sábado, novembro 11, 2006

Good news for people who love music


Juana Molina editou à poucos meses um álbum que me encantou assim que o ouvi pela primeira vez e que me continua a encartar cada vez que o oiço. A sua doce voz e todos os pequenos sons que coabitam em cada música são ecos de uma harmonia e pureza indescritíveis.

Assim, a grande notícia é que Juana vai estar em Portugal dia 8 de dezembro para um concerto no renovado Theatro em Braga. Eu não sei como vou fazer...

Ps: o video que coloco é uma pequena nota biográfica da Juana Molina, abaixo transcrevo um excerto do que ela apresenta no seu myspace.



When I started to write the songs for this record Son, a new element that may have been hidden for a long time appeared; the randomness of the combination of sounds in nature. Each bird has a particular singing; nevertheless this singing is always different. It is not a pattern; its a drawing, a sound and a mode, only a few elements that each bird combines in a new way each time. In the same way, sometimes I chose to sing a melodic drawing I develop for the song. Verses are alike, but never the same (rios seco, no seas antipática) other times I chose to sing a repetitive melody. What changes here and moves randomly is, for example, a keyboard. It is like overlapping two different loops, with no synchronicity at all. One very rhythmic and the other one more lose. When you play both, at the same time, the loose loop will provoke a changing harmony, because their beats will never be in the same place. This causes a moving harmony. During the tours, I also applied my new ideas to the old songs, that's why, when I got back home, I recorded the first thing that came to mind using these new ideas. In October, when I sat down to put all I had for the record together I had the huge and pleasant surprise that I almost had the record done. Son is a step forward on the same path I started with Segundo and followed with Tres Cosas.