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Café Tacuba (often stylised as Café Tacvba) is a band from Naucalpan, Mexico. The group gained popularity in the early 1990s. They were founded in 1989, and since then have had the same musical lineup of Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Emmanuel "Meme" del Real Díaz (keyboards, piano, programming, rhythm guitar, melodica, vocals), José Alfredo "Joselo" Rangel Arroyo (lead guitar, vocals), and Enrique 'Quique' Rangel Arroyo: (bass guitar, electric upright bass, vocals). Mexican folk music player Alejandro Flores is considered the 5th tacuba, as he has played the violin in almost every Café Tacuba concert since 1994. Since the Cuatro Caminos World Tour, Luis "El Children" Ledezma has played the drums in every concert but is not considered an official member of the band.
Previously known as "Alicia Ya No Vive Aquí" (a tribute to Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), the band took its final name from a coffee shop (el Café de Tacuba) located in downtown Mexico City. The cafe, which opened in 1912 and had its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, was representative of the Pachuco scene at the time, something the band would later acknowledge as an influence. The Café de Tacuba is still in operation as a coffee shop and restaurant on Tacuba Street, in Mexico City's Historic Center. The band changed its name to Café Tacvba (changing the u for a v) in order to avoid legal issues with the coffee shop.
Tacuba is a municipality in the Ahuachapán department of El Salvador.
It is located in Villa of Tacuba. It is head of the municipality of the same name in the department of Ahuachapán, at about 14 Kilometers of the city of Ahuachapán and at 700 meters over the sea level. It was built in the 16th century or at the beginning of the 17th century by the officer Juan Clemente and his son Juan.
Its facade is of wooden type and it has a Baroque style with a front of three bodies. The interior is decorated with four Solomon columns and two arched niches in the half body. The niches house images of entablature; it also possesses an opening for the illumination of the interior. The superior body is decorated with Solomon columns, where it can be appreciated, since it was partially destroyed by the earthquake of 1773. It happened in Guatemala, and created destruction in the city of Antigua, Guatemala.
Of the church itself, only the facade of a lateral wall and a section of the outer wall remain. There are also two embedded chapels. This description is previous to the damage produced by the earthquake of June 19, 1982. A beautiful baptism puddle of sculpted stone is still conserved. In the data of “Statistical Population and their resources” of 1858, there is a comment: “there is a beautiful ruined temple of calicanto and regular convent of pope”. There is a document of 1769, in which the ordinary mayor, Don Mateo Ramirez, describes the construction of the church. He mentions that Tacuba was founded by the pipiles and was called Tacupán, a Nahuatl word meaning “patio" or "ball game field”.
Como es que te vas salvador de la compania,
si todavia hay mucho verdor.
Si el progreso es nuestro oficio
y aun queda por ahi mucho indio
que no sabe lo que es vivir
en una ciudad, como la gente.
Que no ves que eres un puente
entre el salvajisimo y el modernismo,
Salvador el ingeniero, salvador de la humanidad.
Esta muy bien lo que tu piensas pero,
por que no te acuerdas que la nuestra
es una civilizacion muy avanzada,
como dice la gente.
Que no ves que nuestra mente
no debe tomar en cuenta a ecologistas indigenistas,
retrogradistas ni humanistas.
Ay mis Ingenieros Civiles y Asociados,
no crean que no me duele irme de su lado,
pero es que yo pienso que llegado el tiempo
de darle lugar a los espacios sin cemento.
Por eso yo ya me voy, no quiero tener nada que ver
con esa fea relacion de accion,
construccion-destruccion.
Ay mis companeros Petroleros Mexicanos
no crean que no extraño
el olor a óleo puro
pero es que yo pienso
que nosotros los humanos,
no necesitamos mas hidrocarburos.
(Y los sobrevivientes de San Juan Ixhuatepec
cantaban tu turu turu turu uh)