There is something tremendously metaphorical in the fact that, Alex Ferreira's new album, "TANDA" includes lyrics of his mother dictating the recipe for cooking lentils and tomato sauce. The new album is a patient album, whose recording was turned in to the music not the clock. The highly-anticipated album is released today and available on all digital platforms.

Ferreira is both a singer-songwriter and cantautor, an heir to the distinct legacies that those inexactly translated words imply. For many years the promising artist lived in Madrid and was part of the most prestigious circle of Spanish songwriters that shaped his songwriting style and who currently resides in Mexico City.

Alex Ferreira titled his fifth studio album, "TANDA" not because of the meaning of the word, but for its percussive sound: two syllables that echo hands on a drum, the cha-ka of seeds shaking in a gourd, the casual slap of bare feet on the floor, or the familiar call of a name from another room in the house.

TANDA, brings his songs to a subconscious identity of his early childhood hearing merengue and bachata to the surface.

Inadvertently he guides us throughout his new album by giving us a look inside his storytelling. Ferreira is a universal troubadour, a singer-songwriter who creates his own boundaries as a songwriter, a singer who blurs musical borders and traditions.

Alex Ferreira's new album, "TANDA" is now available on all DSPs. Listen to the album here and check out our interview in collaboration with Faranduleo 411 below.