Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Ramon Stagnaro (guitar, acoustic guitar, cuatro); Javier Lim¢n (guitar, flamenco guitar); James Bryan (guitar, programming, keyboard programming); Vincent Henry (guitar); Matthew Scannell (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); James Freebarin-Smith, Alex Grant (cello); Julieta Venegas (accordion); Tyler Armes (piano); Lester Mendez (keyboards, percussion, programming); Salaam Remi (keyboards); Marc Rogers (double bass); Roger Travassos, Rafael Padilla (percussion). | | Recording information: Cubejam, Miami; Hit Factory, Miami, FL; Orange Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Rumblecone Studios; Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, CA. | | Editor: Andres Bermudez. | | Photographers: Mark Liddell; Alejandro Nunez. | | Arrangers: Nick Banns; Nick Barnes; James Bryan ; Julieta Venegas; Lester Mendez; Nelly Furtado. | | Cooling her heels while crafting a follow-up to her hot dance makeover LOOSE, Nelly Furtado released MI PLAN, her first full-length Spanish album, in the fall of 2009. As it turns out, MI PLAN comes much closer to Furtado's previous music than LOOSE, but she's retained many lessons from her time with Timbaland, giving this a much stronger rhythmic foundation than her first two albums which this otherwise resembles in sound and structure. Nelly still sounds vaguely like a modern hippie, fusing together cultures with a hazily spiritual undertow, something that works well on an album like this, which is pitched at a Latin audience but never feels like a niche throwaway by a superstar. Instead, it's assured and cohesive, holding together better than her muddled sophomore effort FOLKLORE but having a similar range, bouncing elegantly from barbed alt-rock guitars to electro synths to grand, gorgeous ballads. In fact, it says quite a bit about Nelly Furtado's ambitions and skill when her Spanish detour winds up being arguably her strongest album yet. |
Producer: James Bryan; Julieta Venegas; Lester Mendez; Nelly Furtado; Brian West |
Engineer: Ryan Evans; Franklin Emmanuel Socorro; Julian Vasquez Jr; James Bryan; Joel Numa; Lester Mendez; Allan Leschhorn; Carlos Alvarez; Jorge Vivo |
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