Cancionera
by Natalia Lafourcade
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 Apr 2025
- Label: Sony Music
- Country: Mexico
- Length: 1:15:54
- Community rating: 3.73/5 from 21 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Cancionera', Natalia Lafourcade offers a blend of original compositions and reinterpretations of traditional Mexican music, captured with an intimate and raw quality by being recorded live to analogue tape in single takes. Produced by Adan Jodorowsky, the album's sound is heavily influenced by the cultural heritage of Veracruz and introspective lyrical poetry, creating a dialogue between the ancient and contemporary. The work features collaborations with artists like Hermanos Guti茅rrez and El David Aguilar, adding layered sonic textures that range from heartfelt ballads to arrangements that evoke the golden age of Mexican cinema.
Genres
Descriptors: Spanish language, female-vocals, traditional, acoustic, melodic, vocal
Tracklist
- Apertura Cancionera (05:19)
- Cancionera (05:36)
- Cocos en la Playa (04:25)
- Como Quisiera Quererte (04:18)
- Amor Clandestino (03:58)
- Mascaritas de Cristal (06:25)
- El Coconito (03:52)
- El Palomo y La Negra (07:00)
- Cari帽ito de Acapulco (06:36)
- La Bruja - Versi贸n Cancionera (06:03)
- Luna Creciente (06:48)
- L谩grimas Cancioneras (05:14)
- Amor Clandestino - Ac煤stica (04:50)
- Cancionera - Ac煤stica (05:30)
Credits
- Natalia Lafourcade - production and musical direction, arrangements, author, lyrics for new verses, piano, vocals, polaroid photos, creative direction cancionera, producer
- El David Aguilar - special guests, backing vocals, vocals
- Israel Fern谩ndez - special guests
- Diego del Morao - special guests
- Hermanos Guti茅rrez - special guests, arrengements
- Adan Jodorowsky - production and musical direction, backing vocals, arrangements, g眉iro y campana, music director, performance arranger, producer, co-producer
- Emiliano Dorantes - backing vocals, partituras, cifrados y arreglos adicionales en "amor clandestino", piano
- Alfredo Pino - backing vocals
- Citlali Aguilera - lyrics for new verses
- Tlali Maribel - marimbol, backing vocals on "cocos en la playa", backing vocals
- Beata Kukawska - violins i, violin
- Leonelys S谩nchez - violins i, orchestra, violin
- Jos茅 Antonio 脕vila - violins i, violin
- Nabani Aguilar V谩zquez - violins i, violin
- Pawel Andrzej Sliwinski - violins ii, violin
- David Jesus Vi帽a - violins ii, violin
- Benjamin Carone Sheptak - violins ii, violin
- Florangel - violins ii, violin
- Anna Arnal Ferrer - violas, viola
- Lilian Sifontes - violas, viola
- Henry Williams L贸pez - violas, viola
- Rolando Fern谩ndez - cellos, cello
- Cristina Arista - cellos, cello
- Karla Sof铆a Lugo Castel谩n - cellos
- Abraham J. S谩enz - flute
- Gabriel Padilla - clarinet
- Alfredo Pino Gendy - trumpet
- Alejandra Paniagua - backing vocals on "cocos en la playa", backing vocals, arpa
- Oscar Pacheco - percusiones
- C茅sar Pacheco - percusiones
- Rodrigo Oliveros - requinto jarocho
- Jorge Gamboa - contrabajo, contrabass
- Alex Lozano - bater铆a, drums
- Gordon Hamilton - backing vocals, director de orquesta, compositor y arreglista, conductor
- Jack Lahana - recording engineer, mixing engineer
- Alan Ortiz - additional recording engineer on "apertura cancionera" and "l谩grimas cancioneras"
- Bernie Grundman - mastering, mastering engineer
- Gonzalo Hergueta - graphic design and album art direction
- Carlos Manuel L贸pez - still photo
- Silvana Trevale - still photo
- La Cancionera - paintings
- Calo Pippilota - creative marketing team
- Carolina Victoria Abreu - creative marketing team
- Giselle L贸pez Coa - marketing campaign edition
- Lucero Saiset - marketing graphic design
- Sandy Ram铆rez - marketing graphic design
- Shari Y谩帽ez - marketing graphic design
- Jonathan Arreola - marketing graphic design
- Daniela Arellano - marketing graphic design
- Claudia Candano - stylist natalia lafourcade
- Airam Nanti - costume coordination
- Roc铆o Alc谩zar - costume coordination
- Dami谩n DAYMOON - main band musicians, management adan jodorowsky and recording coordination
- Jaime Arroyo - project manager
- Erick Villagrana - ingeniero asistente de grabaci贸n, ingeniero asistente de mezcla, assistant recording engineer
- Elier Contreras - ingeniero asistente de grabaci贸n, assistant recording engineer
- Soundwalk Collective - dise帽o sonoro en "apertura cancionera", "la bruja (versi贸n cancionera)", "luna creciente" y "l谩grimas cancioneras"
- Sergio Vainilla - management adan jodorowsky y coordinaci贸n de grabaci贸n
- Alan Saucedo - director
- Michelle Anzo - coordinadora