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Philadelphia Inquirer, Concert Preview >>
On last year's Un Dia ("One Day"), Juana Molina stretched and bent songs so that they seemed like extended electronic remixes right from the start. The Argentine loops layers of precisely articulated sounds - some electronic keyboards and drones but mostly acoustic guitars and handclaps or other hand percussion - and sets them behind her cooing and whispering vocals. While earlier albums such as 2003's enchanting Segundo built on folk and pop structures, Un Dia is something more elastic, abstract and challenging, and it's still beautiful. Live, Molina builds the songs from the ground up, creating loops and layering (and unlayering) melodies and patterns. It's songcraft as work-in-process. The experience is like witnessing an artist create a painting: Something magical gradually emerges before your eyes, or in this case, ears.
-- Steve Klinge 02/27/09 >> go there
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