So now it's Spring and all the little flowers and birds are chirping in thier happy world. And so are we, right? Let's hope that the pretty Dandelions spring up with some song and cheer in our world, the one we just defrosted.

We felt this song best describes one's entry to the world of romance, and being loved. We love everything, and what else do we expect? Can we find it in this time of new things and staying in our place with peace and harmony? It's what we deserve, we glided into this world, or it seems like that, carefree and spreading peace, love, and joy wherever we go. Like the pedals of the singular dandelion, how graceful and sweet it is.

Dandelions

How The West Was Won (1962) / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)

This week we’re hitching our wagons to the epic visions of MGM and Kevin Costner as we explore two sprawling takes on westward expansion

#147 - Horizons West

Linked by fate and brought together by laser focus on storytelling through music, UNA is a collective of head, heart, and soul. With a barebones roster of Jennifer Nice on vocals, Richard Larsen on keys and production, Eddie Barajas on turntables, and Scott Eric Olivier on guitar and drums. UNA imparts a larger-than-life sound on listeners, telling intricate tales in a direct, sensual and cinematic style.

Inspired by the present, the past and things as simple as a feeling, UNA is a spirited electronic track inspired by an insufferable crime of passion; an opulent lullaby based on global human drama; an anguished, orchestral trip-hop ballad about an unstable world.

Could the magic of UNA be categorized into a genre? Maybe. Downtempo and electronica surely loom large in the quartet's repertoire, but so do blues, jazz, Latin influences, soul and funk; a retro-future sensibility with a sound firmly planted in the present. 

Dedicated to borrowing from all genres to tell their stories, a throughline persists; earnestly sultry vocals, penchant keys, expansive basslines, blithesome gritty instrumentation and cavernous effects forming a pleasing marriage between light and dark that drips with charisma.

The smoke twisting in the wind, the little girl crying in the closet, the existential conundrums of the modern world. The mystical experience of simply living. UNA is the sound of everyday living. With a twist.

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