If the Night Goes Dark
Camille Zamora

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The seeds of this album were planted, as Zamora relates in her lively, informative album note, in “a dusty music shop on a side street” in Madrid, where she’d sought “refuge from the midday sun.” There, she writes, “I stumbled upon some out-of-print folios. My Texan-Spanish-New Yorker self recognized in the yellowed pages certain essential parts of my own musical makeup: the canciones my father sang to me as a child while accompanying himself on his guitar, the stories of my grandfather serenading my grandmother in his sweetly scratchy baritone, my very first classical album featuring Victoria de los Angeles singing zarzuela in her crystalline soprano. . . . Flipping through those old scores that afternoon and humming under my breath, I fell in love with the songs. I resonated with the light-dark Spanish sensibility built into the melodies . . . the awareness of sorrow in joy and joy in sorrow.