Siguiendo la luna

In El León, the sixth album by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, ska and rock blend with Caribbean rhythms to create a sound unlike anything you've heard before. But there's one song that steals the show from the first chord: Siguiendo la luna. It's not a track that progresses in a straight line; each section breathes differently, as if the rhythm itself were dancing to the beat of a never-ending party. The bass sets the pace with a repeating line, but the rest of the instruments move around it without stepping on each other, as if each musician were telling their own story while the music plays. That interplay between repetition and the unexpected is what makes this song still sound fresh on the radio, even decades later.

The album was recorded in 1992 in Buenos Aires, when the band had already been playing together for nearly a decade, searching for the sound that would define them. Siguiendo la luna was released as the third single, after Carnaval toda la vida and Gitana, but it was the one that stayed on the charts the longest. Production was handled by K.C. Porter, who gave it that warm glow blending brass with keyboards, and Steve Sykes ensured everything sounded balanced in the mix. Though the album has five singles, this song best represented that shift in direction: suddenly, ska didn’t sound like just ska anymore, but something bigger, more Latin, more alive.