical vanguards

Fernando Castro | Puerto Rico | 06/03/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Superaquello is most definitely the most refreshing and original Puerto Rican music group in the present (and probably the only Puerto Rican music group who is either refreshing or original). In the overwhelming shadow of the simplistic "reggaeton" (P.R. hip hop), Superaquello has been able to create a faithful and devoted underground following who prefer real and profound home grown talent and the pleasant sounds of real music and original lyrics, to the other horrible musical choices Puerto Rican music has to offer such as "reggaeton" , crappy Spanish pop, crappy reggae groups, worn out rock groups, and mediocre merengue and salsa groups. Mupsiquita is quite a simply a beautiful cd filled with incredibly catchy melodies and good instrumental arrangements. The synthesizers are superb, as are the guitars, but the real outstanding qualities Superaquello have are their unorthodox musical delivery and the beautiful sounds of Patricia Dávila's voice (not to mention Eduardo Alegría's voice also, which is good but not necessarily beautiful for my taste). Superaquello's sound is a refreshing mix of pop/electronic/rock/modern rock/theatrical/surrealist music all rolled into a fine burrito of pleasure. The best tracks (they are all good, I am refreshing to the most outstanding) in this cd are tracks 1, 4, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 and the last one. The only bad thing I have to say is that they are broken off because of an apparent necessity of one of the members to leave the island or something like that, I'm really not sure. I think they broke off because the majority of the people don't know they exist and hence they are not achieving what they rightfully should and are overwhelmed by frustration. I just have to say I hope they get back together again and make once again th great music they do."