Release
Nit a Gandia
- Release date
- 01/10/2025
- Type
- Single
- Duration
- 4 min 30 sec
- Genre
- DanceNu Disco
- Language
- Valencian
About this release
I'd just come off a whole album of ballads and my body was asking for the opposite: a song to dance to. And if I was going to let loose, I wanted to do it in my own language and my own place. That's how this Valencian nu-disco came out, about a summer night in Gandia, the city I call home.
The lyrics move through places that really exist: the Serpis running down to the sea, the breeze off La Safor, the Grau, the smell of orange blossom. But it isn't a tourist postcard. It's one specific night, with someone whose hand you take at the water's edge, and a city that at that hour blurs into that person. It's never quite clear whether I'm singing to her or to the place, and I like it that way.
Under the dancing there's one small thing that to me is the heart of the song: turning fear into melody, letting the night and the company take the fright off you. The sound is bright and made for moving, but I didn't want it to be only a party. Under the shine there's someone who, for one night, stops feeling sad.
The lyrics move through places that really exist: the Serpis running down to the sea, the breeze off La Safor, the Grau, the smell of orange blossom. But it isn't a tourist postcard. It's one specific night, with someone whose hand you take at the water's edge, and a city that at that hour blurs into that person. It's never quite clear whether I'm singing to her or to the place, and I like it that way.
Under the dancing there's one small thing that to me is the heart of the song: turning fear into melody, letting the night and the company take the fright off you. The sound is bright and made for moving, but I didn't want it to be only a party. Under the shine there's someone who, for one night, stops feeling sad.
Song notes
It's the first time in the project that I fully let go with a dance beat, and it's no accident that I did it singing in Valencian. There are things that only come out in my own language. A night out in Gandia was one of them.
I played on purpose with the mix-up between the city and the person. When I say it lights up my voice or that I hand over my soul, it works for someone and it works for the place. Gandia isn't scenery here, it's almost another character, with its streets, its harbour and its river running down to the sea. I put in the real names from the area without hesitating. I wanted anyone from here to recognise home, and anyone who isn't to picture it.
And even though it sounds like a celebration, there's a thread underneath: someone who arrives still spooked and, through dancing and the sea, slowly lets it go. That's why I made it bright but with some body. You can dance to it, of course, but if you pay attention you also notice that small relief of turning sadness into movement.
I played on purpose with the mix-up between the city and the person. When I say it lights up my voice or that I hand over my soul, it works for someone and it works for the place. Gandia isn't scenery here, it's almost another character, with its streets, its harbour and its river running down to the sea. I put in the real names from the area without hesitating. I wanted anyone from here to recognise home, and anyone who isn't to picture it.
And even though it sounds like a celebration, there's a thread underneath: someone who arrives still spooked and, through dancing and the sea, slowly lets it go. That's why I made it bright but with some body. You can dance to it, of course, but if you pay attention you also notice that small relief of turning sadness into movement.
Lyrics
Uh-uh-uh
Gandia i tu
Quan cau la nit damunt Gandia i la mar
Els fanals dibuixen camins de sal
Hui és la primera nit, i l'ànima ja em crema
I amb tu arran de mar tot es desperta
La brisa de La Safor ens crida
El Serpis baixa cap a la mar
Si em dones la mà, se'n va l'espant
I el temps a poc a poc es para
Gandia, m'encén la veu
El meu cantar naix del teu blau
Balla amb mi, no mires arrere
Esta nit el temps va més lent amb tu ací
Gandia, pintes el cel
I jo t'entregue l'ànima sencera
Oh-oh, nit a Gandia i estima
I tu em fas volar
Llum als carrers i flor de taronger
El Grau que brilla damunt l'arena
Tu em mires amb tendresa i jo sense pena
Faig de l'espant melodia
La brisa de La Safor ens guia
Els passos marquen el ritme
Si em dones la mà, tot va en calma
I l'aire es fa més suau
Gandia, m'encén la veu
El meu cantar naix del teu blau
Balla amb mi, no mires arrere
Esta nit el temps va més lent amb tu ací
Gandia, pintes el cel
I jo t'entregue l'ànima sencera
Uh-uh, nit a Gandia i estima
I tu em fas volar
Gandia, m'encén la veu
El meu cantar naix del teu blau
Balla amb mi, no mires arrere
Esta nit el temps va més lent amb tu ací
Gandia, pintes el cel
I jo t'entregue l'ànima sencera
Oh-oh, nit a Gandia i estima
I tu em fas volar
I tu em fas volar
Em fas volar
(Volar)
Track list
Credits
- Main artist:
- Phoenix Vega
- Composed by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona
- Lyrics by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona
- Produced by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona
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