An entrancing, rather magical and unique fourth LP of experimental avant-garde electro-acoustic work by the 32-year-old Guatemalan cellist based in Mexico City who creatively distorts her instrument alongside her haunting vocals. Opener Kravitz juxtaposes a dark, meaty, fuzzy distorted cello low string line, like guitar bass solo, with blasts of evocative brass and her high, clear voice, with vocals in Spanish as the rest of the album. Elastica II and Kitana feature Fratti alternately scraping and hitting the instrument’s strings. Pantalia Azul is mysteriously minimal, but gorgeously intertwines vocal and strings before twinkling keyboards join in. Oidos has a more familiar cello sound with arpeggios with added percussion and abstract piano and a haunting sung melody. Quieros o No mixes deep strings with oddball distortions. Enfrante is among the standouts with clanky percussion and swooning strings and her close-mic vocals. With further creative combinations, it’s a mesmeric release with oodles of oddness and at times unrecognisable sounds from a truly original artist doing entirely new things with her main instrument. Out on Unheard of Hope/ Tin Angel Records.
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