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Juana Molina has created a complete hybrid of organic folk sounds and synthetic electronic ones on Son. And they sound good together. Seriously, this woman must have no stress in her life, at least nothing that comes out in her music. She has an open-ended continuous stream of consciousness vibe here that starts at the beginning of the first song and ends at the end of the last one. If you can't chill after listening to this album you just aren't trying. Or you should seek help.
Son is very melody oriented, and doesn't really have a strong sense of percussion, but any hard drums might actually ruin some of these songs. Maybe all of them. Most of the percussion comes acoss with a soft thud, like the drums were being hit with pillows. The bongo-like drums on the opening track Rio Seco is a perfect fit for the music, kind of backgroundish and tepid.
Juana and her keyboard and guitar and electronics are all woven together into one hyper-instrument. A Folklina. An Electrana keyboard mashup of organic proportions. Her voice melds seamlessly with the music, it's an instrument itself.
It's got an otherworldly sound to it, like it inhabits a world in the forest that we've never been to before. If you stumble across it, Juana Molina will be there, playing her music among the trees. I had the windows open when I was listening to this, and I actually had a hard time discerning between the animal sounds in the music and the ones coming from outside.
In a perfect bit of serendipity, I picked up the CD case while listening to the album and a green spider walked off of the CD case and onto my hand. How fitting I thought, she's taken organic life and put it in the packaging! OK, I didn't REALLY think that but the green spider is a perfect metaphor for the music. And the spider thing was real.
