"Angel Eyes" (1946)
Matt Dennis/ Earl K. Brent
 
Voz- Fuensanta Méndez
Piano-Francisco Cruz
Bajo-Erick Quijivix
Batería-Jesús Rodríguez

Angel Eyes

"Daybreak"

Written by Ferde Grofe

Fuensanta Méndez - vocals
Liya Grigoryan - piano
Brodie Jarvie - acoustic bass
Guy Salamon - drums

Amsterdam, June 2016

Daybreak

"I Can't Help It"

Written by Betty Carter

Fuensanta Méndez - vocals
Francisco Cruz - piano
Jesús Rodríguez - drums
Stefan Mabarak - acoustic bass

15/07/2016 Puerto de Veracruz, México.

I Can't Help It

Para Aleph

Fuensanta Méndez - vocals
Nicolò Ricci - tenor saxophone
Xavier Torres - piano
Brodie Jarvie - bass
Guy Salamon - drums

Words and Music by Fuensanta Méndez

Recorded and mixed by Rob Strolenberg in Den Haag, 14/01/2017

Lyrics and English translation:

Rondas el misterio inmenso
Te deslizaste a la obscuridad inasible
de un teatro con las luces apagadas.
Y yo no puedo evitar
relacionarlo con la obscuridad
que a veces devora mis sueños
de fuego negro y ardiente,
entre bolas hermosas de luz
que no tienen piedad ni crueldad,
tu vida se expande.

No habrá jamás
algo que llamemos destruido.
El espacio-tiempo es un tejido que es fluido,
caminamos a través,
nada se ha ido.

Entre el todo y la nada
hay lentes de un observador.
Entre el todo y la nada,
todo es majestuoso.

Pienso en ti
habitando los lugares de tu imaginación,
visitando Los Pilares de la Creación.

Nada se ha ido.

ENGLISH: 

You wander the eternal mystery.
You slipped into the unfathomable darkness
of a theater with the lights off.
And I can't help relating it
to the darkness
that sometimes devoures my dreams
of black and burning fire,
among beautiful spheres of light
that have no mercy nor cruelty,
your life is expanded.

There will never be
something we call destroyed.
Space-time is a fabric that is fluid,
we walk through it,
nothing is gone.

Between everything and nothing
lies the glass of an observer.
Among everything and nothing,
it is all majestic.

I think of you
inhabiting the places of your imagination,
visiting The Pillars of Creation.

Nothing is gone.

Para Aleph

Empatía

Fuensanta Méndez - vocals
Nicolò Ricci - tenor saxophone
Liya Grigoryan - piano
Brodie Jarvie - bass
Guy Salamon - drums

Music by Fuensanta Méndez
Recorded and mastered by Hayden Zappa Hook
Live at North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam, NL. 09/07/2017

Empatía

Canción Contra Mi Apatía (Song Against My Apathy)

Fuensanta Méndez - vocals
Nicolò Ricci - tenor saxophone
Liya Grigoryan - piano
Brodie Jarvie - bass
Guy Salamon - drums

Words and music by Fuensanta Méndez
Recorded and mastered by Hayden Zappa Hook
Live at North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam, NL. 09/07/2017

Canción Contra Mi Apatía

No Será Regresar

Fuensanta Méndez - vocals
Nicolò Ricci - tenor saxophone
Liya Grigoryan - piano
Brodie Jarvie - bass
Guy Salamon - drums

Words and music by Fuensanta Méndez
Recorded and mastered by Hayden Zappa Hook
Live at North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam, NL. 09/07/2017

Words and English translation:

ESPAÑOL:
No será regresar
Ni tocar los colores febriles
Que habitaron mis sienes.
No los sueños infantiles
de la rabia más hermosa.
No el cardumen de esperanza 
Ni los pájaros ansiosos.
No será regresar.

Una a una tuve grietas
Que se inundaron de lluvia 
Grietas grises, muertas, tristes
Deslavaron mis olores.

Un goteo interminable cae 
  sobre la frente de un ave.

A los pájaros insomnes
      ya les ha llegado tiempo.
No será regresar.

Yo seré, 
En tierras pálidas,
Desgarre de bugambilias;
Golpe de lágrimas
Sobre la anestesia tibia,
La obsidiana lisa y negra
Entre desiertas cortesías.
Yo soy el gracias muy sincero
Abandonando el tranvía.

ENGLISH:

It won't be going back.
Nor touching the feverish colours 
That inhabited my temper.
Not the childish dreams
Of the most beautiful anger.
Not the shoal of hope 
Nor the anxious birds.
It won't be going back.

One by one I had cracks
That were flooded in rain.
Grey, sad, dead cracks
Washed away my scent.

An endless dripping falls 
against a fowl's forehead.


For the sleepless birds
        the time has come.
It won't be going back.

I will be,
In pale lands,
The gashing of bougainvillea;
A slam of tears
In the warm anaesthesia,
The black smooth obsidian
Among deserted courtesies.
I am the very sincere thank you
Abandoning the tramcar.

No Será Regresar

Pájaros Azules

Fuensanta Méndez - vocals and jarana
Teis Semey - guitar

Words and music by Fuensanta Méndez
Recorded and mastered by Hayden Zappa Hook
Live at North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam, NL. 09/07/2017

Pájaros Azules

Fuensanta Méndez - vocals
Teis Semey - guitar
Nicolò Ricci - tenor saxophone
Liya Grigoryan - piano
Brodie Jarvie - bass
Guy Salamon - drums

Words and music by Fuensanta Méndez
Recorded and mastered by Hayden Zappa Hook
Live at North Sea Jazz, Rotterdam, NL. 09/07/2017

Cuántas

Para Aleph - [solo In LA]

Texture -

Alistair/Fuensanta/José (demo)

Fuensanta Méndez - voice and double bass
Alistair Payne - trumpet
José Soares - alto saxophone

1. Jacintos (Ali/Fuen/José)
2. Noche (Fuensanta Méndez)
3. Yo te buscaba tanto (Fuensanta Méndez)
4. Foam (Alistair Payne)
5. Three fragments (José Soares/Fuensanta Méndez)

Amsterdam 2019 and 2020.

5. Three Fragments

4. Foam

3. Yo te buscaba tanto

2. Noche

1. Jacintos

Música y letra de Percy Mayfield

Francisco Cruz - piano
Vladimir Coronel - batería
Aleph Castañeda - bajo
Beto Jiménez - guitarra
Fuensanta Méndez - voz

But On The Other Hand, Baby

voice, double-bass, composer, improviser & poetry.
born and raised in the water forest of Veracruz [México] & based in Amsterdam.

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