Rosalia: if she doesn’t touch you, I just don’t wanna know you
My two favorite countries are Japan and Spain. And I love very many different kinds of music very very much, but the sounds that are guaranteed to bring tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat are those of the gamelan and flamenco music.
Flamenco is the music of the battered but unbroken people. It contains pain and grief but also warm love and proud defiance.
Rosalia gives flamenco her own new spin, staying true to the spirit of it, but bringing it no a new, different level. I discovered her via Bee.hype and was immediately smitten by her and her amazing music.
This is so wonderful, so beautiful, so energetic and inspiring, so heartfelt, so consoling. Her voice is so powerful, so full of ancient knowledge and eternal wisdom. So dramatic and compelling.
But judge for yourself, before I run out of cliches to try to describe something that has to be felt. See? Another dumb cliche.
Check out her debut album, Los Ángeles. (PB)
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