Nuestra casa a la izquierda del tiempo

Nuestra casa a la izquierda del tiempo
Compilation album by La Oreja de Van Gogh
Released	October 20, 2009
Recorded	Studios Iz (Guipuzkoa, Spain) Red Led Studio (Madrid, Spain) Studio 2 of Slovak National Radio (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Genre	Pop, Pop rock, Acoustic
Length	47:27
Language	Spanish Euskera
Label	Sony Music
Producer	Nigel Walker La Oreja de Van Gogh
La Oreja de Van Gogh chronology
A las cinco en el Astoria (2008) Nuestra casa a la izquierda del tiempo (2009) Cometas por el cielo (2011)
Singles from A las cinco en el Astoria
"Cuéntame al oído (2009)" Released: September 14, 2009 "Puedes contar conmigo (2009)" Released: February 17, 2010

Nuestra casa a la izquierda del tiempo (Our home on the left side of time) is a compilation album by La Oreja de Van Gogh. It was released on October 20, 2009, only one year after the release of the band's previous recording, A las cinco en el Astoria. It contains new versions of some of the band's biggest hits from its previous five albums, including tracks originally sung by former band-member Amaia Montero. All songs were re-recorded by the group to include Leire Martínez, who had recently been introduced as the band's new singer. The Bratislava Symphony Orchestra provided further musical accompaniment, giving a more acoustic and orchestral feel to the original songs.

The album also included the song "Loa Loa" ("Sleep, Sleep"), a traditional lullaby in Basque performed a capella. It is the only track in the album that had never been released before by La Oreja de Van Gogh. Despite this and the fact that all tracks were recorded for the album in a studio, Nuestra casa a la izquierda del tiempo is not considered a studio album. Instead, the band usually refers to it as a "compilation album in which the whole group could experiment and play with the songs", mostly producing "acoustic versions" of the songs that they were "more confident with".^[1]

Tracks

#	Title	Length
01.	"París" (Paris) • Music and Lyrics: Amaia Montero, Xabi San Martín, Pablo Benegas, Haritz Garde and Álvaro Fuentes	4:32
02.	"Cuéntame al oído" (Tell me in my ear) • Music and Lyrics: Amaia Montero, Xabi San Martín, Pablo Benegas, Haritz Garde and Álvaro Fuentes	4:14
03.	"El último vals" (The last waltz) • Music: Xabi San Martín • Lyric: Pablo Benegas	3:33
04.	"La playa" (The beach) • Music and Lyrics: Amaia Montero, Xabi San Martín, Pablo Benegas, Haritz Garde and Álvaro Fuentes	4:17
05.	"Rosas" (Roses) • Music and Lyrics: Amaia Montero, Xabi San Martín, Pablo Benegas, Haritz Garde and Álvaro Fuentes	4:22
06.	"20 de enero" (20th of January) • Music and Lyrics: Amaia Montero, Xabi San Martín, Pablo Benegas, Haritz Garde and Álvaro Fuentes	4:08
07.	"Jueves" (Thursday) • Music and lyric: Xabi San Martín	4:24
08.	"Loa Loa" (Sleep, Sleep) • Traditional song	1:09
09.	"Muñeca de trapo" (Rag doll) • Music: Amaia Montero and Xabi San Martín • Lyric: Pablo Benegas	4:03
10.	"Soledad" (Loneliness) • Music and Lyrics: Amaia Montero, Xabi San Martín, Pablo Benegas, Haritz Garde and Álvaro Fuentes	4:04
11.	"Deseos de cosas imposibles" (Wishes of Impossible Things) • Music and Lyrics: Amaia Montero, Xabi San Martín, Pablo Benegas, Haritz Garde and Álvaro Fuentes	4:07
12.	"Puedes contar conmigo" (You can count on me) • Music and Lyrics: Amaia Montero, Xabi San Martín, Pablo Benegas, Haritz Garde and Álvaro Fuentes	4:27

References

1. "'La Oreja de Van Gogh' offers some of its hits in acoustic and accompanied by an orchestra" (in Spanish). RTVE.