Thursday, July 30, 2009

La Llama

by Savath y Savalas

This is a very beautiful, if difficult to describe, album. Savath y Savalas are made up of Guillermo Scott-Heron (aka Prefuse 73), Eva Puyuelo Muns, and Roberto Carlos Lange. The Stones Throw website refers to the album as Catalan acid-folk which I suppose might work as a description.

Basically, the album has a lot of slow, sometimes morose, sometimes calm, singing in Catalan or Portuguese (not sure which) over an ambient, Brazilian inflected background. It works very nicely as background music, and is easy to drift off to.

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