By José Gandue @spinning zone
Artist's archive photos.
The message is concise, and in its short duration it becomes convincing. It only lasts 19 minutes and a few seconds more, but the sensation is injected into our ears and received clearly. There are only seven songs (and one serves as an intro, an ambient introduction to what's to come). But on this album, titled We don't know how, by the Montevideo artist Toto Yulelé (Rodrigo Odriozola in his formal documents), It doesn't take long to get caught up in the author's world and understand what he's talking about, to be captivated by his work. and feel that he is part of what we also want to tell.
Toto Yulelé settled in Buenos Aires a couple of years ago, probably seeking a wider platform for dissemination, but without abandoning their initial sonic intentions. Note that the Uruguayan's new album is more electric in its instrumental arrangement., But the intimacy of yesteryear, when we first met him, is not lost, as he uses acoustic textures for his compositions. This album is more mature and has a more complex production compared to what was released previously., But the artist still retains the sensitive narrative of small stories, Everyday events that, perhaps because we experience them so often, we don't notice them and let them pass us by, without realizing their importance or their potential impact on us. That's why it's easy to fall in love with a song like... Old Clothes, a quiet ballad that makes unexpected metaphors between drying freshly washed clothes and the aspiration to the act of kissing, or listen with delight to a tune like The silence, a very short description of a minute and a half where muteness, the lack of words, It is represented by resorting to phrases like «"Silence belongs to those who can keep quiet"» o «"Silence is the loneliness of smoking or an elevator between two people who cannot look at each other.". Simple, yes, it's probably already been said, But Toto knows how to sing it and then manages to hide in our memory.
My favorite moment is the final cut, the one that gives the album its title. We don't know how It's a tune that knows how to combine the percussions of candombe and the nostalgia contained in indie folk. Its variety of textures, somewhat less prevalent in the past, It is exciting and demonstrates the range of possibilities that the artist offers in his new record. The complementary voices of Maria Pien They close the entire package perfectly.
Give it a try, it's less than twenty minutes. You could also put this compilation of songs on loop., And they will realize that after a while, perhaps with two or three complete rotations, that the time they lived was lighter, more sincere, more theirs. Hopefully that will happen to them and they will incorporate this Uruguayan into their personal soundtracks.
