By José Gandue @spinning zone
We still bear the scars and lingering effects of the pandemic. And while some find refuge in cries and despair, others, offering what we perceive as a more compassionate solution, have chosen music as their remedy. Singing and dancing is by no means denying reality, quite the opposite: It's about calming inner demons, shaking off fears and taming them, healing the body with sweat and euphoria. That's more or less what it's about The Nest, third album by Montoya, a Colombian producer residing in Treviso, Italy, who in his recordings It incorporates vibrant Caribbean and Pacific sounds in its vastness, to the latest trends in global electronic music. His new release, in the artist's own words, his album is about «To become virgins of destiny again, facing that fatalistic world and creating that longing for tranquility.“.
The Nest, released by the record label ZZK Records, It is called that, not only because of the reference it makes to home, to the house where we find the necessary care, but also because Montoya's last live experience before the pandemic took place in a Philippine municipality on the island of Palawan of the same name. In that town described as paradise, the desire arose to musically recreate uplifting atmospheres, built to combat the chaos of the times. Let's not be mistaken: These aren't holiday tunes, this is maritime art that can be heard on any beach invented in our minds and in any healing wave we can turn to, no matter how surrounded by cement we are.
This plaque features distinguished guests, such as the Colombians Nidia Góngora, Pedrina and Montañera, the Mexican Pahua, the Peruvian Lara Nuh and the Franco-Venezuelan The Girl, who, in our opinion, stars in the album's most outstanding moment, Rosewood, an intense recording of five minutes and 18 seconds, which we can describe as a house instant that seems to have been composed on a trip between the coasts of Southeast Asia and the jungles of Chocó.
In the end, The Nest It is a pleasant production that will surely be heavily promoted at European summer festivals and that, fortunately, It is also available through Bandcamp and other digital platforms, on this side of the planet.
