Spanish singer Amaia has made her debut at NPR's Tiny Desk Concert, showcasing her talent as a multi-instrumentalist.
She kicks off the set with two songs from her most recent album, Si Abro Los Ojos No Es Real, which are "C'est La Vie" and "Nanai." For the latter, Amaia gracefully picks up the folding chair she had been sitting on during the opening song to play the piano – and starts blowing air into it, revealing it was also a flute (crafted by Xavier Lozano) all this time, which she casually rests on her shoulders when she’s not playing it.
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Following the display of chair flute, Amaia continues with “Zorongo,” a mashup between “Zorongo Gitano” — a traditional Andalusian song and dance, best known for a 1931 version recorded by Federico García Lorca (who collected and re-harmonized it) and La Argentinita, in piano and voice, respectively — and “Rumores de la Caleta,” one of Isaac Albéniz’s most popular compositions, subtitled “Malagueña.”
She follows that with two more cuts from her latest LP, “Auxiliar” and “Giratutto,” and closes the set with “Yamaguchi,” a track dedicated to a park in her hometown of Pamplona.
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