LA BIEN QUERIDA’s debut album, “Romancero”, enchanted thousands of people in Spain, filled everyone with passion, was highlighted by the most important media and since it went on sale a little over a year ago, “Romancero” hasn’t stopped being praised and hasn’t stopped recruiting fans all over the world. Now it’s Mexico and the USA’s turn; “Romancero” is being released in Mexico on our new affiliate Elefant Records Mexico and in the USA on the well-known Latin American label Nacional Records.

The first reactions to the album’s release, both in Mexico and in the USA, have been spectacular. Ana is currently doing promotion in Mexico and she’ll be playing 4 special acoustic concerts there. As we’ve already mentioned, she was invited by Julieta Venegas to open in two concerts in Monterrey and Mexico City (in the Luis Elizondo auditorium in Monterrey and in the Metropolitan theater in Mexico City) and she will also be at the official presentation party for Elefant Records Mexico in the Imperial Club as well as another label presentation in the Centro Cultural de España in Mexico City.

This coming month of July she will travel to New York to promote the disc’s release in the USA and to participate live in the LAMC (Latin Alternative Music Conference), a festival-conference that is celebrating their eleventh edition this year, and that has become the most vital event in independent Latin [ Read more ]

A new adventure is beginning that fills us, at Elefant Records, with joy and excitement. It was a subject we were waiting to take on and, finally, after a long time of thinking every detail over and finding a team of incredible people, we can finally announce the birth of Elefant Records Mexico with all the hype it deserves. With the same spirit as ever, with the same, if not more, excitement and with a ton of plans and projects that we hope will satisfy all the fans of pop music in Mexico. In time we also hope to offer releases from outside of our catalog with the idea of turning Elefant Records Mexico into a point of reference for international independent music. We are aware of the extremely important moment in history that Mexico is going through at the moment, a tremendous cultural explosion across the entire country of groups, artists, creators… And a ton of people anxious to get involved in it and live the moment to its fullest, enjoying the euphoria of what’s been going on there for the last couple years as much as possible. Elefant wants to be a part of all that and to contribute with our albums, parties, group tours… We are aware of the great number of fans and followers Elefant has in Mexico and we have been waiting for this moment to arrive for years. Elefant Records, in these 20 years of existence, has reached almost every place on the planet, but in the Latin American countries it has always been really difficult for independent labels to mak [ Read more ]

The song "9.6" (taken from the band’s successful first album "Romancero"), has been selected for Sanitas’ new television campaign "When cancer appears, unity grows".

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"Ópera egipcia" is the eight album by the band from Granada and the first studio album since the 2007 release of "La leyenda del espacio". The album will be out on April 13th and will consist of 12 songs, among them, ‘No sé como te atreves’ and ‘La veleta’, both of which LA BIEN QUERIDA’s Ana Fernández-Villaverde sings on.

In a recent interview, Ana told us how this collaboration came to be and talked a little about the songs she collaborated on:"I’ve known them for a long time and they are one of my favorite groups”. One of the songs is a duet, “No sé cómo te atreves” and the other, “La Veleta”– I sing it alone – is a beautiful sevillana. They’ve been doing this for a long time and they really know how to keep it quality; they are exemplary"

“No sé cómo te atreves”, one of the songs LA BIEN QUERIDA collaborates on, has been chosen as the album’s first single. You can get the song in digital format starting on March 2nd.  [ Read more ]

Directed by Nadia Mata Portillo (also, with Federico Strate Pezdirc, responsible for CORAZON’s video-clip “Nuevo Futuro "), “Corpus Christi” is a great song that charms its listeners into falling in love, maybe one of the most beautiful declarations of love every sung. Nadia has done great work, she knows how to perfectly capture the mood of the song, the words describe a “moment of anger”, as Ana herself tells us, and the images manage to amplify the emotional impact even more. It’s a work of art in its purest form, able to communicate the most touching emotions. It’s an example of good taste and another gorgeous video for our collection. Though it seems incredible, this is the second video-clip by Nadia, one of our favorite audio-visual artists who will show us, little by little, in her coming video-clips, her enormous talent, her sensitivity and her good work.

“Corpus Christi”, taken from LA BIEN QUERIDA’s acclaimed debut album, was filmed in the sierra of Navacerrada, in an enigmatic location, the Santo Angle hospital, also known as “La Barranca” (the ravine). Two buildings, one for the anti-tuberculosis sanitarium where pulmonary illnesses were treated, and the other building was the psychiatric ward for mental illnesses. It is currently totally abandoned, but all of the mysterious stories that go around about the place, and the paranormal activity, make daring adventurers in search of [ Read more ]

The winners will be announced on February 17th. The complete list of nominees is available on the Los Premios de la Música website.   [ Read more ]

MONDO SONORO cover page  [January 2010]

Among the best of the year in: Efe Eme, Go Magazine, La Nadadora, Je Ne Sais Pop, PlayGround …

Performing at the Mondo Sonoro "Fiestas Demoscópicas" [Madrid / Barcelona]

LA BIEN QUERIDA: chosen as album of the year by MONDO SONORO and ROCKDELUX magazinespicture: “Romancero” ha sido elegido disco del año para las revistas Rockdelux y Mondo Sonoro12/01/2010

LA BIEN QUERIDA: chosen as album of the year by MONDO SONORO and ROCKDELUX magazinespicture: “Romancero” ha sido elegido disco del año para las revistas Rockdelux y Mondo Sonoro12/01/2010

LA BIEN QUERIDA: chosen as album of the year by MONDO SONORO and ROCKDELUX magazinespicture: “Romancero” ha sido elegido disco del año para las revistas Rockdelux y Mondo Sonoro12/01/2010 [ Read more ]

Hello Everyone!Another year has passed, a special year for us as we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the label, and we did it the best way we know how: releasing a ton of good music. We put out 22 new releases in total – 13 albums and 9 singles. It was an intense year in every way it could be and a year in which a little bit of everything that can happen, happened. And despite all of the problems that the music world is going through we managed to survive another year and we are full of hope and excitement about 2010.

We are aware of the requests and the things that fans of the label are most worried about and we are working hard on all of it in order to try to have everything organized and updated in the first few months of the new year, so that it is easier to be up to date with everything that’s happening with our groups and our label. We’ve been working on the new Elefant website for the last few weeks, a new website that will maintain a similar design to the old website, but that will be much easier to use, much more intuitive, faster, and clearer. Yes, we are getting rid of Real Audio and you’ll be able to listen to the songs without having a player installed, and you’ll be able to change quickly and simply from the site in Spanish to the site in English from any page. We’re also going to have our new Elefant On-line store with great improvements. We’re closing deals to be able to have the entire catalog available on Spoti [ Read more ]

HIDROGENESSE have made two remixes of LA BIEN QUERIDA’s song 9.6. One of them was included on the single “9.6 (versiones)” that we at Elefant recently released, and the other can be heard now on HIDROGENESSE’s Myspace page. The two remixes are really different: “French Hot Dog” is comical, brief and stubborn, while “RendezVous Américain” is cosmic, long and indecisive. [HIDROGENESSE]

The first remix is included on the CD-Single “9.6 (Versiones)” together with Guille Milkyway’s remix of LA CASA AZUL, the original version included on the album and the demo version.

You can listen to both remixes con HIDROGENESSE’s Myspace page.http://www.myspace.com/hidrogenesse

Audio LA CASA AZUL remix HERE:http://www.myspace.com/elefantrecords

La Bien Queridapicture: Ilustración: Carlos Ballesteros [Hidrogenesse]

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LA BIEN QUERIDA has gone from being one of Spanish pop’s biggest promises to being one of the most amazing realities that has hit the national panorama in years. “Romancero” has been acclaimed in all the press, earning covers of various publications (EP3, Mondo Sonoro, Plástica and El Obrero Digital), various praise and elegies, selected as one of the best albums of the year. Ana Fernández-Villaverde has already made her way across half of Spain as well as to a few other festivals (Primavera Sound, FIB, Contempopranea, South Pop Isla Cristina, etc.). Here at Elefant we are continuing on with this incredible phenomenon with the release of a single called “9.6”, one of the most talked about songs because of the surprising disco-pop that the song gives us after those 45 seconds of acoustic introduction, meaning one of the compositions that has mutated the most from its original conception to its final result on the disc (this CD includes the demo version recorded at Ana’s house more than two years ago now). So the two remixes included on this new single celebrate this marked evolution: the remix by Guille Milkyway emits a sweet Motown only to finish in an amazing rhythmic game with a new and different musical conception, while the HIDROGENESSE remix takes the track much more boldly and brazenly and plays a fun game with the lyrics. Finally, the release contains the video-clip made specifically for the song, directed by Luis [ Read more ]

Elefant has the privilege of finally releasing the debut album of LA BIEN QUERIDA, the stage name of Ana Fernández-Villaverde. It is one of the most anticipated albums of Spanish indie-pop in recent years due to the enormous impression that her demo made, both in the press (chosen best of 2007 by Mondo Sonoro and highlighted by Rockdelux) and with the public (her myspace page, with more than 125,000 listens, is one of the most visited pages for an artist who hasn’t released an album). Even among other musicians (not only are J from LOS PLANETAS, David from BEEF and LA BUENA VIDA fans, Antonio Luque of SR CHINARRO even lent her his band in her first concerts. LA BIEN QUERIDA recorded “Romancero” with David Rodríguez (BEEF), fitting the creativity that David shows in his solo project LA ESTRELLA DE DAVID with the clean sounds and sweet voice in her marvelous songs. And it’s a magical union of charming melodies with stratospheric arrangements and a unique production that mixes flamenco, Arab music, rancheras and even techno, turning every song into a small work of art, with a moving capacity to reach your heart , and lyrics that are as sincere as they are intelligent. This is, without a doubt, a disc that will make history.

Tracklist: 01. Ya no 02. Corpus christi 03. De momento abril 04. Adn 05. 9.6 06. Cuando lo intentas 07. El zoo absoluto 08. 7 medidas de seguridad 09. Bendita 10. Santa fe 11. Los estados generales 12. Golpe de estad [ Read more ]

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