After a busy start to the year with the inauguration in January of his exhibition Te Amo, Mon Laferte Visual, at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center in Santiago de Chile and two exciting presentations with the Regional Women’s Band Mujeres del Viento Florido at the Festival of Huaso de Olmué and Lincoln Center in February, the artist began with the composition of the 1940 successor Carmen (Universal, 2021).
A few days ago, ‘I swear I’ll be back’ became an unexpected single from this new album, due to its leak. It is a classic “reduced” cumbia, as the artist describes it. Slow, deep and even sad, like those that sound when the party has been going on for hours, but you still want to sing along and feel a lilting rhythm in your body.
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“This story is my story,” Mon says on the subject. An unknown voice narrates the events in the life of a young woman who leaves her place of origin to pursue a dream and the broken promise to her mother to take her with her when the situation improves. “My mother is actually my grandmother. I promised her that she would bring it with me when it was good for me. She did all kinds of juggling to be here in Mexico for years. Just a year after my grandmother died, things started to go well for me, so I could never keep that promise, ”she says.
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It was in March, he says, that he locked himself up at home with his two friends and creative partners, the producer Manu Jalil and the engineer Daniel Martínez, to compose new music.
“I was a little scared at first. She was sure of what she wanted, but she didn’t know if the ideas that were in my head were going to work. But I think that they did work, that what lived in my mind was embodied in this new album ”, she comments.
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A new album that the artist herself defines as one that is much more reflective than her previous works, in which she dared to immerse herself in different sounds and in which she used new tools, even returning to that more alternative essence of her early years, when she edited their discs independently. “I loved this new creative work. I wanted to try different things than the previous albums. I am very excited, I feel that it is my best album so far”.
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“I swear I’ll be back” is accompanied by a visualizer directed by the Chilean filmmaker Camila Grandi. “In the midst of this lowered cumbia we wanted to place Mon at her own funeral. A death without borders, or nationalities. Mexico and Chile are present without limits or distinctions. Mon is honored with a cholo dance, while they celebrate her with flowers. We are very inspired by the work of the Chilean photographer, Valentina Andrade @veradefilm”, explains the director.
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“Tenochtitlan” will be the first official single from this new album and will be released on August 24 along with a video clip also directed by Camila Grandi.
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2023-08-22 22:43:34
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