REINAS DEL MATUTE

 

Las Migas are presenting their latest disc, Reinas del Matute, at Suma Flamenca 2011. It is, according to the critics, a very delicate material. Among the songs performed by these young artists with a flamenco spirit and a popular soul, are compositons by great names such as Lorca, Alberti or Carlos Cano. Los cuatro muleros, Perdóname luna, María la Portuguesa... texts and lyrics stolen from their authors and presented again like old friends in new dresses. Las Migas dare to try everything. If their first disc turned out so well is was due in part to the production by Raúl Fernández and the accompaniment of guitars, mandolins, violins and ukeleles. Ingredients with which the songs of Las Migas achieve a high level of quality and conviction, of harmony and emotion.

Reinas del Matute is a mixture of musical genres, gestures and acknowledgements which intermingle, embrace and kiss. On this disc, some of the most emblematic flamenco styles are treated with exquisite care: it shows us smooth corners, gentle, seductive folds that we never though to find in tangos or bulerías. But it also reveals rhythmic roughness and coarseness pronounced in a different way and from a point of enunciation that is uncommon in flamenco.

From the tranquil fado to the tremulous bolero, and including the rondeña and tanguillos, Reinas del Matute is an invitation to indulge in this luminous resonant atmosphere. The arrangements are imaginative, surprising, pleasant. The result is a solid work of great quality, with the characteristic sound of Las Migas. Contraband has found its queens...

Ruben López, Doctor en Historia y Ciencia de la Música