★★★★★
The petite Mallorcan's star remains in the ascendant. Now relocated to Miami, she's clearly reaching for a pan-American audience on this sixth album. It's an eclectic affair, taking her acrobatic flamenco vocals into a more jazz flavoured zone and mixing her songs with covers of Jacques Brel and Abbey Lincoln...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-06-23
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDBuikaEn Mi Piel (Best Of)Warner Classics2011 Feted in Europe for her smoky vocals and flamenco-soul fusions, this Spanish diva has yet to make an impact here, though her melodramatic theme tune for Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In will surely have turned ears her way. "Por El Amor de Amar" opens a two-CD selection of her output, most of it in a jazzy, nu-flamenco style created by guitarist/producer Javier Limón...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2011-11-17
★★★★★
Track Listing: La Falsa Moneda; Culpa Mi-a; Mienteme Bien; La Niña de Fuego; Arboles de Agua; La Niebla; No Habra Nadie en el Mundo; Volver, Volver; Volveras; Mentirosa; Hay en la Luz. Personnel: Buika: vocals; Javier Limón: flamenco guitar; Ivan "Melon" Lewis: piano; Danny Noel: bass; Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez: drums; Ramon Porrina, Piraña: percussion; Carlitos Surdy: trumpet; Mandela: trombone; Paquete: guitar...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Despite the title, Concha Buika is clearly no longer the little girl of fire, showing with grace and passion that she is courageous and self-aware enough to expose her soul around the juerga. Many commentators are giving her the mantle of the new flamenco starlet. Yet on this LP she proves - guided by the sensitive and poignant direction of producer Javier Limón - that she can lend her sun-drenched, oaky voice both to the traditional and the fusion...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Buika grew up as Concha Buika in a gypsy community on Spanish Mallorca, and made her mark in Madrid by combining flamenco music with jazz, soul and other idioms. Flamenco vocals are prone to out-of-control emotional bursts, often manifested in hoarse, piercing eruptions during moments of peak intensity...
- www.globalrhythm.com
2009-05-18
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