| Details | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes
Personnel: Howard Glassford (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); programming); Shakira (vocals); Luis Fernando Ochoa (harmonica, Hammond B-3, keyboards, bass, percussion, background vocals); Alejandro "Pancho" Gomez (harmonica); Eusebio Valderrama (trumpet); Camilo Montilla (piano); Nacho Pilonieta, Jose "Jota" Garcia (bass); Gonzo Vasquez (drums, shaker, tambourine, timbales, programming, background vocals); Samuel Torres (percussion); Andrea Pineros, Jose Gaviria (background vocals).
Engineers include: Luis Fernando Ochoa, Gonzalo Vasquez, Camilo Montilla.
Recorded at Sonido Azulado Studio, Bogota, Columbia; Ocean V.U. Studio, Miami, Florida between February & July 1995.
Born to Lebanese parents in a coastal town in Colombia, Shakira has followed an unlikely path to international stardom. She started making albums at 15, gradually merging her love for American folk-rock with her Latin sensibility, until she crossed over into the mainstream with CIEGO, SORDO, MUDO.
PIES DESCALZOS is the release immediately preceding CIEGO, a purer distillation of the singer before Emilio Estefan got his hands on her. Peforming with standard rock instrumentation and relying on simple riffs, Shakira uses her highly flexible vocal range to infuse her melancholic love songs with an unusual power. If on CIEGO SORDO MUDO she sounded like Alanis Morissette, here she's more like Tracy Chapman. Songs like "Pienso en Ti" and "Te Necesito" have a haunting, elegiac quality. "Un Poco de Amor" is a rollicking celebration of reggae's reach beyond Jamaica, and the title track brings you into the mental state of idealistic Latin youth. "You belong to an ancient race of barefoot people / And now you just want to be happy," she sings, and the kids know they're all right.
Editorial Reviews
...best described as [Columbia's] take on Alanis Morrisette. The hit single from the album PIES DESCALZOS...is simplistic enough to lodge into your brain like a primitive virus, yet inventive in a way that satisfies even a cynic....the rest of the songs...are equally good...
The Beat
...best described as [Columbia's] take on Alanis Morrisette. The hit single from the album PIES DESCALZOS...is simplistic enough to lodge into your brain like a primitive virus, yet inventive in a way that satisfies even a cynic....the rest of the songs...are equally good...
The Beat
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