After recently returning to British soil from a year in South America, soaking up the vibes, British/Colombian singer-songwriter Vanessa Forero is releasing her new single on November 2nd (Day of The Dead) – a haunting and charming waltz sung in Spanish about the festival’s skeleton icon: La Catrina.
Forero has been performing the song live in her set around bars and venues in Colombia and finally bringing it home to record with her ‘feather girls’ and musician-pack in Brighton.
Being a full-time composer/producer and solitary creator, Forero has always written and recorded alone, playing and recording all instruments and parts herself, but this time she stepped out of her dark studio and into her neighbours front room (a house of musical talent!) where together they recorded ‘La Catrina’ in one-take. “In this over-filtered, auto-tuned world, to do something so raw and imperfect as one-take of four amigos in a living room excited me…and scared me! But it’s captured a charm and energy that no studio plug-in can create. Only humans. I’m hooked!”
The video was animated by young creative Tash Tully www.tashtullyillustration.com who has spent the last year hand-making skeleton puppets and vintage theatre scenes to create this divine piece of moving art.
To live in the hearts of those we loved is not to die is the message carried in the Dia De Los Muertos festival, and Forero has certainly kept a traditional musical style alive with ‘La Catrina’ through her usual charm and quirkiness.
Her debut EP From The Uproar garnered much attention from media and fans alike (over 1 million streams on Spotify, radio plays on BBC Radio, RCM…) Her second EP ‘Fuego’ is highly anticipated and will be released early next year. Described as a wild-cat, tribal, fusion expression of her two cultural sides, the release will come with more videos by animator Tash Tully as well as a shoot in the Colombian Tatacoa desert by Director Felipe Rodriguez. She returns to her other land in January to work with acclaimed tropical producer, Richard Blair (Sidestepper).
Till then, enjoy Dia De Los Muertos with Forero’s love-filled artistic offering.
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