Natalia Lafourcade he says that in his new album 'Up to the root'For the first time he allowed himself to "open his heart" to show the world the "hymn" of his life. "It is an album directly inspired by love and heartbreak, in its process, in how you rebuild and find yourself again," explained the Mexican in an interview held in Madrid, a few days after her performance at the DCODE festival. a few before this material was reissued on vinyl, which in his country was a gold record.
'Until the Root' (October / Sony Music) was composed slowly over three years in which he focused on it with great intensity and then abandoned it for a while, all in the middle of traveling to present the album «Divine Woman"(2013), a tribute to Agustín Lara, who became his" number one "influence.
«Very groundbreaking things happened when making that album. Curiously, I found my voice making an album with other people's songs; the challenge was, from that point on, to make a new and personal album with my songs. In 'Hasta la roots' I allowed myself to talk about my emotions and open my heart », says Natalia. It was clear from the beginning that the most important thing were the lyrics and the interpretation, so he wanted to show himself more "transparent and everyday", also with the music, and he did not hesitate to discard an entire arrangement if it ate the song, "even if it were beautiful, epic or surprising.
«I wanted to make a song about the origin, about the things that build you and allow you to be who you are. When we finished it, I saw that it was the reflection of who I am now, the one that sums up what I have been living and what I am ready to live. It is the hymn of my life, “he highlights.
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