La Introducción...Continued

iTunes Review

La Introducción… Continued is an expanded re-release of Carlos y Alejandra’s blockbuster 2009 debut La Introducción, the best selling Dominican album of that year, which garnered the duo three Premio Los Nuestro nominations in 2010 — unthinkable widespread industry recognition for a Bachata group before the early’00s, when groups like Aventura and Monchy y Alejandra began to enjoy substantial crossover success by fusing traditional Bachata with other popular Latin styles such as Vallenato and Ranchera. Carlos y Alejandra’s debut is very much indebted to the Bachata fusion styles popularized by these artists. La Introducción produced two massive singles, “Cuanto Duele,” a more traditional Bachata number that describes the pain that even devoted lovers can inflict on one another, and “Perdoname,” a salsa inflected tale of regret whose swooning chorus owes a little to the outsized grandeur of Marc Anthony’s 2004 hit “Ahora Quien.” This expanded re-release includes three newly recorded compositions, all written in collaboration with veteran arranger and songwriter Gabriel Cruz, plus videos for both “Cuanto Duele” and “Perdoname.”