Federico Garcia Lorca's popular folk song collection "Las Canciones Populares Espanolas" was banned under Franco's dictatorship and today the music survives but marginally within the Spanish sub-conscious. Taking their cue from Lorca and La Argentinita's infectious 1931 recording of the songs, Josephine Foster and her partner Spanish musician Victor Herrero have arranged the poetically rich collection for their new acoustic band, formed while living in the Grenadine Sierra. Anda Jaleo is the band's live recording of "Las Canciones"; a visceral celebration of the persistance of popular anonymous song.
Printed on inner sleeve:
"Arrangements of the Popular Spanish Songs collected and harmonized by Federico García Lorca."
"These arrangements of the "Popular Spanish Songs" were made by Josephine Foster & Victor Herrero, inspired by both the original harmonizations of Federico García Lorca as well as his 1931 recording with La Argentinita.
The English translations of the songs are courtesy of Sonifolk records, and proceed from their edition of the album "Federico García Lorca y La Argentinita - Canciones Populares Españolas". They appear here in a new adaption made by Josephine Foster and Victor Herrero."
Recorded live in Mecina Bombarón, Granada, August 2009.
Mixed at Eastcote Studios, London.
Mastered at Shape Shoppe, Chicago.
℗ 2010 Fire Records © 2010 Fire Records.
