When Leonor Baldaque bought a guitar, she didn’t know that a new artistic expression, intense at this point, awaited her and became her new passion.
This came in addition to the other two that she had practised for years, acting in cinema as an actress for Manoel De Oliveira, and writing novels as an author published by two of the most prestigious and exclusive French literature publishers.
It was only three years ago that the guitar entered his life and the amount of songs he has composed since then is dizzying. Her involvement in music is not recent — she studied cello and piano — but, until now, as she says, “I didn’t know I had a voice.” This album is here to show that you have a voice, and what a voice: unique, deep, reciting like someone who sings, and singing like someone who recites. An engaging, medium-low voice that covers his texts with a disarming intimacy and an innate sense of representation.
In “A Few Dates of Love”, her debut album, Leonor Baldaque made a choice, partly chronological, starting at the beginning, partly narrative, telling a story, and selected ten songs. We are faced with a poet, first of all. From a storyteller. And a genius interpreter. The simplicity of the guitar, in most of the songs, is constantly surrounded by melodies that seem to travel alone over these notes. Your voice is given, it is withdrawn. Uncover and hide. His narrative is personal, using rich imagery, which is like a well of words, images and scenarios, almost bottomless. The wind, the journey, the love, the lack of it, the dusk over a guitar; summer, the outside, the Canyons, alcohol and a palace: passengers in her world, Leonor Baldaque takes us with her, and we cannot take our attention away from what she came to tell us.
An album that, without a doubt, we can describe as «independent», and which is like a journey within a multifaceted personality, and where we can just glimpse the presence, somewhere, of Leonard Cohen, of American Folk, of Folk-rock, but already distant. Leonor Baldaque took what she found and made her way. He is responsible for the lyrics and compositions and also directs and edits his music videos. “A Few Dates of Love” already sounds like a classic.
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