Juana Molina

Halo

Name: Halo
Brand: Juana Molina
Availability: InStock

Description

Juana Molina is a benevolent witch. Look at the cover of this new album: a bone is looking at us! And when a bone looks at us, it is the whole history of paleontology that gazes back at us. The bone is the sign of having been, it is the ultimate remainder, after the passage of vultures, hyenas, rodents and worms. Old folk legends held improperly buried bones responsible for the “luz mala” (the “bad glow,” known here as will-o'-the-wisp or foxfire), that strange halo floating above the ground and terrifying night travelers. But Juana Molina is a benevolent witch, and the bone in question is neither sinister nor threatening; it simply wants to reconcile us with its kind. It is at once mischievous and serious, ironic, imaginative and rather magical—exactly like Juana’s music. Halo is Juana Molina’s seventh album, and it marks a new stage in the adventurous path she has been tracing for many years. The twelve tracks on Halo are full of hypnotic rhythms that seem to draw their energy from immemorial rituals; timbral explorations and soundscapes in perpetual motion; enigmatic lyrics that often address witchcraft, premonitions and dreams, always used as metaphors expressing emotional states; melodies, of course, carried by voices that sometimes move away from words and meanings to be reduced to phonemes or onomatopoeia.

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