By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone

Cover art by Zonagirante Studio 

November closes with some very interesting releases from the most independent platform on the planet: Bandcamp. Here, anyone can listen before buying, and bands and artists have direct contact with their audience (as we've mentioned several times before). So, let's take a look at four new albums from Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil, with influences from rock, electronica, folk, and a host of other sonic elements that are part of the new music of the first quarter of this century.

Juana Molina – I exhale 

A genius has landed on our page with a compilation of 4 songs that we should adopt immediately.

All the songs presented here, written and arranged by Juana Molina, They have been created for several years now. The first three, Second star of light, Winter y Vague lakes They were originally recorded and mixed between 2015 and 2016 by Juana Molina at her home and by Eduardo Bergallo at Sonic Ranch (Texas) and Revolver (Buenos Aires). This material is complemented by Hope, one of the many unfinished demos recorded in 2015 by Molina at his home and recovered and reconstructed for this publication earlier this year.

This EP puts this Argentinian artist back in the spotlight., who shines through his constant experimentation, the unexpected manipulation of his instruments, and the unconventional mixes he establishes in the final results, which is expressed in a strange and happy combination of childlike curiosity, an exercise in frequency manipulation that would horrify more than one orthodox music critic, and a reinterpretation of the tenderness that a certain sound can contain. Juana Molina continues to captivate the curious listener, the one who wants to break the rules of the market, searching beyond the conventional. She has justifiably been doing so for over thirty years., seducing a global audience that wants to delve behind the big shop windows and continues to set an artistic and cultural example that we cannot ignore.

Brenda – Graciela 

There are new adventures in tropical electronica And that is why we find brand new sound maps resulting from the fusion with the folk genres of our countries. In this case, we bring you the latest publication from Brenda, a Colombian DJ who defines herself as «"Global South"», and enthusiast of «latinoplunder», This last term refers to the practice of taking elements of Latin music or Latin American culture and reusing or recontextualizing them in a new format or artistic interpretation.In this case, this producer, based in Bogotá, has decided to pay homage to Casanare, a department in the eastern plains., «"A place of joropos like those of Aries Vigoth and memories of my childhood a couple of times in Yopal.". What we hear It's the Colombian-Venezuelan border sound, crossed with techno and dub, This track, released in two versions, one instrumental, aims to create a radical shift from its rural roots and aspires to become a phenomenon in major international clubs. The song, which has been released in two versions, one of them instrumental, has striking results that will surely be celebrated by fans of surprising genre combinations, who will dance wildly to its music.

Elastic brain – The Experimental Sounds Ensemble Music for the Subway Girls

A man named Dennys González frequents the Caracas metro, The vehicle institution, according to the artist himself, constantly suffers from disruptions to its arrival and departure times throughout the Venezuelan capital. González has taken advantage of these events to record the sounds around him, forming a compendium of landscapes, sketches and soundscapes.Are there songs, in the formal sense of the word? Very few, perhaps none, some fundamentalist and disgruntled observer might say. Others, giving more room to creativity and crossing boundaries that not everyone would cross, They would say that this entire album is a documentary map of the city's resonance. And, if you will, it can make us aware of the involuntary soundtracks we experience in our cities day after day. For our part, we believe this is a fun and unconventional exercise that we certainly wouldn't listen to at a party, and that we wouldn't recommend listening to during a transportation crisis., but it can bring rest and reflection in more personal moments. 

Jaguatirica Fever – Fear of the Shark

Let's close up inside a garage, hoping to see the ocean from the window, no matter how many hundreds or kilometers away the nearest beaches are. We're in Brazil, one of the best places to listen to good surf rock, and we've come across this instrumental group, who released this EP of 4 beautiful songs a little before Halloween., ready to be listened to in Bermuda shorts, sunglasses and Hawaiian shirts, regardless of whether we are, as in our case, between four walls in a city located 2600 meters above sea level.

The tunes, the group explains in its presentation text, speak (without words) of the many lives of a cat, by Edgar Allan Poe, of the Day of the Dead, of the freaks circus performers and what happens at the bottom of intercontinental waters, Taking the opportunity to inject a touch of Rockabilly, Ska, and Metal (with a delightful echo of Iron Maiden), always with a good sense of humor. We'll say it again: never forget to take a musical tour of Brazil! There's a surprise there every day to brighten our day.