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Juana Molina
Aug. 18th, 2006 08:15 amGreat gig last night at The Duke of York Cinem by Juana Molina.
Doors should have been open at 9pm into the auditorium but there was a twenty minute delay and it was causing a bunched up squashed-like-sardines length of a queue in the foyer. Not well organised methinks.
Anyway when we got in and finally got our seats, the support act, Fienne Regan, were really quite good in that somewhere-between Nick Drake and John Martyn territory of folk troubadorism,that is once again popular and in vogue (with artists like Joanna Newson,Vashti Bunyan,etc.).
After a short break where i extricated myself to get to the loos, the main attraction came on with her bank of three electronic keyboards and effects ; one being a sequencer and sampler,and her two guitars,one acoustic and one amped acoustic guitar. At first there was no sound to the guitar and she joked about it to the audience whilst the engineers quickly solved the problem.
Then came this wonderful extraordinary mesh of live electronics and acoustic Argentinian flavored post-folk melodies in which her voice multiplied into streams of choral polyphony,whilst she strummed intricate passages on her guitar. Her voice,sultry and latin hued,drew you into the melange of sounds swirling into the auditorium. Her breathy vocals react to an organic ever-shifting soundscape created by the layering effect of looped sounds topped on each other. It's gorgious, melodic, transcendent,hot-candlelit-bath music.
Most of the material was from her latest CD "Son" and a couple from "Tres Casas". (I have yet to purchase her first one "Segundo").
The audience ,and myself included (as well as GC), was totally rapped in awe,and the encore she got was well deserved. Naturally from the great feelings o joy in the hall she gave us one more final number to send us home.
Enthralled totally. A lovely evening despite the rain outside.
Check out her lovely website at http://www.juanamolina.com/ with mp3 downloads and videos as well.
Plus a nice gig review in The Guardian from Bush Hall at http://www.juanamolina.com/theguardian.htm
Doors should have been open at 9pm into the auditorium but there was a twenty minute delay and it was causing a bunched up squashed-like-sardines length of a queue in the foyer. Not well organised methinks.
Anyway when we got in and finally got our seats, the support act, Fienne Regan, were really quite good in that somewhere-between Nick Drake and John Martyn territory of folk troubadorism,that is once again popular and in vogue (with artists like Joanna Newson,Vashti Bunyan,etc.).
After a short break where i extricated myself to get to the loos, the main attraction came on with her bank of three electronic keyboards and effects ; one being a sequencer and sampler,and her two guitars,one acoustic and one amped acoustic guitar. At first there was no sound to the guitar and she joked about it to the audience whilst the engineers quickly solved the problem.
Then came this wonderful extraordinary mesh of live electronics and acoustic Argentinian flavored post-folk melodies in which her voice multiplied into streams of choral polyphony,whilst she strummed intricate passages on her guitar. Her voice,sultry and latin hued,drew you into the melange of sounds swirling into the auditorium. Her breathy vocals react to an organic ever-shifting soundscape created by the layering effect of looped sounds topped on each other. It's gorgious, melodic, transcendent,hot-candlelit-bath music.
Most of the material was from her latest CD "Son" and a couple from "Tres Casas". (I have yet to purchase her first one "Segundo").
The audience ,and myself included (as well as GC), was totally rapped in awe,and the encore she got was well deserved. Naturally from the great feelings o joy in the hall she gave us one more final number to send us home.
Enthralled totally. A lovely evening despite the rain outside.
Check out her lovely website at http://www.juanamolina.com/ with mp3 downloads and videos as well.
Plus a nice gig review in The Guardian from Bush Hall at http://www.juanamolina.com/theguardian.htm
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