The clock is 23:48 so I'm very nearly running over time this week. Suddenly didn't have the time I thought I would have, so it's a bit of a rushed review/reaction.
I spent some time last year exploring Portugese fado music and also listened to a bit of flamenco, so I'm not entirely green when it comes to this sort of music. But still, my frame of reference isn't very uh.. wide, or however you'd put it.
I'm not familiar with any of the artists involved in this project, but they seem like talented folk. I really enjoy the vibrant guitar playing and especially enjoy when the sonic palate is expanded a bit with (seemingly electric?) bass and some subtle tingling keyboard sounds, as in the song Un cuento para mi niño.
I don't know when the album was originally recorded, but it sounds really dynamic and full bodied, with only some slight microphone distortion in the background. Or whatever it is. I just know that something sounds a bit off now and then, but it's a subtle thing and it doesn't really matter.
I'm more used to fado than flamenco, and a big difference style between the two, aside from the generally more rhythmic and aggresive feel flamenco has, is that vocalists in fado tend to be restrained and careful while they really let it rip in flamenco. It's not going to be everyone's cup of tea, especially not if you're the sort that tends to prefer your music to be instrumental. I love interesting singers, so I can really dig what's going on here. It's not always "nice", but there's so much life and expression in the vocals on this album that it's hard not to feel engaged by them.
Like I said, this is a sort of rushed last minute comment, so I don't really know for sure what I think of all the individual tracks, but they all seem memorable and fairly varied from each other. I think I'd like to hear more stuff like this.
Voted "loved it".
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