Antología de Estrella Morente (3 CD + DVD) 2009

‘Antología’ is a book-album in which Estrella Morente compiles her entire record and video work. It includes the three discs which the artist has created so far: ‘Mi cante y un poema’, ‘Calle del Aire’ and ‘Mujeres’. Moreover, it has a DVD with the already known ‘Casacueva y escenario’ plus the previously unpublished concert presenting her début album in 2001 at the Teatro Lara in Madrid. All of it is complemented with a deluxe booklet over forty pages long which, illustrated with full-color photos, offers a biographical text and compiles the lyrics and credits of all her songs.

Mujeres 2006

In ‘Mujeres’, the third album by Estrella Morente, the Granada-born cantaora pays tribute to great female voices, both from flamenco and other musical genres in these thirteen new songs produced by Enrique Morente. The album takes a look at historic cantaoras like La Niña de los Peines, La Perla de Cádiz and La Repompa, as well as singers of the likes of Imperio Argentina, Nina Simone and Chavela Vargas, among others. Moreover, the album includes the version of ‘Volver’ the cantaora recorded for director Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film. The special edition with free DVD including a videoclip of the song 'Zambra' by film's director Fernando Trueba, plus three songs of the live concert dedicated to the memory of the singer La Niña de los Peines at Granada's Alhambra.

Mi cante y un poema 2001

‘Mi cante y un poema’ was Estrella Morente’s first solo album. And nearly a decade after its release, it could be considered a classic within the neoclassical current of today’s flamenco cante. Inspired by old-time maestras like La Niña de los Peines, the cantaora focuses on traditional styles, accompanied by the exquisite guitars of Manolo Sanlúcar, Juan Habichuela, Pepe Habichuela and Alfredo Lagos. Only in the poem ‘Moguer’ by Juan Ramón Jiménez does she make a reference towards new roads. The producer, of course, was her father, maestro and mentor: Enrique Morente.

Collaborations

Dirty bailarina 2010
Estrella Morente’s latest collaboration to date was daring and surprising. On the album by Sevillian rapper La Mala Rodríguez ‘Dirty bailarina’, she sings ‘Patito feo’, a song, cante, message and hip hop.

Paseo de Gracia 2009
One of the guest vocalists on the album ‘Paseo de Gracia’ by guitarist Vicente Amigo. To be exact, she is in charge of closing it with the tangos entitled ‘La Estrella’.

Morente Flamenco 2009
Enrique Morente’s first live cante album included Estrella’s voice in the bonus track, the creation ‘Nana de Oriente’.

Con otro aire 2007
Side by side with La Mari, Estrella Morente took part on Chambao’s album ‘Con otro aire’, singing the song 'Lo bueno y lo malo' by Ray Heredia.

Memoria 2007
On the first solo album by Granada-born guitarist Miguel Ochando, Estrella Morente provided the vocals for ‘La reina del blús’.

Volver BSO 2006
Estrella relates that when, inspired by Chano Lobato, she went to record the bolero por bulerías ‘Volver’ as the main song of the soundtrack for the film of the same title by Pedro Almodóvar, actress Penélope Cruz sat down beside her in the studio booth to learn the gestures of her performance. They both did it perfectly.

Paz 2006
On the album which Niño Josele dedicated to jazz pianist Bill Evans, Estrella took part by singing the sweet song ‘Minha’.

Morente sueña La Alhambra 2005
Estrella Morente’s trilling is interwoven by the disc ‘Morente sueña La Alhambra’, so much so that she even imitates the warbling of the birds at the Nazarite fortress with her voice. Moreover, she can be seen on the DVD.

Iberia 2005
The film which Carlos Saura made inspired by Isaac Albéniz’s suite ‘Iberia’ included Estrella Morente, who sings a choreographic saeta dressed in mourning with a shawl.

Romero 2004
On the début album by Huelva-born guitarist Juan Carlos Romero, Estrella sings the fourth of the sevillanas ‘Un puñao de sal’.

Territorio Flamenco 2003
On this collective record, each cantaor performs a well-known song from another genre. While Diego Carrasco sang ‘Hello, Dolly’ and Rancapino ‘Bésame mucho’, the Granada-born cantaora opted for the tango ‘Nostalgias’.

Fragua Futura 2003
In this catalogue with which the label Nuevos Medios wanted to anticipate the future, the up-and-coming artists José Carbonell Montoyita, Estrella Morente and Joaquín Cortés are backed with the bulería ‘Paseíllo de mi ilusión’.

El último cantaor 1999
When she was still three years away from bringing out her own album, she conversed with a colleague from the same generation. On Potito’s album ‘El último cantaor’, she sings the tangos ‘De puntillas’.

Sobreviviré BSO 1999
Estrella Morente’s performance on the soundtrack of the film ‘Sobreviviré’ was another of the steps taken by the artist until she triumphed with a name of her own. “Sola, como una estrella que cae del cielo…”.

Omega 1996
Although her voice had already been heard on some of Enrique Morente’s previous discs, Estrella’s participation on the revolutionary ‘Omega’ was crucial. The version of Leonard Cohen’s ‘First we take Manhattan’ together with her father is epic.