Tanto Te He Querido

iiisa’s Tanto Te He Querido was released October 2, 2026, through Leaving Records, marking the solo electroacoustic debut of Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist isabel crespo pardo under that name. Its ten tracks combine jazz-inflected singing, electronic processing, piano, field recordings, and family conversations from Costa Rica, drawing on material collected over a decade. Recorded and produced during a Pioneer Works residency, while touring, and in loved ones’ homes, the album treats its archive as something that can continually change rather than a fixed record of the past. The title translates as “So Much I’ve Loved You,” framing an intimate exploration of memory, mortality, intergenerational trauma, and hope in which personal experience remains inseparable from relationships with others.

“Pasa y Pasará” places solitary piano recordings alongside a conversation involving iiisa, their mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, bringing four generations into the same shifting soundscape. “Tiendo a Desaparecer” turns the voice into a fragile rhythmic instrument, with interrupted phrases and restrained screams moving against a persistent heartbeat-like pulse. “Aún Siento la Sombra” takes a more confrontational approach: electronically harmonized vocals push into distortion amid erratic percussion, recordings of protests in Mexico, and a release ritual in Costa Rica. These contrasts give the album its emotional range, moving between tenderness and resistance without separating either from its intimate source material. Conceived as a cumulative listening experience, the record invites attention to how voices, places, and memories overlap rather than resolving them into a single, straightforward story.