Mi Plan

Performer: Nelly Furtado
Engineer: Ryan Evans; Franklin Emmanuel Socorro; Julian Vasquez Jr; James Bryan; Joel Numa; Lester Mendez; Allan Leschhorn; Carlos Alvarez; Jorge Vivo
Producer: James Bryan; Julieta Venegas; Lester Mendez; Nelly Furtado; Brian West
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Ramon Stagnaro (guitar, acoustic guitar, cuatro); Javier Lim�n (guitar, flamenco guitar); James Bryan (guitar, programming, keyboard programming); Vincent Henry (guitar); Matthew Scannell (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); James Freebarin-Smith, Alex Grant (cello); Julieta Venegas (accordion); Tyler Armes (piano); Lester Mendez (keyboards, percussion, programming); Salaam Remi (keyboards); Marc Rogers (double bass); Roger Travassos, Rafael Padilla (percussion). Recording information: Cubejam, Miami; Hit Factory, Miami, FL; Orange Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Rumblecone Studios; Westlake Audio, Los Angeles, CA. Editor: Andres Bermudez. Photographers: Mark Liddell; Alejandro Nunez. Arrangers: Nick Banns; Nick Barnes; James Bryan ; Julieta Venegas; Lester Mendez; Nelly Furtado. Cooling her heels while crafting a follow-up to her hot dance makeover LOOSE, Nelly Furtado released MI PLAN, her first full-length Spanish album, in the fall of 2009. As it turns out, MI PLAN comes much closer to Furtado's previous music than LOOSE, but she's retained many lessons from her time with Timbaland, giving this a much stronger rhythmic foundation than her first two albums which this otherwise resembles in sound and structure. Nelly still sounds vaguely like a modern hippie, fusing together cultures with a hazily spiritual undertow, something that works well on an album like this, which is pitched at a Latin audience but never feels like a niche throwaway by a superstar. Instead, it's assured and cohesive, holding together better than her muddled sophomore effort FOLKLORE but having a similar range, bouncing elegantly from barbed alt-rock guitars to electro synths to grand, gorgeous ballads. In fact, it says quite a bit about Nelly Furtado's ambitions and skill when her Spanish detour winds up being arguably her strongest album yet.

Billboard (p.28) - "With simple, straightforward songs that appeal to melodic sensibilities rather than rhythmic contraptions, the set is a mix of vulnerability and earnestness."

Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado emerged seemingly from out of nowhere with her debut album WHOA NELLY in 2000, sporting a genre-defying sound and winsome tone. Her work incorporates pop hooks, hip-hop derived rhythms, R&B production touches, and some left-field sonic weirdness, combining a modern, urban-oriented approach with occasional exotic rhythmic accents reflecting her Portuguese roots. One of the most striking facets of Furtado's music is her unusual lyrics, which employ off-kilter imagery and a quirky sense of language. In 2006, Furtado changed her relatively wholesome image by releasing her third album, LOOSE, which cast her, lyrically and stylistically, as a sexy femme fatale.

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