Roxana Amed – Todos los Fuegos (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:33 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Award-winning Argentine jazz vocalist Roxana Amed unveils her latest album, Todos Los Fuegos, a striking reinterpretation of Argentine rock classics infused with jazz improvisation and contemporary sound design. Featuring an all-star lineup, the album explores works by legendary musicians Charly García, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Fito Páez, and Gustavo Cerati, bridging Argentina’s rich rock heritage with Amed’s unique modern jazz vocals.
Amed, known for her genre-defying originality and sensual contralto, has long been celebrated for her ability to blend Argentine folk, rock, and classical influences with contemporary jazz. With Todos Los Fuegos, she embarks on a new challenge—curating a selection of iconic songs that broke barriers, reinventing them through jazz-tinged arrangements.
“These songs were groundbreaking in their time, bending the rules of harmony, melody, and poetry in a way that changed Latin American music forever,” says Amed. “My goal was to honor their essence while creating a new language that speaks to both jazz and rock audiences alike.”
Amed’s vision comes to life with the help of celebrated pianist, arranger, and fellow Argentine Leo Genovese, who serves as a key collaborator on the project. Together, they craft a dynamic musical landscape. The album also features Tim Lefebvre(David Bowie’s Blackstar, Tedeschi Trucks Band) on electric bass, Kenny Wollesen (John Zorn, Bill Frisell) on drums, and Mark Small (Michael Bublé, Darcy James Argue) on saxophones and clarinet.Singer Roxana Amed blends her sophisticated fusion jazz with Argentine rock traditions on 2025’s sonically engaging Todos Los Fuegos. A collaboration with Argentine pianist, arranger, and co-producer Leo Genovese, the album finds Amed reinterpreting songs by foundational figures of Argentine rock, including Charly García and Serú Girán, Soda Stereo, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Fito Páez, and Gustavo Cerati. These are songs that American audiences might not be as familiar with, but which helped to define the sound of rock en espanol in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Joining Amed and Genovese is an all-star ensemble, featuring saxophonist/clarinetist Mark Small, bassist Tim Lefebvre, and drummer Kenny Wollesen.Together, they dig into these lyrical songs, expanding upon the original arrangements with an improvisational jazz creativity, but one accented with spacey, organic textures and psychedelic, vinyl-era flourishes. To these ends, Small plays a delicate soprano solo against a swirling vortex of analog synth on Serú Girán’s “Cinéma Vérité,” while Wolleson lays down a heavy rock groove as Genovese leans into a blown-out acid-organ riff on Fito Páez’s “Cuidad de Pobres Corazones.” Elsewhere, they evoke the bird-like, globally-minded Tropicalia of Gal Costa and Caetano Veloso on Charly Garcia’s “Salir de Melancholia” and summon an orchestral baroque pop majesty on Gustavo Cerati’s “Corazon Delator.” Throughout it all, Amed leads the ensemble, singing with a yearning, cinnamon-dusted warmth, embracing each song with virtuosic, cabaret intensity. Amed and Genovese also offer their own original song, “Diamonds,” which, as with all off Todos Los Fuegos, works as a fitting aesthetic bridge between the singer’s contemporary recordings and the classic, progressive rock she is taking inspiration from. – Matt Collar
Tracklist:
1-1. Roxana Amed – Salir de la melancolía (02:49)
1-2. Roxana Amed – Cinema verité (05:35)
1-3. Roxana Amed – Asilo en tu corazón (06:10)
1-4. Roxana Amed – Vida siempre (05:58)
1-5. Roxana Amed – Corazón delator (05:46)
1-6. Roxana Amed – Ciudad de pobres corazones (04:10)
1-7. Roxana Amed – La sed verdadera (03:56)
1-8. Roxana Amed – Dejaste ver tu corazón (06:45)
1-9. Roxana Amed – Verbo carne (05:06)
1-10. Roxana Amed – Diamonds (06:12)
1-11. Roxana Amed – La sed verdadera (Alternate take) (04:00)