Diallin' in

Uden Titel

Drengens Sang

Steel

Dejó pasar días y dejó pasar años, pero no hubo manera de esconder la rabiosa fragilidad de Elena Carat, que se expande desde la primera nota para desatar "El Nudo", el primer single que abre la nueva era de la joven artista y compositora, que brilla como cuando uno encuentra una gema brillante en una esquina en la que casi nadie estaba mirando.

Tras debutar hace más de dos años con "Madrugada" y compaginar sus días entre su carrera solista y ser la vocalista de la banda Patronato, Elena Carat tenía guardado un cancionero brillante, llamado a reescribir la historia de un riot de autor que bebe tanto de PJ Harvey, Feist, Sahron van Etten y Waxahatchee, como con cierta conexión con referentes estatales como Christina Rosenvinge, Tulsa y La Bien Querida.

La primera piedra es esta "El Nudo" con la que inicia una nueva etapa en solitario, a tientas entre el rock alternativo (con aires por momentos noise, por momentos dreamy, por momentos shoegaze), pero siempre con un poso autoril, entre melancólico y rabioso, que le da una fortaleza e identidad a la propuesta y os obliga a seguir muy de cerca a Elena Carat.

La canción, que ha contado con la co-producción de David Baldo (que ha trabajado con artistas de la talla de Aiko el Grupo, Repion, Carlangas o Fee Reega, entre otros) viene acompañada también de un videoclip dirigido por la realizadora Laura Meixús.

Elena Carat - El Nudo

Hand Me Downs

Fever Too High

Aarktica's 10th studio album merges transcendent atmospheres with darkly danceable rhythms,
expansive analog synths and layers of tape-echo guitars. The result is an immersive sound that pays homage to classic darkwave and art-rock, with hypnotic ambience and a lyrical embrace of the bittersweet.

Purchase on Bandcamp

Destination Paradise

DISTANCE (prod.onzeott)

Original music & lyrics: Rob van Berlo
AI production assistant: Rob van Berlo
Cover art: Rob van Berlo

This album is a scam. Or isn't it?

In 1992 and 1993 (as a 22 yr old) I recorded a lot of my own songs on cassette. Just me, my acoustic guitar, bass, and sometimes percussion or even borrowed drums. In my head, the songs sounded like the indie guitar bands and the grungy vibe that was in fashion at the time. Most of these tracks were left unfinished, apart from a few re-recordings and later releases.

Now, AI technology makes it possible for these songs to finally sound the way I roughly imagined them back then. Complemented by two songs I wrote in 2013 (at 44). All song structures, melodies and riffs are mine. AI just gave them a new skin. Sometimes it sounds like the band I never had in '93; other times it feels like a modern reinterpretation of that era’s sound. And I love it. Although it’s also a little frightening.

The songs were once sung by a younger me, but this time I let a woman’s voice carry them. I love the contrast: understated, emotionally contained vocals against harder sounds.

These 90's songs, together with the two later pieces (Day Upon Day, Red Moon) form a bridge between who I was and who I’ve become.

This project isn’t a gimmick. It started with curiosity. But turned out to be a conversation between eras. I fed an unfinished past into the system, and what came out feels both intimately human and eerily pristine. That friction between artefact and upgrade is where Repetition Is a Sound finds its soul.

For me it feels like the songs finally found their balance. Like a dialogue between presence and distance, noise and tenderness. Red versus Blue.

Some song snippets of the original 1993 demo are bonus track on Bandcamp: https://redvsblue.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-sketches-93-demo-snippets-2

Red vs Blue: Circle

OLDER

Yours Forever
Music and Words by Mark Magram
Performed by Mike Robledo

[3:10]
Produced by Mark Magram
©2020 MagramMusic

[v]
You know you're my special girl
my heart my soul my world
I'm sorry for the words I say
for huting you in any way

dont misinterpret me
it was never my intent to be
anything less than the man who stole your heart

[ch]
'cause baby I die just a little inside
every time that you tell me goodbye
you possess my time and my mind
and theyre yours forever
I'm begging you sift through the riverbed sand
catch all the gold before it leaves your hands
I know sometimes its hard to see
that youre the treasure I hold close
youre the thing that I love the most

[v]
I must have told you a million times
I cant see whats behind those eyes
but Ive been taking inventory
of all the joy and the pain in our story
and when I hold you tight
yeah thats when I realize
its the joy that means the most to me

[ch]
'cause baby I die just a little inside
every time that you tell me goodbye
you possess my time and my mind
and theyre yours forever
I'm begging you sift through the riverbed sand
catch all the gold before it leaves your hands
I know sometimes its hard to see
that youre the treasure I hold close
youre the thing that I love the most

[br]
I know sometimes we cant see eye to eye
then theres times when we cant look away from each others stare
this song's a love transfusion
I've only one conclusion
I'm down with me and you
tell me girl what you want to do...

[ch]
'cause baby I die just a little inside
every time that you tell me goodbye
you possess my time and my mind
and theyre yours forever
I'm begging you sift through the riverbed sand
catch all the gold before it leaves your hands
I know sometimes its hard to see
that youre the treasure I hold close
youre the thing that I love the most

Yours Forever - Featuring Mike Robledo

Mark Magram