i was first a little hesitant to wanna listen to the whole thing. i mean it didn't feel like a serious album, more like beat samples almost. So i'd just put 'tierra sagrada' on repeat. And one day, on a warm yet hazy winter afternoon stroll through the city (setting the scene here), i somehow didn't press 'menu' to wonder off to another album. I stood and listened through the whole thing and the whole thing was actually great. I mean the songs were yummy bitesizes and they felt incomplete at times, sure... but i think there's a genuine ease about this music... not that he didn't care, but he didn't overthink. It's a real achievement that he managed to corral together his lyrical vision of playful nihilism, his nonchalant voice, tropical percussions, synths, 90's techno beats, while still sounding innocent, pared-down and well cute. And let's just say it to be pretentious, there's an obvious graduate thesis here somewhere about mexic0/u.s border conciousness of post modern/post-nafta&9.11 nihilistic transcendence. This is THE music to listen to after watching reygadas' batallas en el cielo.download through their myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/mariayjosejose
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