Estrella Morente compiles her entire work in ‘Antología’

The cantaora’s book-album includes her three CDs and a DVD with a previously unpublished concert

Flamenco-world.com, December 1st, 2009

While her producer is ‘pressuring’ her to record a new album, Estrella Morente stops to recapitulate. The Granada-born cantaora releases ‘Antología’, a book-album in which she 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 Moreover, it has a DVD with the already known ‘Casacueva y escenario’ plus the previously unpublished concert presenting her début album in 2001 at the Teatro Lara in Madrid.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.

Estrella Morente

Estrella Morente releases ‘Antología’, a special edition in a book-album format which contains her entire work since the appearance of her first disc in 2001, with which she revolutionized the flamenco world and the Spanish music scene. With 3 CDs+DVD, ‘Antología’ includes the three albums by the Granada-born cantaora (‘Mi cante y un poema’, ‘Calle del Aire’ and ‘Mujeres’) plus the DVD ‘Casacueva y escenario’, with the addition of the previously unpublished concert presenting her first album held in the year 2001 at the Teatro Lara in Madrid. All of it in a deluxe anthology edition in book format with all of her songs’ lyrics, credits and plenty of photographs.

Estrella Morente was born in 1980 in Las Gabias (Granada), the daughter of maestro Enrique Morente and bailaora Aurora Carbonell. Immersed in this ambience, she sang at the age of 7 accompanied by the guitar of maestro Sabicas and at 16, she made her début in the opening gala of the World Downhill Ski Championship in Sierra Nevada (Granada). After performing on different stages and establishing herself in the show ‘Huellas de la Argentinita’ in 1997, in 2001 she made her début in the record world with the album ‘Mi cante y un poema’, produced by Enrique Morente and which included songs such as ‘A Pastora’, ‘Coquinas’, ‘La noche’, ‘Alcazaba’, ‘Peregrinitos’… Recorded in Granada, Cádiz and Madrid, it was launched all over the world by Peter Gabriel’s label Real World and caused a commotion within the flamenco world, earning a Silver Record.

Estrella Morente

In late 2001, she released ‘Calle del Aire’, a fresh, eclectic, heterodox album with songs such as ‘Caracol’, ‘Los cuatro muleros’, ‘Salve gitana del Sacromonte’ and some Christmas carols like ‘Noche de paz’. She earned a Gold Record with her second album and it meant the international recognition of the cantaora, who broke flamenco’s barriers and dazzled all sorts of audiences. In 2006, she collaborated with Pedro Almodóvar in the film ‘Volver’, singing the famous tango by Carlos Gardel. Appearing that same year after five years without a record was ‘Mujeres’, a collection of songs inspired by female characters dear to Estrella and under the protective direction of Enrique Morente. They’re songs which marked the artist throughout her entire life, with titles like ‘Taranta’, ‘Tangos de Graná’, ‘Zambra’, ‘La noche de mi amor’, ‘Vuelvo al sur’ and a version of Jacques Brel’s ‘Ne me quitte pas’. With ‘Mujeres’, which was also a Gold Record, Estrella performed all over the world, afterwards putting together the show ‘Pastora 1922’, which amazed audiences in its run in London.

Previously unpublished concert

This tribute to La Niña de los Peines was released on DVD in 2007 with the title ‘Casacueva y escenario’ and includes the complete concert which was held at the Patio de los Aljibes at La Alhambra in Granada, the same place where Pastora Pavón took part in the First Cante Jondo Contest. In the recital, Estrella Morente is accompanied by Pepe Habichuela, José Miguel Carmona, Miguel Ochando, Miguel Ángel Cortés, among other musicians, evoking that legendary night in June 1922, promoted by Federico García Lorca and Manuel de Falla. This DVD is extended in this ‘Antología’ with the concert presenting her first album which Estrella Morente offered at the Teatro Lara in Madrid in 2001. Winner of the 2006 Music Award for Best Flamenco Album, Estrella Morente has also won the Ondas Award for Best Flamenco Creation and has been nominated for a Grammy, among other recognition endorsing her career.

Estrella Morente

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