It is a sensory album that covers the smells, flavors, landscapes, but above all the sounds of Mexico. Titled “A song for Mexico, vol. 2 “is the second part of a project” made in community “by Natalia Lafourcade whose premiere has left the singer with the need to” go back inside. “
“The album takes you to the countryside, to the mountains, to the beach, to any landscape in Mexico. It lets you perceive the smell of the country, of mole, tamale, mezcal, tequila and agave ”, the composer tells Efe in an interview.
“It has the song of the community of joy, pain, life, death, love, heartbreak, protest, the song of women, weeping women, our mystique and culture. It is strong to say it, but I am not lying, “he added.
“A song for Mexico, vol. 2 “is” beyond “the artist who leads it, says Lafourcade, who worked with more than 50 musicians for this second volume and whose first installment earned her her second Grammy Award and added two Latin Grammys to her collection. .
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It is the continuation of a project that began with the intention of keeping the heritage of Mexican music alive by raising funds through a homonymous concert held in 2019, for the Son Jarocho Documentation Center, in the state of Veracruz. .
For the singer-songwriter, the “liberation of all this energy” that has been to launch this Friday the “collective” album recorded from “the difficulties” that the pandemic brought, has also given her a need to return to music.
“I am open to the universe, I have a line of songs that I hope to be able to record soon. They are very intimate and personal, I really need to come back to myself after this project that is so outward, so many orchestra, so many people. I would like to invest a little and go inside and I don’t know what is going to happen, I don’t know how it will be to go back inside ”, he assures.
While that happens, Lafourcade, 37, celebrates the work he achieved with his producer Kiko Campos and countless engineers, artists, musicians and friends who were part of the project.
“(The concert) opened the window for me to a world of possibilities, the relationship with all these musicians and with this traditional music for me has been like reaffirming that I can continue on this path, I feel very comfortable and I feel very honest doing it ”, He comments.
The album has the participation of artists such as Carlos Rivera, Silvana Estrada, Ely Guerra, Los Cojolites, Jorge Drexler, Mare Warning, Mon Laferte, among others.
“Seeing myself artistically involved with so many universes seems wonderful to me. They were all artists that I knew, that I love, that I esteem and that I admire, although there were some with whom I never imagined that I could collaborate with them, such as Rubén Blades and Caetano Veloso ”, he says.
HEADING TO THE LEGEND OF MEXICAN MUSIC
Pepe Aguilar and Aida Cuevas, two artists Natalia calls “living legends of Mexican music,” also participate in the album, a term that she doesn’t know if it also defines her.
“Legends are made with time only, the established artist happens almost without you noticing. In a moment you turn back and say, look at life (…) I do not know if consolidated, or rather clear and sure that this is what I like, what I enjoy and that is why I am here, “he asserts.
What is undeniable is that since her encounter with the music of Agustín Lara in 2012, through the sounds of the huapango of “Hasta la root” in 2015, the tribute she paid to the women of Latin American music in 2017 Up to “Un canto por México” in its two volumes, the singer has established herself as a faithful defender and representative of current Mexican music.
With “A song for Mexico, vol. 2 “the singer encompasses a” first level work “that contains the most traditional sounds of Mexico with its instruments and lyrics and shows a modernity that many other artists have embraced from their trenches.
“It is necessary to value enough (Mexican music) so that the boys and girls of the country have music as a compulsory preparation. We should all know what a vihuela, a guitarrón is, that the son jarocho was not alien to us, that we could all tap, “he concludes.
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