“Pajarita De Papel” is built around a Federico García Lorca poem, sung in Spanish by Belgian-Brazilian vocalist Helena Casella over Myrddin De Cauter’s flamenco guitar, with Stijn Kuppens on cello and Stefan Bracaval on flute. The track is the second single from Vol. 1: El Sueño Se Deshizo Para Siempre, released on 21 November 2025 via Zephyrus Records by Sonetos del Amor Oscuro.

The project focuses on Lorca’s Granada and the cycle known as Sonetos del Amor Oscuro, written shortly before the poet was killed in 1936. As the group’s own notes describe it: “He wrung, pushed and vibrated words like tectonic plates, transforming plains into poetic mountain landscapes. He then covered them with a Moorish carpet of snow crystals and mirrored them in the dark hair locks of a gypsy from Albaicín, who in a gold and silver forged voice lulled her little sister to sleep with a soothing Nana”.

Casella works from a background in soul, R&B, Brazilian music and contemporary jazz. She comes from a musical family with deep ties to Brazil, and that history sits underneath how she approaches Lorca’s Spanish. De Cauter composed the music for the album and took on artistic production; he plays flamenco guitar and also works in jazz and classical contexts, with his playing described in the notes as “meditative, emotionally direct, rhythmically complex”. Kuppens works in what he calls non-classical cello, using the instrument beyond standard classical roles while keeping that training present. Bracaval trained at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp before teaching himself jazz flute; he has worked with Charles Loos, Bert Joris and the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, and leads his own quartet.

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