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La Tana comments
on ‘Tú, ven a mí’, track by track
La Tana. Madrid, April 2005
La Tana (Photo: Daniel Muñoz)
 Tú,
ven a mí (rumba)
“It's really a song that grabs you, that you have to
dance to. Paco de Lucía says that when this refrain
comes, it's as if it cheers you up... It moves you”.
Por olvidar (bulería)
“This bulería is furious. Like my grandmother
says, there's ‘reaños’ (lineage) there.
She tells me the first song's no good, she doesn't like it,
but she likes the rest. And I tell her it's to dance to, that
it's very nice, I ask her if she's listened to the lyrics.
And she says she has... but she likes the other stuff more”.
Asomada
a mi balcón (tangos)
“It's a really happy song, it also has a very catchy
refrain. I liked the part about the jeans and the white slippers.
Lyrics have to be updated, to sing about everyday life. If
you don't study them first, you can't feel them. You have
to listen to them, analyze the lyrics and the music”.
Tus
consejos (seguiriyas)
“It's an idea of Paco's that everyone's liked so far,
for not being a typical seguiriya as usual. I think young
people need things that catch on quickly, that move. And,
at the same time, to put in somewhat more knowledge. There's
a mixture of seguiriya, bulerías, cabales... and it
finishes with fiesta. He said he was going to do that mix.
The changes in rhythm are what drew his attention. It's an
idea you're not used to hearing, but he's taught me to understand
it and the truth is that now I love it”.
La causa de todos mis males (rumba)
“I think it's a nice song that sings about love, about
life. It sounds different; there's an attempt for it not to
be the same old thing”.
La Tana (Photo: Daniel Muñoz)
Enamórame
(bulería)
“I think it's a song that has feeling, which is sweet,
but at the same time has its fury, its courage. If you're
not brave in this life, you don't get anywhere either”.
Cuando paso por tu puerta (soleá)
“Paco had a very old tape by La Niña de los Peines
tucked away that he says very few people have. And it had
really good things; quick, rhythmic stuff, really good. He
gave it to me for me to study it and to give it my own thing.
He told me to remember the oldies. How she used to sing, my
God! She was so fast... She had a machine gun in her throat”.
La bombonera (tangos)
“There's a mix there, too... because the lyrics are
by different authors, as if it were a potpourri of refrains.
By Paco, Serrano Salazar, my father... The ones by my father
have their little message about his life and things that have
happened to him and they hit me close to home”.
Pasan los días (bulerías)
“They're lyrics by Andrés Carmona, Boy, Negro
de los Cherokee and Panki. As we went along listening to it,
we began to feel it that way. There are some lyrics that talk
about my feelings for my mother and they're special to me”.
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