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Juana Molina's sound is so precious and rare that tampering with the formula is akin to tearing down a singular example of great architecture, or witnessing the extinction of a rare and beautiful animal. Fortunately, Un Dia is immediately recognizable as a Juana Molina album. Yes, there are slight differences between this and her previous work, but fortunately, she's still retained most of what made her special in the past. In place are the gentle but propulsive vocal-based rhythms, the airy feel to the proceedings, and the occasional chirping polyharmonies. Also present (and appreciated) is the fine balance between organic instruments (wood, metal) and post-production processing (delays, distortion) that makes her records sound as experimental as Björk's but much more inviting. Differences appear, however, in the hypnotic rhythm that powers several songs with a driving energy. If her breakout albums, 2000's Segundo and 2002's Tres Cosas, were so diaphanous that they threatened to dematerialize altogether, Un Dia makes rhythm a central proposition, sometimes so machine-like that she approaches techno (albeit, techno from the standpoint of an Argentinean obsessed with native instruments).
Un Día is Juana Molina's fifth album, in a career dedicated to following a most inspired and inspirational muse. It's twelve years on from her debut, Rara and, if that album perhaps struggled at first to find an audience, then that audience has grown surely and strongly with the albums that have followed. But it's not [...]
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Artist: Juana Molina Album: Un Dia File Under: Folktronica, World Music Recommended if You Like: Beth Orton, Four Tet, David Byrne Featured Track: Un Dia Argentinean singer/songwriter, Juana Molina, is an amazing interpreter of sound. I discovered her by chance many years ago at Bimbos, opening for a band I can't even remember now because her performance was so compelling and mesmerizing I've ...
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Juana Molina is an former television actress from Argentina with an unlikely passion for making a kind of cut and paste folk-tinged electronica. Molina's latest album for Domino comprises eight lengthy, carefully assembled pieces with a focus on layered grooves..
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I suggest giving yourself some time and space to take this one in. Being in an altered state might help, although this song, if you open yourself to it, might help you achieve one. A long-time Fingertips favorite, Molina returns with a crazy, churning, ecstatic daze of a song. The Argentinian former sitcom star has, as a musician, pioneered an alluring if evasive sort of folktronica, w...
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For some late night oddness or early morning magic, this one gets under my skin. I don't know what to say about her. She has a lovely and disarming voice and has created a very ethereal sound that does not really remind me of anything else, wholly original. This track in particular lures you into the soundscape with an exotic mantra. It has a wonderful microcosmic and intimate feel while still ...
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I have no idea who this is or what she is saying, and it doesn't matter....
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Next month, Argentinian vocalist, songwriter (aka spellcaster) Juana Molina's releasing her fifth album in a dozen years Un Día . She recorded at her place outside Buenos Aires, singing and playing everything, minus some guitar work by Gareth Dickson from Vashti Bunyon's band. The looping, loping, super rhythmic, horn-laced title track (or trek), translated "one day," serves as the album's sta..
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I've been a big fan of former Argentinean comedian Juana Molina for a couple of years now so it's good to see her return with a new album Un Día and gigs in Dublin on October 9th and Cork on the 11th. She was brilliant last year in Crawdaddy and last month at the Picnic. [...]
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Un Día is Juana Molina's fifth album, in a career dedicated to following a most inspired and inspirational muse. It's twelve years on from her debut, Rara and, if that album perhaps struggled at first to find an audience, then that audience has grown surely and strongly with the albums that have followed. But it's not [...]
More >
Artist: Juana Molina Album: Un Dia File Under: Folktronica, World Music Recommended if You Like: Beth Orton, Four Tet, David Byrne Featured Track: Un Dia Argentinean singer/songwriter, Juana Molina, is an amazing interpreter of sound. I discovered her by chance many years ago at Bimbos, opening for a band I can't even remember now because her performance was so compelling and mesmerizing I've ...
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People of the good auditory world! We come before you, to present LA ROCOLA #6, that's right! The sixth playlist of Club Fonograma and let me tell you, this one is on fire. During October we had a lot more access to music, our daily visits tripled! and hopefully you are enjoying our convenient shorter reviews, and of course, my essays on some albums where I just can't handle myself. Since the mo
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Juana Molina is an former television actress from Argentina with an unlikely passion for making a kind of cut and paste folk-tinged electronica. Molina's latest album for Domino comprises eight lengthy, carefully assembled pieces with a focus on layered grooves..
More >
I suggest giving yourself some time and space to take this one in. Being in an altered state might help, although this song, if you open yourself to it, might help you achieve one. A long-time Fingertips favorite, Molina returns with a crazy, churning, ecstatic daze of a song. The Argentinian former sitcom star has, as a musician, pioneered an alluring if evasive sort of folktronica, w...
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