Niña Pastori wants to
mark a turning point
in her career with ‘No hay quinto malo’
The cantaora's
new album is to come out on November 2nd, 2004
Flamenco-world.com, October 2004
The sound of the sea ushers in
‘No hay quinto malo’, the new album by Niña
Pastori. The Cádiz-born cantaora has created
together with Chaboli - her husband, producer and percussionist
- a record on which, they assure, “we've turned everything
around and it's going to be very surprising”. The
record company adds that it is “her most personal,
most private and riskiest album; her most essential, purest
and most intimate work”. In fact, the implication
of María even ends up taking part in the composition
of the entire repertoire, from which the song ‘Puede
ser’ has been pulled out as a single.
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“There are those who say you're a
fool if you don't dance their way, that you're all dried
up, that you have no heart”. Beginning with this sentence
is ‘No
hay quinto malo’, the new song collection by Niña
Pastori. The album will be released on November 2nd, 2004
in two formats: a limited edition in a glass case without
a libretto at a very special price, to fight against piracy;
and a digipack, with a complete libretto with texts and
photos.
The album's letter of presentation is the
song ‘Puede ser’, one of the twelve making up
the album. The titles are ‘Principio’, ‘Espinas’,
‘Imposible’, ‘El loco del barrio’,
‘En tres minutos’, ‘Puede ser’,
‘La cuna’, ‘Santo Romero’, ‘La
tata’, ‘En los rincones de mi casa’, ‘Como
me duele’ and ‘Final’. As the record company
explains, Niña Pastori and Chaboli
“have opted not to go the easy way and have risked
seeking a new road without losing flamenco's depth”.
And to do so, they have surrounded themselves
with a group of musicians who collaborate in providing sound
to a record on which the string arrangements stand out.
The special nature of this album goes beyond its contents.
The album's very cover “catches your eye due to its
schematic and oriental simplicity since, like the entire
album, it has sought out essence before complexity and sophistication”.
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