Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band release their new album Perlas today via Fire Records.

It is a collection of songs and poems selected by Josephine herself, gathered from dusty old scores and brought vividly to the present with warm performances full of flesh-and-blood emotion. Sung in Spanish, the album overflows with an outpouring of melancholy and sorrow, but also of joy and excitement.

The result is a heady combination that creates a powerfully compelling and evocative feel of authentic folk traditions. Close your eyes and Perlas effortlessly carries you away to a dusty, lost-in-time village somewhere high in the mountains of Andalusia.

Listen to the ferocious finale to album opener Puerto De Santa Maria and to the intricate and sweetly beautiful Sangre Colorada.

Order from Fire here.

Download Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band – Puerto De Santa Maria mp3 (from Perlas)

Download Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band – Sangre Colorada mp3 (from Perlas)