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Alejandra & Aeron - "Bousha Blue Blazes"
(Orthlorng Musork Records)
      Lucky Kitchen recordings are electronic folk: Samples from life thrown in with limitless laptop abilities. This sounds very serious and boring, but what Alejandra & Aeron do is more in common with what a child may do if he was caught dreaming in cyberspace. Little flourishes of warm tones and found recordings that range from ethnic folk dance music to city streets scattered with talking strangers that transcend most audible glitches and then into noise and then into more beauty that is indescribable. Most of their recordings have a soothing overtone that has to do with human interaction. Even though they never break into song there are remnants of what could've been a groove or melody. But usually they deal with tones and field recordings. Similar to the Climax Golden Twins, they conjure up a storm or electronic delight to invade it with sources of sound found within life. Unlike them, though, they keep a steady focus on realization. Most of their recordings have a meaning once digested. Not just "hey, look what we can do." It's more of we know what exists and now we will assemble these things to create this piece. This album is constructed around grandma bousha, aerons grandma, songs of sorrow. The duo reside in Spain and spend quite a bit of time around the culture found there, check out their Haunted Folklore series on Lucky Kitchen. Some sung in Portuguese, some in English, the actual vocals are very sincere and sweet. Matched with piano and guitar, live instrumentation, this is an evolving album that must be listened to as a whole. Very symphonic yet minimal, well arranged, and the tones have never sounded warmer; overall, a nice mix of laptop noise and real life study. Usually they are on their own label Lucky Kitchen, but this outing ended up on Kit Clayton/Sue Constible's label, Orthlorng Musork Ö continuing their venture into everything now and electronic. For fans of Brian Eno's Another Green World if an old woman from Spain sang vocals.

      -- Loren Shimanek



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