Playback Maracas & The Electronic Moon Orchestra / Playback Maracas & The Electroni Moon Orchestra

It's 2018 and it takes songs all the time, as Drake, Nicki Minaj or C well know. Tanganyika. But there are also people who take things easy and we had to wait a couple of years to enjoy Playback Maracas in Spotify, Apple Music and company. The project of Eloi Martínez and Álex Pérez considers "live their main strategy" and until now they could only be heard live or through some Youtube director.

What they had in their hands has been worthwhile and is also totally faithful to their philosophy. Playback Maracas & The Electronic Moon Orchestra' is an album recorded live on February 4th at La Factoria d'Arts Escèniques in Banyoles with the aforementioned orchestra. In him we find a perfect conjunction between his concerns about original electronics, loops or post-rock, and a series of orchestral arrangements by Julián Álvarez Chaia, which appear to complement the compositions without any rococo effect. Thus, 'Moohn' is a cosmic song with cloudy eyes, full of mystery and evocation, in which between the ultra Siouxsie guitar and the tense strings, a sax finally emerges. Las Palmas', between connection problems that seem scratches, is crowned with impressive winds and strings. And 'The truth' can be influenced by Daft Punk (it is something declared), but it is also influenced by the most precious Yann Tiersen (watch out, this one has also hit the post-rock and the progressive).

Fascinated by the UFOs to the point that 'Welcome Latino Alien' includes a conversation between pilots watching suspicious lights, Playback Maracas have also enriched their speech with other types of samples. The well-known 'Cabesa' includes a speech by Charles Chaplin in 'The Great Dictator' and 'Salami', crowned by a rush of arrangements and brutal drums, also includes some words by Che Guevara ("Our two main problems are imperialism and imperialism, so the others can come later"). There's nothing left over or missing in these 39 minutes of film, in which Playback Maracas makes a great use of their multiple influences, which also includes the italodisco, soft-rock or Latin guitars. Welcome Latino Alien' may be very Daft Punk, but her own name and the brasses put her in a post-party where she could make a "featuring" until Santana. Her second half I want it to sound at my wedding, with ET and everything. Playback Maracas present the album today Saturday December 15 at Razzmatazz, Barcelon

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