Ana D

ANA D has a satellite in space, where you can only listen to love songs sung by her: about falling in love, illusion, seduction, disillusionment, pain, loss, sacrifice... this is the soundtrack in ANA’s satellite: love as seen from all the possible perspectives in a cosmic record, austere and luxuriant all at once. ANA D, the great diva of space standard music, has modelled twelve songs and two miniatures for the joy of those of us who know t…

ANA D has a satellite in space, where you can only listen to love songs sung by her: about falling in love, illusion, seduction, disillusionment, pain, loss, sacrifice... this is the soundtrack in ANA’s satellite: love as seen from all the possible perspectives in a cosmic record, austere and luxuriant all at once. ANA D, the great diva of space standard music, has modelled twelve songs and two miniatures for the joy of those of us who know there’s something else beyond the clouds.

“Satélite 99” opens up with one of the best songs to come out from Spain in many years: “Los Amantes”, with a wonderful lyric and a bewitching music which makes one’s hair stand on end, in a collaboration which is continued in the whole album, with Ibon Errazkin from LE MANS and Javier Corcobado wrapping and completing ANA D’s talent.

The record is composed by her own exquisite songs plus a bouquet of covers which become immediately of her own as well, showing her enviable good taste and the radiance of her person: latin classics like LOS CHUNGUITOS, Betty Missiego (Eurovision winner!), Italian cult movie soundtrack “Mondo Cane” or Argentinian melodic singer Leonardo Fabio are remembered and reinvented in a thrilling, different way, with a very untuitive use of technology, cleverly combined with acoustic instruments, and a simplicity which drives the listener’s attention to that nocturnal, warm voice, and above all in the trembling performance, sometimes frail and always moving.

ANA D can fill with glamour and elegance a beatbox “pasodoble” like the ones the gypsies play in the corners of every Spanish city (with a different aim, playing it cool as in “Carnaval”), and she can use her voice as another vaporous instrument, as in “Selenio 2034” or in the future listening of “Selenio 2035”. “Naufragio” is a new tango-like version of the song she first released as an advance of this album: a galactic, futuristic tribute to Kurt Weill. The innocence of “Va El Amor” faces up to “Galaxia”, a very dreamy, almost spectral track, with one of the best lyrics of the album: “and between the distance of our kiss a galaxy’s been born”.

This album was released in the United States by Grimsey Records in 1999, with the extra tracks “Recordando “ and “Velero lleno de estrellas y bahías”. ANA D toured the States to promote it, accompanied by Ibon Errazkin on guitar. This tour included an acoustic session in LA’s KCRW radio show “Morning becomes eclectic”. That session would be released as a mini-album CD by Grimsey in 2000; ANA D would tour the States again to promote it. In Argentina Indice Virgen releases a Cd compiling songs from the radio session and “Satelite 99”.