After a great adventure of 4 albums covering the Latinamerican folklore, Natalia Lafourcade returns to personal ground to create “De Todas Las Flores”.
“I really entertained myself a lot visiting a bunch of beautiful genres and composers”, tells Natalia. “But then I felt an internal call. Amidst the pandemic, I realized that I was hiding myself, which made me reflect and understand that I had to break the ice and go back to the recording studio”.
That call soon turned into the song the album is named after, which sparked the creation of the rest of the album. With an internal journey of 3 years of writing from her home at Veracruz, Natalia lovingly created the 12 track album.
Life and death, love and lovelessness, the main axes that govern the world are leading roles in this album made by Natalia from the celebration of nature, acceptance, inclusion, femininity, the ancestral, the mysticism and healing.
“I think this is why “Mi manera de querer” had to be the release track”, says the multi-instrumentalist. “It is a song that talks about love without gender. Love knowing that the person you are looking at is a light being just like yourself. It was the last song of the album and I feel it keeps the spirit of joy perceived at the end of the journey, where a really strong connection exists with the acceptance of who one is and that which one can deliver.”
As we learnt in podcast De Todas las Flores (exclusive of Spotify), the album was produced by the acclaimed French Mexican artist Adan Jodorowsky, son of the iconic cinematographic director who worked with John Lennon and George Harrison, Alejandro Jodorowsky. As a musical producer, Adan has been in charge of the past releases of artists such as Bandalos Chinos, Mon Laferte, León Larregui, among others; moreover, as a singer, he gave birth to collabs with Natalia such as “Morir y renacer” from Mujer Divina – Homenaje a Agustín Lara (2013).
Besides Adnan, Natalia gathered a completely new band with musicians of a wide variety of cultures and perspectives: the guitar icon Marc Ribot, the piano prodigy of only 20 years old Emiliano Dorantes, the bass player Sebastian Steinberg (Fiona Apple, Soul Coughing) and the French drum player Cyril Atef. A team of prodigies that, without any previous rehearsals nor metronome, were able to achieve an album with a live and raw energy.
‘De Todas Las Flores’ was recorded in two parts directly onto tape. The first part was made in Texas in the Sonic Ranch studio and the second part in Veracruz in El Acuyo studio. For the mix Natalia went to Paris for a month, at the beginning of the year. “The place that sheltered me during my trip was Montmartre, my favorite parisian neighborhood. It was the perfect closure for the intensity of writing so personal songs Being able to have a croissant for breakfast in the park and watch the rain fall, visit the garden of Monet in Giverny, her paintings provided me with inspiration during the making of the album. All the experience felt as if I was being given a hug, closing the circle in a beautiful and personal way.”
De Todas las Flores, is the dazzling and sophisticated outcome of a work made from care, love and conscience. “I wrote it to make me feel and to make others feel. To move me and to move others. To inspire me and to inspire others. To connect with myself and then connect with other people. To explore new artistic universes that I had never explored before. What is not shared, fades. It is the life cycle”, she concluded.
