Por Lo Imposible

Recording information: Colobrí Studio, Salvatierra, Guanajuato; Estudios Jordán, Los Mochis, Sinaloa.For many years, banda took a back seat to mariachi and norteño in terms of popularity. But with the banda boom of the 1990s and 2000s, banda went from being a marginal part of regional Mexican music to being a prominent, highly visible part of regional Mexican music, and that banda boom brought diversity as well as commercial success. These days, banda can be anything from traditionalists playing rancheras and corridos to techno-banda artists playing unlikely arrangements of bachata tunes. Sinaloa native Germán Montero shows us some of that diversity on Por lo Imposible, which offers a variety of material but maintains a banda orientation. Lstening to "No Pasa Nada" ("Nothing Is Happening"), "Obsesionado" ("Obsessed"), "Pobre Picasso" ("Poor Picasso"), and "Tú Mi Mundo, Yo Un Recuerdo" ("You're My World, I'm a Memory"), one hears examples of crossover banda; all of those tracks combine