Blacanova - Blacanova (2010) EN

This week is a journey to an other part of Europe - Spain, the land of fiest and loud music. But even there it is not difficult to find things that are delicate, melancholic and touching you straight in your feels. One of them is, no doubts, a sextet called Blacanova. A mixture of folk, post-rock, shoegazing ethereal vocals and lyrics in Spanish. The band comes from Sevilla (the average temperature during the whole years is almost 19°C there) but they sound as if they've just left a cottage in a remote part of Scandinavian Peninsula. There's no sun nor beaches in their music, it's easier to find fog stretched between snowy mountain peaks.

Like in "Debe ser" in which sad vocal covers a story of rape and begging for someone's reaction and when you'd bet that the folk whispers are bound to cease, the whole thing errupts with a post-tock noisy wall of guitar sounds. Delicacy and, at the same time, poignant abruptness.

In Spain, there are not really known, if there's anybody writing about their music, they use those adjectives: dark, dense, noisy, mesmerize. It is one of the most beautiful reasons to learn Spanish.

Blacanova was recorded in La Mina, Sevilla, and mastered by Kenny MacLeod in Glasgow. You can get it for free on Bandcamp (but if someone falls in love, they should help the Andalucians).

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