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The EmblemSmudged Discs 2011 With her new album The Emblem, Clara sums up her chief preoccupations as an artist: the juxtaposition of ideas and influences in life, pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that fit together perfectly, assembled to produce a complete picture, an emblem. The result is an eloquent, diverse and unquestionable musical tableau, consisting of ten original songs and a folksong, intended for the modern listener. On this album Sanabras plays charango, baroque guitar, telecaster and Indian harmonium, the latter central to the meditative duet The Owls (Les Hiboux), based on a Baudelaire poem and featuring Rosemary Standley, lead singer of internationally-acclaimed French band Moriarty. Dovetailing Love, explores the idea of “The Craft of Love” in a dramatic Ennio Morricone style while the South American rhythms in Tokyo Cherry Blossom, urge us to make the most of life and takes the listener in yet another direction. |
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Hopetown HouseSmudged Discs 2009 Subtitled ‘Songs of Coincidence and Fate’, Hopetown House is full of delightful subtleties. The songs spring from a real moment in time and have many and varied themes – Forgiveness for an absent father (Good Ship Father) – Paranoia (Not a man of many words) – Contagious Laughter on another aeroplane journey (Nadie Se Salva) – all these things observed with the eye of an outsider but the spirit of a local. There are two folk-like songs “The Good Ship Father” and “First Goodbye”, the latter sung as a duet with Luke Concannon, lead singer of chart-topping band Nizlopi. Sanabras sings mainly in English but includes two songs in Spanish and one written in her native Catalan. Musically speaking, Clara’s influences are diverse – taking various styles Tango, Blues, a ramshackle kind of Swing, but making them distinctively her own. Read the reviews for Hopetown House here. |
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Clara & The Real LowdownSmudged Discs 2008 A mixture original songs and covers from different countries this disc is Clara’s sensational debut as a singer-songwriter. Her English translated version of Joan Manel Serrat’s famous song Mediterráneo created a stir amongst listeners and keeps being played weekly on Spanish Radio 3. Recorded in its entirety at home, the album was produced by maverick composer Harvey Brough and mixed by legendary engineer Peter Schwier at Real World Studios. It received great international acclaim and remains a classic. |
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Nada Igual – SingleEmuBands 2006 Clara’s hit song in Spanish “Nada Igual” was used in the famous Telemundo production “La Reina del Sur” and was no.1 in the iTunes charts in September 2011. |