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Re: AMAZING LIVE LOOPING SHOW: Argentina's Juan Molina in SF
Check out her myspace page, and the video:
http://www.myspace.com/juanamolina
She describes her background, looping, has an interview, shows here in the
studio, live, etc. She describes when she went to the US and was asking if
there was a machine where she could hit a button and would record her,
play
it back, etc. Such an innocent discovery of looping technology.
You should bring her to Y2K9, Rick.
Kris
----- Original Message -----
> Because I've produced the big loop fest in Santa Cruz for many years and
> because
> I've been fortunate to play several festivals in other countries over
>the
> past five years,
> I've had the great fortune to see some of the world's best live loopers
>do
> their thing
> in front of an audience.
>
> Tonight, I saw one of the most impressive shows I"ve ever seen a live
> looper play.
> I drove up to San Francisco and saw the Argentine singer/songwriter
>Juana
> Molina
> play to a sold out house at Yoshi's, SF, the beautiful jazz club on
> Fillmore Street.
>
> Man, oh man, was it an amazing concert! I felt like jumping up and
> down after watching it.
>
> This former famous television commediene in Argentina who gave up here
> life to return to music
> was firing on all cylinders.
>
> Using a very, very sparse setup that included a BOSS RC-50, a Lexicon
> reverb (couldn't tell but it
> looked like an older MXP-500), a Korg O1W synthesizer and a beautiful
> steel string
> acoustic guitar, she had seemless mastery of her looping.
>
> She also could go from playing almost childlike simple guitar/voice
> compositions with a delightful and
> very childlike voice to incredibly complex polyrhythmic multi-looped
> parts.
> She also occasionally used really dense timbral loops against very
>simple
> melodic parts and she also
> used a lot of very, very complex modern and dissonant harmony against,
>yet
> again, very simple
> and memorable melodies.
>
> Her rhythm playing was impeccable on both guitar, keyboards and voice.
>
> She really did beautiful things with backing her voice up with loops
>that
> were very wet, reverb wise against
> a very dry initial vocal style.
>
> She did tunes that were so simple as to almost be confounding and then
> would turn around and do a track that
> have up to 10 or 12 loops on top of one another in a cacaphonous but
> beautiful mass of sound.
>
> She even attemped one song in English............fucked up the lyrics
> (four different times) and had the audience
> shouting them to her (from the poem, The Love Song of Alfred Prusock by
>TS
> Elliot) and yet
> ended the song with the audience rooting for her and cheering that fact
> that she made it through.
>
> I have to say I was incredibly impressed............as impressed as I've
> ever been by anybody.
>
> She's a killer guitarist, a great rhythmatist (and this comes from a
>bit
> of a rhythm snob here), a
> beautiful and challenging timbralist (her synth designs were modern and
> edgy but always simple)
> and an engaging and frequently humorous performer.
>
> FIVE STARS on this puppy. Check here out
>
> Juana Molina