Title:
Erase Una Vez
Label:
Sychronos
Released:
27th March
A
new E.P. from Mexican producer Armando O. Vazquez entitled with the
immortal fairytale opening line ‘once upon a time’. Now this is
completely fresh to me and I had no idea what to expect especially as
pigeon-holing into genres isn’t always black and white.
The
first piece ‘El Tren de la Psique’ roughly translated ‘The
Train of the Psyche’ is a haunting piece that slowly unfurls with
reverb fx on the percussion and takes a few minutes to reach the peak
of the track and drops back again shortly after.
Whilst in comparison the following number ‘Organica’, although still a very downtempo piece, has a touch more drive to the
beat paired alongside sweeping synths and flashes of harmonica.
The
next piece ‘Modulador’ leans slightly towards space ambient to
start. Well space ambient that’s been heavily filtered until the
percussion comes in and the track morphs into something else. In fact
this tracks is almost like three in one as the final section is
introduced by a somewhat stuttering crescendo. This is a very unique
approach to this track and I can’t decide whether I like it or not.
The final piece is the Chlorophil re-mix of ‘El Otro Lado’ which
begins with a soothing ambient intro that leads to choral voices and
dubbed out piano. Add some bird song, fuzzy bass and distorted
oriental wind instrument and you get the picture. Now although this track didn't hit me instantly the sense of calm began to grow on me as I listened through the piece.
Reviewed
by Woodzee
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