Naty Giachino puts out stirring new single ‘Patti & Fred’
The up-and-coming London-based musician releases brand new track after a year already punctuated with new material.
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Patti & Fred is the new single from Uruguayan-British songwriter Naty Giachino, now based in London, but with an already impressive repertoire.
This year alone, she toured Japan, self-released a debut album — Just a Drummer — and collaborated with Japanese pop producer Katsuharu Koura (of Misty Eyes) on a remix of her song L.A. Sands. She’s also toured extensively with other musicians around the world, including Guy Pratt, who, among other accomplishments, played on Madonna’s Like a Prayer and joined Pink Floyd from their Momentary Lapse of Reason tour onward.
Patti & Fred, then, is suitably rendered for a musician like Giachino. Her voice — fragile and deliciously Uruguayan — weaves alongside a simple acoustic melody, allowing those verses to quite rightly take the spotlight. It actually, strangely, reminds me of a lot of ABBA’s sparser compositions; Giachino’s vocals — like Anni-Frid’s and Agnetha’s — have a rich pathos to them. There’s a dreamlike quality; pain and warmth, before a heartbreaking coda set to classical guitar.
In this one track, Giachino exhibits a keen understanding of the ballad arrangement, the power it can wield, and the mature penmanship of a musician far beyond her age.
Patti & Fred is out now.