Andrea Buenavista is the new singer-songwriter that you should listen to if you like Spanish author songs, performed with a dry and wise voice. She also explores different musical styles with grace and ease in ‘Penas de amor’, her debut album, published by Sonido Muchacho. He is interested in Americana (‘Llorón’) as much as rumba (‘Noche de pena’) or Colombian guaracha (‘Buenavista’).
Buenavista’s voice resembles that of that “wise friend who, glass and cigar in hand, steaming coffee at her side, sitting at a table at dawn, guides you through your sorrows,” in the words of Sonido Muchacho. Her voice is one of Buenavista’s main attractions, even though she started in music playing the keyboard: she is Andrea Gasca, former keyboardist for Los Lagos de Hinault.
The songs on ‘Penas de amor’ were born from Buenavista’s need to challenge herself, to prove that she is capable of composing songs, like her friends did. In his lyrics he analyzes the hardships of love from a natural and everyday point of view. In ‘Llorón’, Buenavista points out a boy who cannot stop “taking a girlfriend” and who does not know emotional responsibility, in ‘Noche de pena’ he turns to alcohol to feel closer to the person he likes, and in plaintive ‘Someone Better’ clings to the future: “someday there will be someone better than you.”
But Buenavista’s songs do not renounce humor: in ‘Buenavista’ he gracefully remembers his childhood, although the cake goes to ‘Escúpeme’, in which he makes out with a co-worker – whom he actually asks to spit on – and He keeps an eye out to make sure his boss doesn’t discover them.
‘Penas de amor’, an album that has been in the making for four years, features the participation of such interesting musicians, and those who have been talked about so much in recent times, such as Maria Rodés, Roberto Miranda (You), Javier Carrasco ( Betacam), Lucas Bolaño (Shooting Star) or Clara Collantes.
