With Amparanoia, Amparo Sanchez always produced music that fitted the musica mestiza genre,. Amparanoia is history though and Sanchez has decided to explore new musical horizons. The story behind that change of image is well worth mentioning: When Amparo was scheduled to perform at Canadian Festival International de Jazz in 2006, she had to make do with only her contrabass player and drummer as the other musicians had missed their plane in Paris. What could have been a flopped concert eventually turned into an intimate acoustic set. Not much later this concert would prove the turning point in Sanchez' career. Also present on that particular day was Joey Burns, one half of the duo Calexico. Burns was so impressed with what he heard that he promptly invited Amparo to visit their Wavelab Studios in Tucson, Arizona. In turn Amparo thanked Joey and John by taking the duo to her favorite studio in the world, the legendary (Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer...) EGREM studio in Havana. The result of all this is 'Tucson/Habana', an album in which Amparo one moment evokes the vibe of Buena Vista Social Club ('La Gata Bajo La Lluvia' a duet with Omara Portuondo), but the next experiments with what she calls Calexico's "frontera feeling". 'Tucson/Habana' is a beautiful, intimate album, but the question that remains to be answered is if her fans will follow her on this path…