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TEXAS – Alina Mallén’s hands rub an vihuela while reading music.
“I love vihuela, she’s from Mexico,” Mallén said.
Mallén is a professional mariachi and has played for most of his adult life. The San Antonio can match their time betting Spurs games. As traditionalistic as it is, music is a “Gerudo Valley” arrangement. : Ocarina of Time ” in 1998.
“It’s so much fun to play other chords, other progressions. You don’t see it in classical music,” he says.
Mallén is a founding member of Mariachi Entertainment System and is known as Doomsday Lozano, according to the biography of her website.
“Seeing other people’s nostalgia when they hear us is a lot of fun,” Mallén said.
Mallén sings, plays flute and vihuela, as founding member David Ortiz will tell you, she can do anything.
“We’re completing the finishing touches on a ‘Zelda’ album that we’re released by the end of this year,” Ortiz said.
Ortiz is the music director and writes the arrangements for the band. He plays mariachi at school and is a classically trained musician.
“I began to realize that the mariachis were very discredited. I didn’t really feel that stereotypes about mariachis were true, it wasn’t always five fat guys in a bar that sounded awful,” Ortiz said. of intelligent musicians playing. “
Ortiz felt that video game music lacked appreciation.
“Video game music is also in this same category of not being valid through other classical musicians. I guess if either, others could see that either of us are profitable efforts,” Ortiz said.
MES has existed since 2015. Su YouTube channel shows some of its live performances before the pandemic, adding theaters like PAX South in San Antonio. Ortiz idea that the YouTube channel provides in 2020, but the band has improved, posting 20 videos last year.
Although Ortiz does not boast of each and every painting of the band, he is proud of the paintings they have controlled to make from separate studios.
“The trivialities of getting a successful combination of styles like this is a complicated company,” Ortiz said.
As desirable as it may be for some to watch mariachi game music, some think it defvates too far from tradition.
“People say things like, “Why do you play this with mariachi?That’s what it’s meant to be. ” We’ve replaced the game from the beginning,” Mallén said.
It refers to Charro Avitia and Mariachi Vargas as changing artists.
“There is an occasional user who does not need to listen to mariachi music betting and make a song in English. It’s not to his liking,” Ortiz said. It’s this complaint about how mariachis or musicians have approached other genres. “
Ortiz equates the appeal of merging two musical genres with food.
“You can put ketchup on your tacos and order a fusion. Using those same ingredients carefully to create anything that is representative of other styles and cultures is much more complicated and requires much more reflection,” Ortiz said.