Juana Molina - Un Día [2008]

Imagine if Tina Fey quit comedy and sang electronics-based folk songs. That's the path Juana Molina took more than 10 years ago in her native Argentina, leaving her job as a TV comedian to pursue experimental folk. Her fifth disc is her most adventurous, combining avant-garde vocals with the atmospherics of Portishead and My Bloody Valentine. With looped guitar, hypnotic percussion and a bit of feedback, the title track sounds like two songs playing at once. The centerpiece is a trio that includes "Los Hongos de Marosa," built on lopsided harmonies, coiling keyboards and Middle Eastern textures. But like Brian Wilson or Kevin Shields, Molina pulls off the most out-there material with melodies nearly as accessible as conventional pop.

Review : Rolling Stone

Un Día [2008]

No es tan cierto : álbum "3 Cosas"

Bonobo - Dial 'm' for Monkey [2003]

Simon Green aka Bonobo is back with nine perfectly formed tracks on a perfectly formed album. No huge, bloated, over-conceptualised rottage for the monkey man. He gets in, does what he has to do, gets out.

From the opener, "Noctuary," with it’s creepy stoned-Hammer feel, through the headnod sitar-funk of "Flutter," on into the Rhodes-meets-Gamelan of "D Song," the first third of the record sets out the tone for what is to follow – all beautfiully melodic and perfectly assembled but with enough of a creeping undertow to stop the music becoming empty or saccharine. "Change Down" is all double bass folk and cut-up drums, "Wayward Bob" is a devilish waltz, while single "Pick Up" is a straight funk ‘n’ flute throw down. "Something For Windy"sounds like a dub of a postman on his rounds, "Nothing Owed" is epic pastoralia, while "Light Pattern" rounds things off with what sounds like the theme to the best TV programme never made.

With all instruments played, sampled and sequenced by Green’s own fair hand, there is a consistency here, both within the tunes and across the record that crate diggers can only dream of. There is real development, the building of moods and feelings, a genuine attempt to make great music which is incidentally computer music. He may make a monkey of himself, but he’s no musical mug…

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Dial 'm' for Monkey [2003]

Bonobo - Noctuary

Verbose - Wonder [2007]

Tracklist :

1. Introvert
2. Turn Left Turn Right
3. In Your Disregard
4. The People Below Unawares
5. Persona Radar
6. Invisible Ink
7. Creta Kanos Long Story
8. The Dividing Line
9. The Sky Painted Over
10. Subterfuge
11. Afterglow
12. The Distance Between Us

Descarga : Wonder [2007]