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David Byrne (Talking Heads) further her fame internationally when he signed and released her 1997 self-titled album on his very diverse world music record label, Luaka Pop. Since then, he's been steadily releasing her music and Seis Poemas is the fifth release from the label (she has quite a few release on her native country, but I'm only including the US discography here - feel free to check her website for additional discography information).
In Baca's own words, she described her music as:
That is exactly how I would describe this latest release from her: a bit of traditional and a bit of modern songs. In fact, actually, these were poems (the title translate to Six Poems) that she made into songs. Most of these songs/poems were mostly written by Chabuca Granda (a famous Peruvian singer/songwriter who died in 1983), but I did notice one of the song, "Los Lagartos", was credited to Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who mysterious disappeared at the start of the Spanish Civil War in the mid-1930s.My repertoire is both old and new, it has to be that way. That's how you mature in life, and how you grow into your culture. I have traditional songs about the life of our grandparents in the countryside, others are more about rhythm and dancing. These are the festejo, the landó, the golpe é tierra. There are songs more tied to city life and more composed music: the waltz, the marinera and the zamacueca. Then there are those which in their joy and pain share a diversity of rhythmic and interpretative aims; like Afro-Peruvian culture, they are mixtures of very different forms.
Also, what I like about Seis Poemas, is that all of the poems are translated in English. This makes a whole lot of sense to me since it's being release domestically, but I sort of wish they also reprinted the original Spanish version.
If you don't speak Spanish, like me, the translate help a lot. In the first song, "El Bosque Armado (La Canoa)", she sings about a canoe in Pureto Maldonado... then a shot and someone dies. The poem/song is journey through the dangerous territory of "the armed forest". The song isn't loud and commanding, but instead the arrangement is calming acoustic guitar with Baca's beautiful voice singing about the canoe.
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