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"Silver Sea Surfer School", a new CD by Inca Ore
Eva Saelens lives in Oakland, California, where she created her solo music project Inca Ore on her 25th birthday in 2004. Birthdays have been a theme since the project's conception. Self-invention, musical intercourse birthing prisms of self - this musician came into creativity suddenly, and has since been strongly inspired by the unimaginable geographies of self discovered through the act."Silver Sea Surfer School" is available in our online shop.
The incongruent substance of Inca Ore's recordings, released over the years by Weird Forest, Not Not Fun, 5RC, Collective Jyrk, Acuarela, Chocolate Monk and Ruralfaune, are distinctly hers because of the unpredictable dimensions of her musical personality and...
Acuarela Singles' club looks into 2010.
After the first two "items" of our singles club (The Wave Pictures and Agent Ribbons), the next vinyls will be exclusive 7"s by Spain and Tara Jane O´Neil, both to be released in early 2010. As usual the runs will be of 1000 copies, with previously unreleased songs,and there will be no CD edition in any case. Among the other participants we can mention Darren Hayman, Chris Brokaw, El Hijo (ex Migala), Nick Castro, Inca Ore, Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), The Drift, Bracken, Mount Eerie, Ben Wetherill, Barzin, or The Wowz.
Madrid-based Acuarela’s relationship with vinyl has always been rather intermittent. While the beginnings of the label back in 1993 were marked by the debuts on 7” of several Spanish acts such as Sr. Chinarro or a single by Scottish band BIS (“Transmiss...
Nacho Umbert & La Compañía: the first truly great Spanish album of 2010.
Native of Barcelona, Nacho Umbert was the lead singer and songwriter of the cult Spanish band Paperhouse, whose only album, remarkably titled “Adiós” and recorded and produced by Kramer in his Noise-NJ Estudios in 1995, is still considered one of the most unique records of our music scene. Now Nacho returns to the spotlight after almost 15 years of silence, with a totally different approach to music and a preference for chamber-pop, bossa-nova and acoustic structures, all giving shape to ten short stories featuring everyday heroes disguised as common people.
"Ay..." sounds like M. Ward after spending the whole summer between Barcelona and the Costa Brava, Beach Boys, Joao Gilberto, Bill Callahan, Red House Painters living and raving in Brazil, John Martyn, Herman Dune or Randy Newman. You can pre-o...
ZA!: Macumba o Muerte.
ZA! follow the steps of El Guincho (they also are from Barcelona and share friends and influences) as one of the most exciting new bands in Europe, never afraid of mixing tradition with adventure, localisms with tropicalisms. "Macumba o Muerte" features 9 songs recorded by Santi Garcia and mastered by Bob Weston (Shellac). A mixture of genres, sounds and speeds that co-exist in a perfectly smooth disorder: a traditional song from Siberia, sequenced improvisation, the recreation of an Arab market, guitar solos from Purgatory or the superposition of a hundred voices screaming at unison.
ZA! is a group of three guys and nine instruments. While their music coordinates include heavy distortion, thick bass rhythms and a taste for the “bright” side of death metal, their compositions vary from ancestral melodies to free-jazz, noise, psychedeli...
Mi & L'au: a quiet intensity.
Mira Anita Mathilda Romantschuk is an ethereal looking Finnish girl who sings like an elf, with a sharpened, chilly voice. She used to work as a model in Paris when she met Laurent Leclère, the composer and guitar player to whom Devendra Banhart dedicated “Gentle Soul”. “Imagine a glacier with ember inside”, Michael Gira said when he produced their first work with Young God Records. Four years later they have released “Good Morning Jokers”, a deep and demanding new musical experience that won´t leave anybody indifferent (like Nina Simone and Leonard Cohen living in a dark empty room).
Mi & L’Au stayed for a while in Paris until they decided to get lost in nature and lock themselves with their guitars in a hut, surrounded by snow, in the lost boreal moors. Cold, loneliness and music inspired such sonorities that the castrating marketi...
Debut album by Fran Gayo (ex Mus).
Fran Gayo has been Gijón's Film Festival programmer since 1997, writes articles in music and film magazines like Cahiers du Cinéma or Rockdelux, and is Público's newspaper official correspondent in Cannes and Venice Film Festivals. He used to combine this job with his work as a writer and musician in the band Mus until they split up in 2008. Now he comes back with a new identity, with a project under his own name and with his own voice, in a more intimate state of mind reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, Barzin, Serge Gainsbourg, Harry Nilsson or Randy Newman.
Las próximas cosechas [The next harvests] is the starting point of a renewed expression mode filled with clarity, candor and a renewed intimacy. The story of a second chance with which Fran Gayo has learned to look within to find the sing...
Panegírico de Guy Debord, Tomos I y II (Spanish only)
Guy Debord, pensador estratégico, aventurero, escritor y cineasta francés, nació en 1931 y se quitó la vida en 1994, cuando estaba a punto de cumplir 63 años, con un disparo en el corazón. En 1958, fundó la organización revolucionaria Internacional Situacionista y la revista del mismo nombre y carácter, que dirigió hasta su autodisolución en 1972. Entre sus libros destaca La sociedad del espectáculo (1967), 221 tesis dirigidas frontalmente contra el reinado autocrático de la demencia económica y las nuevas técnicas de gobierno que lo refuerzan de formas diversas (urbanismo, ideología, cultura, etc.).
Panegírico es un artefacto bicéfalo, un mosaico que guarda un enigma. En su Tomo primero (1989) encontramos unas memorias escritas a modo de autorretrato a la deriva y sin concesiones a lo que el buen tono de nuestra ...