MAYTE MARTÍN guitar and vocals
ALEJANDRO HURTADO guitar
GUILLERMO PRATS double bass
BIEL GRAELLS violin
CHICO FARGAS percussion
MAYTE MARTÍN composition and artistic direction
MAYTE MARTÍN and NELSA BARÓ arrangements
Twelve stirring songs built around the verses of Málagan poet Manuel Alcántara. Twelve scenes of children, war, Miguel Hernández, Altolaguirre, Picasso, the sea, Málaga… The respect for the author’s poetry is exquisite, the enhancement of its message, the instrumentation, the variety of rhythms.
After listening to the album and enjoying the meticulous way in which it has been constructed, you realise you do not need any other flamenco than the one that naturally abides in Mayte’s throat. The one that emits that elegantly intended flamenco sound to guide both the voice and the poem southwards.
Nothing compares to the sincerity of Mayte Martín’s voice, to its richness of range, to the warm melancholy she uses to free the verses of the poet.