VERDE PRATO

Her name is Ana and VERDE PRATO is a shade of green no palette could be without, should you wish to paint a picture of her homeland, the Basque Country. She marches to the beat of her own drum because she plays all her own instruments and is at her most comfortable when she needs to rely on nothing but her own voice. Hers in the image on the cover, and hers are the brushstrokes.

Her language is Euskera, whose ancestral origins lay beyond the reach of historians and linguists, as enigmatic as the woman standing before me.

Her songs, steeped in tradition, tell the tale of a young man who leaves his home town heading for the city but the sound Jon Aguirrezabalaga (We are Standard) creates with his bold electronic production tears us away from the past, dropping us squarely in the present.

A tale of love, family, friendship, but also of fear, absence and desire, seen through the eyes of each of the characters in this story as they watch him leave. A journey into the profoundly singular vision of a woman whose soundscapes defy any label.

“When Verde Prato first entered my field of vision it was hard not to be stuck by the delicacy of her movement and her shy composure. It was when she began to sing that my eyesight became superfluous and I had little option but to close my eyes. Otherwise how could her voice carry me to those northern shores, to those stormy seas when I could see that I was still in the room?

And “Kondaira eder hura" (A beautiful tale/Plan B rec 2021) is above all a personal album, an enveloping and mysterious album to immerse in and listen to in a loop, and an unbeatable presentation for an artist called to do great things.” IBON ERRAZKIN

Press quotes:

“Verde Prato amazes in Basque and Spanish with her debut album. A melancholic-mysterious background and her poetic will, with words as rare in pop as 'face', 'importunate' or 'repose'." JENESAISPOP

“Between tradition and folklore, between modernity and electronics, or contemporary sounds and production methods. The strength of the voice, not only in the popular songbook, but also in contemporary music." SIGLO 21-RADIO3

“With their ability to convey serenity, tenderness, sensuality or drama, Ana Arsuaga's compositions amaze you not only because they rock you like lullabies do, but because there is something in their way of interpreting them that gives them the atavism of those traditional tunes that we archive in the brain as if they were instincts with which we were born". MONDOSONORO

“Verde Prato undresses the styles. Lourdes Iriondo's ‘Agurra’ with a drop of English folk and a cavernous reverb voice. The carnival ‘Galtza Haundi’, a piece that managed to lead to drama. His moving intoning, in which the syllables were barely distinguishable, seemed made to tell us and sing us secrets ”. An example of the good health enjoyed by less corseted Basque pop”. DIARIO VASCO