Eres Luz

Nina Pastori | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 27, 1999)
• Original Release Date: April 27, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA Intl
• ASIN: B00000IQKB
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #630,347 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Eres Luz

2. Cartita de Amor

3. Vivo un Sueño

4. Como Tu Ninguna

5. Que Pena

6. Dos Que Se Quieren

7. En Una Canasta

8. De Carmelo

9. Morao [Nuera Version]

10. Gitanito Canastero

11. Nunca Acabaré de Conocrete

12. Genios

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Bubble-gum" Flamenco, July 31, 2000

By 

L. K. Coleman (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eres Luz (Audio CD)

I really hate to be the guy to give this album a lower rating, but.... Yes, "La Nin~a" has a very flamenco voice, is an accomplished singer, etc. - but unfortunately so much of what she has to offer is wasted in this album. This is flamenco kitsch, specially engineered to appeal to a youthful Spanish mass market by the album's producer, Paco Ortga, a man with much more of a nose for money than an ear for flamenco. However, trying to make La Nin~a Pastori into a Spanish Britney Spears seemed to help make this album become the biggest seller of any flamenco singer in Spain. Nevertheless, just because an album is immensely popular and enjoys commercial success in Spain does not automatically establish its merit within the flamenco idiom, whether "new" or traditional, and this recording follows in the footsteps of albums past produced by other flamenco artists who enjoyed great success by commercializing (i.e., "dumbing down") their product; e.g., Peret, Marisol, Bambino, even the legendary and indisputably great Manolo Caracol.

Thankfully, "La Nin~a" broke with Paco Ortega and has followed-up on the success of "Eres Luz" with her latest release, "Can~ailla" ((c)2000, #7 4327155402 6) an album that is also very modern but much more infused with the authentic earthiness of flamenco, due in no small part to the ablum's new producers, which include Jose Miguel Carmona. You'll hear on "Can~ailla" what Nin~a Pastori is really capable of, starting with the first cut, a buleria on which you can hear Vicente Amigo sing (and damn well at that). "Can~ailla" is "new flamenco" at its best, not the kitschy pap that most of the cuts on "Eres Luz" represent. I hope Amazon.com will start carrying it soon so that it will be available to a wider audience - and because compared to "Eres Luz" it will be a revelation.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente disco de música flamenca, August 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eres Luz (Audio CD)

Well, I am not the first in comment this disk, then I will say something in Spanish, in order to be the first to do it in Spanish. Niña Pastori promete muchísimo, es aún muy joven, tiene la voz flamenca necesaria para triunfar y personalidad en su canto. En América aún es desconocida, pero este excelente disco apunta a que pronto triunfará por estos lares.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must buy for modern flamenco aficionados!, May 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eres Luz (Audio CD)

La Niña Pastori, what else can be said? I actually met her 3 years ago in Salobreña, Granada. Her mastery of the compás is absolute and her "rasgada" voice is unique and very flamenca. The only thing better than listening to her recorded is listening to her live! I thank Undivé (God in caló, the Spanish gypsy language) that I had such an opportunity at the ancient Salobreña's Moorish castle...