Titanic - "La Dueña"

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Photo by Jasmine Salvino

Titanic is the collaborative band of Mexico City based composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Hector Tosta and composer/cellist/singer Mabe Fratti. The duo's latest single, "La Dueña," is a darkly cinematic song that is heartbreakingly intense. It's so close to being the perfect song to play over the end credits of a typical movie, but Titanic play everything just slightly out of the mainstream. It's still perfect to close out a film, but one more along the lines of a Robert Rodriguez film than Steven Spielberg. It's also simply a great song that lands somewhere within the type of experimental jazz that we sometimes bring you, but a little more classical than typical. 

Hector Tosta says of his band's latest single:

"I remember that we were in Austria waiting backstage to do a show as an opener for Ben Howard. I was playing the guitar just to warm up for the show but noodling around and fell in love with a very simple progression of chords. A progression that I have played a million times and that you can find in a million songs. I don't know why but in that particular time I fell in love with it. Then, when we were on the plane going back to México, I started to write in my notebook a lot of options of a heartbroken elegant and classic old lady that felt betrayed by love. In that year I was going very often to a karaoke bar in Mexico called el Timon de Cortez and I just realised how good it feels to sing a ballad with all your heart."

You can watch the video for "La Dueña" below. Hagen is due out September 5 on Unheard of Hope, and is available for pre-order through Bandcamp. For more on Titanic, check out the artist on Instagram. Upcoming tour dates are below the video.


08/30 - Wiltshire, UK - End of the Road Festival

09/02 - Berlin, DE - Kantine am Berghain

09/03 - Jena, DE - Trafo

09/04 - Prague, CZ - Studio Hrdinů

09/06 - Düdingen, CH - Bad Bonn Kilbi

09/08 - Brussels, BE - Botanique Witloof Bar

09/09 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso (Upper Floor Stage)

09/11 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City *

09/12 - Manchester, UK - Albert Hall *

09/13 - Manchester, UK - Albert Hall *

09/16 - Lille, FR - L’Aéronef ^

09/18 - Hamburg, DE - Reeperbahn Festival

10/12 - Paris, FR - Lafayette Anticipations

10/21 - Bristol, UK - Lantern Hall

10/22 - Manchester, UK - The White Hotel

10/23 - Glasgow, UK - The Rum Shack

10/29 - London, UK - Institute of Contemporary Arts

10/31 - Torino, IT - Club to Club Festival


* w/ Black Country, New Road 

^ w/ Caroline

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