A brand new dwell album from Grammy-winning Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade provides an intimate glimpse into the artist’s course of, capturing a singular second she says bridges to her subsequent inventive chapter.
“Live at Carnegie Hall,” out Thursday, is the recording of a shimmering Lafourcade efficiency in October 2022 on the legendary New York music venue.
It was there two years in the past that she debuted her most up-to-date studio album “De Todas Las Flores” (“Of All The Flowers”), that includes cameos from stars together with David Byrne, Omara Portuondo and Jorge Drexler.
The uncooked, deeply private work scored each a Grammy and a Latin Grammy, one more feather within the cap of the internationally acclaimed 40-year-old.
Singing dwell onstage is a part of giving a tune to its viewers, she informed AFP in a current interview — a second when it ceases to be hers alone.
“I just feel like I was there to give the chance to this song to exist itself,” Lafourcade stated, referring particularly to “Hasta La Raiz,” successful about her Mexican roots and homeland, which was on her breakthrough studio album of the identical title.
In providing it to an viewers, Lafourcade says it turns into a bit of artwork to “remind us of something important — that we all connect.”
For her personally, “Hasta La Raiz” (“To The Root”) serves as a reminder of dwelling, “and that I can fly to anywhere, in any place that I can dream, and I can go far away from that place. But I have that, that root.”
“I think that’s important for many people for different reasons,” Lafourcade stated.
But the data that her music will tackle a lifetime of its personal will not be a part of her writing course of, she stated: “I try not to think, because that will step in the way of the song and the lyrics.”
“Sometimes I just feel like music is just like, ‘get out of the way, let me in!'” she exclaimed. It is finest to simply get out of the way in which, she continued, “because then music surprises you.”
Lafourcade is one in every of Latin America’s most embellished modern stars, with 18 Latin Grammys to her title — probably the most of any feminine artist — and can be an everyday on the Recording Academy’s Grammys.
The daughter of musicians grew up within the state of Veracruz, and obtained her begin greater than twenty years in the past in Mexico’s various music scene, earlier than leaning extra conventional and turning into a steward of Mexican folks songs and requirements.
Her genre-defiant work since then has featured inflections of pop, rock, jazz and Mexican regional folks together with son jarocho (“Veracruz sound”) — and she or he’s additionally turned to the classical world for inspiration.
In current years, Lafourcade has joined forces with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and famed Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, enjoying reveals on the Hollywood Bowl in addition to, after all, Carnegie Hall.
She featured with Dudamel at a present on the New York venue this fall, and stated enjoying with him and the orchestra “feels like flying.”
“There’s not so much rehearsal for the shows with Gustavo,” she stated, saying the emphasis is on seeing “how we react to that energy and people, and the place and the orchestra, and then there’s my band.”
Then, she stated, “we can build something that is unique.”
“It’s a whole collaboration between universes.”
Lafourcade has not given specifics on what’s subsequent for her winding profession, however has indicated her new Carnegie dwell album each “represents a moment that marked my musical path” and “is also a bridge to a new stage.”
She informed AFP her inspirations as of late embrace flamenco — however she’s by no means removed from the sounds of her nation, together with son jarocho and the bolero style of ballads.
“I am happy to see how Latin people, we feel proud of our roots and not shy to show it,” she stated, referring to the explosion lately of Latin music on streaming platforms.
“This is our music,” she stated, and “there’s people from different places in the world paying attention.”
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