After years singing traditional jazz repertoire, Mónica Matabuena releases her debut album “MATABUENAPURA”, a set of her own compositions and arrangements with an aesthetic inspired by contemporary jazz. With influences that move from Ben Wendel to Maria Joao, she applies the parameters of composition and musical assimilation of jazz from this era to her own works.

With a quartet-based formation, the compositions integrate modal harmonic sonorities over pleasant melodies and sweet-sounding lyrics, all of them in Spanish; very fluid grooves and tense polyrhythms mix with apparent ease thanks to the cohesion of the band and the composer's arranging work.