GRAMMY Award-Winner Gaby Moreno's 'Alegoría' Out Today (4/22)
Above: Gaby Moreno; Credit: Alejandra Barragán
GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING SINGER-SONGWRITER
GABY MORENO
RELEASES SEVENTH FULL-LENGTH ALBUM
ALEGORÍA
ALBUM ARRIVES ON AN EARLY WAVE OF PRAISE
LOS ANGELES, CA (April 22, 2022) — GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter and producer Gaby Moreno has released her seventh full-length studio album, Alegoría. Out now via Metamorfosis, the 11-song Alegoría builds and expands on Moreno’s career, consistently exploring her ever-evolving artistic expression.
Listen to Alegoría here.
The self-produced Alegoría — songs in both English and Spanish exploring themes of hope, love, nostalgia and desolation — notably features, among others, her guitar heroes Marc Ribot and Davíd Garza. Armed with a warm, soulful sound, the album finds Gaby Moreno continuing to create music that offers an intoxicating invitation into her musical world for English and Spanish speakers alike. “It was always natural to me to create music using both languages because I speak both in my everyday life,” notes Moreno. “I just couldn’t turn my back on one or the other. I’m proud of my Latin roots, of being a Guatemalan immigrant. I love how languages have the capacity of connecting with so many different cultures and people. But in the end, it’s the power of music that speaks to all of us and brings us together.”
With Moreno self-producing Alegoría, she wanted to move into a new sonic landscape — “one that was more guitar-driven, leaning sometimes towards folk-rock and sometimes experimental” — she says. “It was important to first lay down the foundation with my band and later take a step back to listen and see if the song needed more layers.” For the new album, Moreno summoned her stellar rhythm section; Kimon Kirk on bass, Sebastian Aymanns on drums and Mike Piersante in the engineer chair.
Producing is not a new endeavor for the multi-dimensional creative portfolio that Moreno has built. In 2020 she produced, co-wrote and sang the duet “Bolero a La Vida” with legendary Cuban singer Omara Portuondo (Buena Vista Social Club), receiving a Latin GRAMMY nomination in the “Best Tropical Song” category. Gaby Moreno also produced six songs for Portuondo’s upcoming album set to be released later this year, featuring duets with Ruben Blades, Keb Mo and Dionne Warwick.
Whether it’s writing and composing for film/TV, producing other artists, finding her place in the voiceover world or working on her own music, Moreno remains fully immersed in music. She finalizes that across Alegoría, “each song sets a different mood - a rocker, a lament, a lullaby, a simple happy song. I can only hope there’s a little something for everyone.”
Alegoría Tracklisting:
“Nobody’s Wrong”
“Si En El Fondo”
“Cuando Nadie Miraba”
“‘Til Waking Light”
“Dulce Amor”
“Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow”
“Soñar Otra Vez”
“Lost On A Cloud”
“Lamento”
“Colibri”
“El Merendero Gratuito”
EARLY PRAISE FOR GABY MORENO’S ALEGORÍA:
“Alegoría, Gaby Moreno’s latest album, her seventh, has a cinematic quality to it, but not because of the instrumentation. Alegoría is cinematic because of how dynamic it is. It’s like watching a movie, one that will become a favorite, for the first time and being engrossed with every twist and turn. Moreno draws you in and doesn’t let you go…it has a free-flowing energy…you don’t know where Moreno will take you next, but it’s thrilling to be along for the ride.”
—Laura Stanley, No Depression, April 21, 2022
“Rocking with an acoustic guitar is no easy endeavor, but Gaby Moreno does it with excitement and unique touch [on ‘Nothing’s Wrong’]…little guitar riffs take the song beyond folk clichés, and Moreno’s voice communicates emotions in layers that the lyrics only hint at. There’s a melancholic vibe through the rocking chords that showcases a one-of-a-kind songwriter.”
--Marcos Hassan, Remezcla, March 11, 2022
“Gaby Moreno’s new single [‘Nobody’s Wrong’] is a rock ‘n’ roll-infused track that perfectly fuses with the Guatemalan singer/songwriter’s breathtaking voice. It has that Creedence Clearwater Revival kind of classic vibe that automatically takes you back in time to the ’60s or ’70s.”
--Ingrid Fajardo, Billboard, March 11, 2022
“Gaby Moreno tugs at our heart strings with this song [‘Si En El Fondo’] of uncertainty, desire and love.”
-- Karla Montalván, People en Español, April 15, 2022
“Few musical artists can boast a resumé as diverse of Gaby Moreno’s… Her forthcoming seventh album, Alegoría, doesn’t figure to disappoint…on the first track, ‘Nobody’s Wrong,’ Moreno leads with a rock punch — slightly countrified, vocally warm and more than a little bit timely.”
--Kevin Bronson, Buzzbands.LA, March 11, 2022
About Gaby Moreno:
Since moving to Los Angeles from her native Guatemala, singer-songwriter-producer Gaby Moreno has released six albums, earned a GRAMMY nomination for her album Illusion (Best Latin Pop Album, 2017), received multiple Latin GRAMMY nominations and won a Latin GRAMMY for “Best New Artist” in 2013. Her moving version of the classic song “Cucurrucucú Paloma” was chosen to play at the end of the emotional episode "God Bless America" for the last season of Netflix' original show, "Orange Is The New Black.” Over her career, Moreno has shared the international stage with pop music luminaries such as Bono, Andrea Boccelli, Tracy Chapman, Ani DiFranco, Punch Brothers, Hugh Laurie, Buena Vista Social Club, Calexico, David Gray and many more.
Her 2019 album, ¡Spangled! — a collaboration with musician, songwriter and arranger, Van Dyke Parks — is a set of ten songs celebrating the migration of music across the Americas and spans more than a century, including a bolero from Panama, a bossa nova from Brazil, and an elegiac ballad from Southwestern United States. The album features a duet with Jackson Browne and an art cover designed by Klaus Voormann (who designed The Beatles’ Revolver cover).
Gaby was also chosen to sing the theme song and voice a character (Marlena) on the multiple Emmy Award-winning Disney children’s television series, “Elena of Avalor,” which features Disney's first Latina princess. More recently, she composed all the music for the movie “Language Lessons,” directed by Natalie Morales and co-written/starring Morales and Mark Duplass.
