Review: Mariola Membrives’ Winter Trousseaus Album – A Masterpiece of Musical Artistry

The word trousseau takes me back to an act of affection, to a touch and a smell that we snatch from death, to an immemorial song that the people make their own. The voice of Mariola Membrives It is a marvel of strength and determination, but at the same time among the dreamy melismas we can find traces of fragility, and of an affection that overwhelms the senses. The art of Mariola It is like a trousseau or something material that she gives to the listener in an act of generosity and love for her profession as an artisan of song.

The woman from Córdoba is from that lineage of artists who, allow me to say the cliché, are born with a special gift for expressing emotions. His vision of music is always heterogeneous, opening gaps through which different musical styles filter in that adapt to his voice like a glove.

After dazzling with his previous work, Babylon (2022), where styles are majestically hybridized, this Winter trousseaus (La Reyna Music, 2024) is the first of a set of epés that will be released, I suppose, with each season of the year. In this case they are versions of popular classics accompanied by the double bass of Masa Kamagushi, Jordi Bonell’s guitarthe sax and the flute Gorka Benítez and the harmonica of Rodrigo Pahlen. A huge cast of artists who together work this small miracle.

“Love and Live” (original from Consuelo Velazquez) is a beautiful hymn to life to the rhythm of chamber jazz cadences, and sung passionately by Membrides. One of the most covered songs of the Spanish copla, “Antonio Vargas Heredia” (the first to perform it was the great Argentine Empire For the movie Carmen de la Triana) is deconstructed by the band in a heartfelt ballad with our artist recreating different vocal registers.

Brazilian tradition comes hand in hand with a take on a classic Dorival Caymmi“É Doce Morrer No Mar”, which rides on the back of some beautiful sax arrangements, and which is like a cross between Madredeus and the elegance of Salvador Sobral. “Bésame Mucho” is masterfully carried by the double bass of Kamagushiand where silences are even more important than the voice itself.

For the final stretch he gives us our ears with “Chiquilín de Bachín” by Astor Piazzola with the harmonica of Rodrigo Pahlen recreating a suburban and dreamy atmosphere, and the album ends with “Poema de Amor” by Joan Manel Serrat, another outpouring of tenderness and love in spurts. Masterly.

Listen to Mariola Membrives – AJUARES Invierno (La Reyna Music)

2024-01-30 07:40:46
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