By José Gandue @spinning zone
🌃 A voice from New York and Guatemala
Her name is Sofia Insua. His project is circulating under the name Alex vs Alex. Her songs are a fluid and beautiful combination of sounds from alt-pop, drum & bass and experimental R&B. The result of this experimentation, very personal and, we dare to describe it as such, as material of unique identity, can be heard in his first EP, called NYC Minute.
Do you want a description without so many pretentious and know-it-all labels? This is authentic sensuality, made from intimacy and the freedom of self-management., shedding all the prejudiced cobwebs of "exotic material"« because they are tunes made by a Guatemalan woman who travels between her country, London, Berlin and New York.
🔊 17 minutes of concentrated sensory experience
There are several noteworthy facts about this production, that despite lasting only 17 minutes and a few seconds, It contains unavoidable details:
-It's a record that, although it has different speeds between each of its tracks, He never loses his daring delicacy nor his constant spirit of investigation, Whether it's with vocoders, variations in the construction of percussion sounds, the seemingly disordered bilingual combination, the vocal inflection that simulates a whisper in the ear rather than a shout to the masses, and synthesizers that avoid unnecessary virtuosity, and where the principle of "less is more" applies.
-The recording of this EP features key collaborations with artists born in Guatemala, like Gabriel Dinero, Tita, Bumont and Piece of Meat with an Eye, which confirms that in that country there is a hotbed of talent that we cannot ignore, especially when they come together to bring forth productions with this brilliance.
-Readers of Zonagirante.com already know that we appreciate well-made, tender music, the kind that avoids sentimentality and, rather, It enhances the seriousness of expressions of love and unease without falling into the soap opera-like.
🌀 Intimate electronic music, without fireworks
We are talking about a new continental generation that does not believe in the unnecessary drama and clichés with which Latinos are usually portrayed around the world.
Songs like Having T o See me for the first time, They sound like heartfelt wishes expressed in a touching way, with enough seriousness to captivate the audience without muddying it with simulated drama.
🎶 Alt-pop with a dream R&B structure
In the end, NYC Minute, regardless of where it came from and how it was made, It's an emotional and, at the same time, contemporary album., which happily helps to renew the landscape of new Latin American music. There is no need to elaborate: It barely exceeds fifteen minutes in length., But what Sofía Insua (Alex vs Alex) has done confirms that lately musical pleasure comes in small packages. There's no excuse to miss it.
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