Tori Sparks - La Huerta (2017)

American singer-songwriter Tori Sparks made the move from Nashville, TN (US) to Barcelona. Her fifth album El Mar (Glass Mountain Records, 2014) was a collaboration with flamenco fusion trio Calamento. The album began as a curious experiment after a chance meeting at a benefit concert. Over months of rehearsals in a basement in Barcelona, a strange and beautiful synthesis sprang from the mix of Tori's blues, rock, and folk sensibilities with the Spanish musicians' atypical take on flamenco and jazz fusion. The bilingual project was an unexpected international success, called "indescribable, incredible" (Deruting), "adventurous, pushing the envelope" (Rolling Stone), and "extremely special, a monster of a record [Top 20 Albums of the Year]" (Orpheo). The band went on to triumph on the festival circuit (Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival, (In)Fusion Flamenca, the GREC Festival, others) as well as in tours in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and beyond. Two years later, Tori Sparks + Calamento have returned to the studio, but with one major difference: The quartet has become a quintet.
"La Huerta" (la ware-tah), means "the garden" in Spanish. This isn't a garden composed of hothouse flowers and luxury landscaping - it's the garden you'd find behind your house, full of nourishing plants, wild creatures, and weeds. It's the patch of land where you plant your expectations, decisions, dreams, hopes, hatreds, losses, wishes, loves, mistakes. This is where the fruit of every seed you have ever planted grows. and grows.
Tori Sparks, Calamento and El Rubio presented the new album La Huerta for the first time in concert at Luz de Gas in Barcelona on February 23rd, and at Sala Clamores in Madrid on March 30th.