Natalia Mateo - Heart of Darkness (2015)

The 31 year-old vocalist Natalia Mateo is a wanderer between the worlds - musically and in real life. Born in Poland, raised in Austria and now living in Germany, she has absorbed the most varied of impressions and cultures into her being. She draws from the Slavic ballad tradition, from American jazz and singer-songwriters ranging from Joni Mitchell to Amy Macdonald, and from contemporary pop and rock music, covering Lou Reed, Tom Waits and Lady Gaga. Mateo s music is a highly personal declaration of love to tradition and modernity, to familiarity on the one hand and on the other to the wanderlust throbbing in her heart and head, to the beauty of emotional attachment, of deepest interpersonal relationships and the independence we live while in them. Natalia Mateo is as yet still an insider tip, but now with her ACT debut she presents her captivating art to a broader audience.

Tracklist:

01. The Windmills of Your Mind
02. Tonight I'll Sleep in Space
03. Take a Walk On the Wild Side
04. Trudno
05. Inferno
06. Somebody Is Watching Me
07. I Put a Spell On You
08. Strange Fruit
09. Paparazzi
10. Chocolate Jesus
11. Solitudo Diaboli
12. Canto 1
13. Turtle Dove
14. Blue

Personnel:

Natalia Mateo / vocals
Gregor Lener / trumpet & effects
Simon Grote / piano
Dany Ahmad / guitars
Christopher Bolte / bass
Fabian Ristau / drums & percussion

Guest:
Tobias Christl / vocals on 02 & 12