Foster, Josephine & The Victor Herrero Band - Anda Jaleo/Perlas [CD]

Federico Garcia Lorca’s popular folk song collection “Las Canciones Populares Espanolas” was banned under Franco’s dictatorship and to-day 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 Sier-ra. Anda Jaleo is the band’s live recording of “Las Canciones”; a viscer-al celebration of the persistance of popular anonymous song.