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Download “Una Dia Otra Noche” | Allá is playing Joe’s Pub tomorrow, the 8th of June, and I’m looking forward to a six-piece treatment of the band’s polished on-record sound. From that performance I hope to conclude whether or not the Os Mutantes comparisons are fit, since from solely listening to the record, the similarity isn’t apparent to me at all; if anything, in Lupe Martinez’s voice I hear textual rhythms similar to that in older Juana Molina songs. An article in the Chicago Reader asserts:
Any Os Mutantes comparisons are well deserved—both groups get real far-out but still come off tropical-drink breezy—but Allá’s palette might be even broader, including bits of everything from Krautrock to hip-hop.
An earlier paragraph does a better job, read it after the jump:
If I hadn’t already got Man Man tickets for tomorrow, I’d be certain to go see Christine Fellows at Music Hall of Williamsburg. I’m hoping the city will lure the Canadian at another time. The thickly-layered songs from her 2007’s Nevertheless (especially the opening “Let Us Have Done With The Umbrella Of Our Contagion”) and the rich classical/theatrical roots in her music spell, “We make for a great live show, come see us”.
I didn’t get around to the album when it first came out, or else my November would’ve been that much warmer. Joanna Newsom comparisons are inevitable, but Christine definitely leans towards the more traditional. The two voices roam the same woods, but in the end they leave different impressions. After all, one is an elf and the other simply can’t pass for one. A difference of cosmos.
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Aqua: Love TEEN. Man they can sing. Cool. Different.
Suraj Joshee: Sarahana, Loved the video. You captured the simple raw essence of the music and band really really...
