The mestiza music (mixed-blood music) of the Mexican countryside is of a wealth that often amazes the European listener more accustomed to poor commercial success. It moves by its irresistible vitality and joyful force. This music, so deeply Mexican that it could not be confused with any other, however arose from the (forced?) union between three very distant cultures: Amerindian, African and European. The Huasteco “son”, presented in this CD, recorded in the sixties and seventies by musicologist Serge Roterman, is of a singular refinement. Patrick FReMEAUX