La Bien Querida

La Bien Querida: "Fiesta" [Audio]

AUDIO
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1“Noviembre”: We start things off with clapping and the box drum, the synthesizer comes in little by little and an Arabic cry sets the boats sailing and starts the blood pumping. What better way of creating the feeling of intense intimacy than with the strongest contrasts: “El frio y el calor se están tocando / cogidos de la mano paseando” (Hot and cold are touching / walking around holding hands). Setting a sepia tone that we’ll never forget. Two minutes and we are already beginning to melt.

2 “Hoy”: The advance track from the disc is born of Mohamed Soulimane’s Arabic violins, which reaffirm the feeling of a passionate woman, with that interlude that will stay indelibly branded in the mind of any mortal:
“¿Qué será la muerte? / me preguntaste un día / y no te supe contestar. / Si la muerte es mirar y no verte, / que la muerte es mirar y no verte”.(What will death be? / you asked me one day / and I didn’t know how to answer. / If death is looking and not seeing you / that death is looking and not seeing you). Devastating.

3 “Queridos Tamarindos”: She is the only one capable of mixing rumba and the most delicious pop this way, to make one of the pop choruses of the year: “Suplícame, que me está gustando / Te enseñaré como lo hice yo / Insísteme todo lo que sepas / Y dame todo el tiempo la razón” (Beg me, I like it / I’ll show you how I did it / Insist as much as you can / And tell me I’m right all the time).

4 “Sentido Común”: And since we can’t escape our own feelings, with that air of northern Argentinean folklore and scent of rumba: melancholic, resigned, but deeply exciting.

5 “Piensa Como Yo”: That beginning that is almost sampledelic, full of groove, with that saxophone pushing, it gives way to a song that mixes irony, humor, sadness and bitterness with incredible skill: or because you fall in love with the wrong person.

6 “Cuando El Amor Se Olvida”: Arabic base slowly gives way to clapping, that flamenco touch returns for one of the most chilling confessions of the whole disc. A sad vision of love begins, understood as altruism, disinterest, openly and inevitably facing suffering and deception, to end up like this: “ Sé lo que me vas a preguntar ahora... / Y no lo sé” (I know what you’re going to ask me now… / And I don’t know). Tears.

7 “La Muralla China”: One of the most purely pop songs on the album, catchy, with that melody that sets the pace for a simple line that hides a vital philosophy: “Y no voy a dejar que el tiempo se me escape / de todos mis fracasos aprendí / y aunque te extrañe voy a intentarlo una vez más.” (And I’m not going to let time get away from me / I learned from all my mistakes / and even though I miss you I’m going to try it one more time) Isn’t it said that humans are the only animals that trip over the same stone twice? Only?

8 “Monte De Piedad”: A solemn march, an Easter week procession cloaked by Banda de Música Mestra Montserrat, is the chosen clothing for this song, which was included on the first demo, and which is another of the greatest tracks on the album. It describes one of the great idiosyncrasies of relationships, and how difficult it is to rationalize anything related to her: “Empedrado está el infierno de buenas intenciones, / muchas puertas, muchas vueltas, vuelvo a tropezar.” (Hell is paved with good intentions / so many doors, so many turns, I stumble again).

9 “En El Hemisferio Austral”: The era of David in BEEF can be seen here more clearly than ever, with those broken guitars in the background, and that way of singing that Ana has to narrate the explosion of a spark.

10 “Me Quedo Por Aquí”: Another one of the greatest hits on the album, with a devastating chorus, making it absolutely clear that our girl has an overwhelmingly captivating and independent personality: “Digo lo que me viene en gana, / hago lo que me da la gana, / se van cayendo las manzanas de las ramas, / tengo los ases, los reyes y las damas, / y hago lo que me da la gana” (I say whatever I feel like / I do whatever I want, / the apples are falling from the trees / I’ve got the aces, the kings and the queens / and I do whatever I want).

11 “Monumentos En La Luna”: Sadness fills the space, because he has gone and he’s not coming back, and the exact moment you realize it is supremely bitter: “lo que ya pasó se que no volverá, / y probablemente tú tampoco, / quisiera decirte que me da igual, / pero no, pero no que no es verdad” (what has already happened I know won’t come back / and probably neither will you / I wanted to tell you that it doesn’t matter / but no, it’s not true).

12 “Lunes De Pascua”: Life is full of contradictions, and what better than a ranchera with a waltz rhythm to declare this. We are fooling ourselves: “He visto salir el sol, / de sitios imposibles, / así que cuando te vas / ya nunca me pongo triste” (I’ve seen the sun rise / from the most improbable places / which is why when you go / I never get sad), but then we resign ourselves: “Poco o nada me han enseñado los años / Prometo, prometo, prometo, prometo, prometo, prometo, prometo” (The years have taught me little to nothing / I promise, I promise, I promise, I promise, I promise, I promise, I promise).