Un Dia - Dark Publications

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
The fifth release from Argentinean artist Molina is a brave departure from her previous work. It's every bit as personal and intimate, but pronounced with rhythms and with bold low end added to the mix. A hypnotic record, restless, alive with melodies that surface imperceptibly before burrowing into your brain. The tracks are informed by an ever-shifting and polymorphous sense of groove. The rhythms flow over and inside each other, played out on wood and cymbal and bombo leguero, and woven from electronic glitches. David Byrne, NPR, and The NY Times are some of her many supporters.

Album Description
Japanese pressing includes bonus material. Hostess. 2008.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Juana Molina "Un dia" October 14, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful

Jamas hago reviews de discos, no me llama la atencion hacerlas; pero habiendo comprado y escuchado este ultimo disco de Juana Molina, me veo en la obligacion de decir que es una obra maestra, no puedo quedarme callado esta vez; ya son 5 los discos que esta enorme artista le ha dado al mundo y no llega a tener el reconocimiento que se merece.

Este disco y los anteriores demoran muchisimo en editarse en su propio pais, y eso da la pauta de lo poco que se valora a esta genia.

Con respecto al disco en cuestion... es una belleza, como los anteriores, para escuchar sentado tranquilo, para sumergirse en las melodias, para tratar de interpretar las letras.

Si te gusta la buena musica bien ejecutada, las melodias armadas y complejas dentro de su simpleza, la musica en su estado mas armonioso y puro. Este es tu disco.

En fin, un gran disco de una enorme artista que quizas, algun dia, sea reconocida como lo que es: un Genio.

Gracias Juana ! y a ver cuando te vemos de nuevo por Montevideo ;)

4 out of 5 stars

Truly Groundbreaking : Five Times in a Row October 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

For Juana Molina, creating world music that sounds 'different' is by now something she is used to. On what I consider her best album, "Son", she took the tempo down even further and created a set of slow, intimate groove numbers that also worked as spacial, orchestral masterworks. The artist is indeed an experimentalist, but its quite something that she manages to remain mainstream while doing so, with enough 'pop' elements in her records so as to not be classified 'aloof'.

Things should change with "Una Dia" though, as this is by far her least accessible record. For long term fans such as myself, the album is yet another departure, as it is definitely 'faster paced' than her last two languid, almost breathtakingly slow albums. But for listeners who come trying to discover a new world artist, this might not be the best place to start. I highly recommend her far more intimate debut album for that. On "Una Dia", some of the set pieces are almost like intricately designed soundtrack-vignettes from some lost Spanish arthouse film. All of her 'nature' elements are still present, but there is a darker, more elusive quality to the music, almost bordering on trip-hop but without the beats (think a stripped down Tricky, or Martina Topley-Bird).

Personally I found the album too short, and the last three tracks a tad meandering, but its still essential if you are at all interested in Molina's musical output. She is the Frida Kahlo of the Spanish music world - underappreciated, yet eccentrically talented. Give this a spin, and check out that gorgeous cover art (all of Molina's album artwork are masterpieces in their own right - I have the artwork for her third album as a poster print, framed)

Four Stars.

Tracklisting:

1. Un Dia
2. Vive Solo
3. Lo Dejamos
4. Los Hongos De Marosa
5. Quien? (Suite)
6. El Vestido
7. No Llama
8. Dar (Que Dificil)

5 out of 5 stars

Compelling and hypnotic rhythms and layers November 13, 2008
The first track, Un Dia, begins without hesitation and catalyzes the listener into a rhythmic soundscape of multi-layered vocals that reminds me of no one so much as Philip Glass, though the comparison with Glass pretty much ends there. The songs, fast and slow, are kaleidescopes of beats, sounds, melodies and words. A woodsy, psychedelic feel permeates the album from the artwork to the music, and it makes me think of some forested fantasy world full of lush vegetation and bizzare creatures juxtaposed with a slow Sunday morning. This is the first Juana Molina album I have listened to, and it has given me a wonderful impression of the artist and compels me to want to hear more from her.

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