Bye Bye Bird

Description

After a decade of concerts under the name Mariachi, Nina Garcia has finally unveiled her unique approach in *Bye Bye Bird*, her first album under her own name. *Bye Bye Bird* is her second solo album. Unpretentious and understated, the album is a captivating blend of chiaroscuro, melodies, and raw emotions. Nina Garcia's album takes on a documentary-like quality, adopting a simple approach to gesture and sound recording. The eight tracks that make up this collection explore a moment, a space, a mechanism, an intention, or a way of doing things. As a common thread through almost all these pieces (all but one, the last), Nina Garcia explores a new technique. To her stripped-down instrumentation (a guitar, a pedal, and an amp), she adds an electromagnetic microphone which, held in hand, allows her to listen to the exact areas where the string's vibration creates a sound amidst vast spaces of silence. The guitar is unplugged, and the body/instrument relationship takes on a new dimension. Since 2015, Nina Garcia has been researching and creating around the electric guitar, halfway between improvised music and noise.