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Check out her myspace page, and the video: http://www.myspace.com/juanamolina She describes her background, looping, has an interview, shows here in the studio, live, etc. She describes when she went to the US and was asking if there was a machine where she could hit a button and would record her, play it back, etc. Such an innocent discovery of looping technology. You should bring her to Y2K9, Rick. Kris ----- Original Message ----- > Because I've produced the big loop fest in Santa Cruz for many years and > because > I've been fortunate to play several festivals in other countries over >the > past five years, > I've had the great fortune to see some of the world's best live loopers >do > their thing > in front of an audience. > > Tonight, I saw one of the most impressive shows I"ve ever seen a live > looper play. > I drove up to San Francisco and saw the Argentine singer/songwriter >Juana > Molina > play to a sold out house at Yoshi's, SF, the beautiful jazz club on > Fillmore Street. > > Man, oh man, was it an amazing concert! I felt like jumping up and > down after watching it. > > This former famous television commediene in Argentina who gave up here > life to return to music > was firing on all cylinders. > > Using a very, very sparse setup that included a BOSS RC-50, a Lexicon > reverb (couldn't tell but it > looked like an older MXP-500), a Korg O1W synthesizer and a beautiful > steel string > acoustic guitar, she had seemless mastery of her looping. > > She also could go from playing almost childlike simple guitar/voice > compositions with a delightful and > very childlike voice to incredibly complex polyrhythmic multi-looped > parts. > She also occasionally used really dense timbral loops against very >simple > melodic parts and she also > used a lot of very, very complex modern and dissonant harmony against, >yet > again, very simple > and memorable melodies. > > Her rhythm playing was impeccable on both guitar, keyboards and voice. > > She really did beautiful things with backing her voice up with loops >that > were very wet, reverb wise against > a very dry initial vocal style. > > She did tunes that were so simple as to almost be confounding and then > would turn around and do a track that > have up to 10 or 12 loops on top of one another in a cacaphonous but > beautiful mass of sound. > > She even attemped one song in English............fucked up the lyrics > (four different times) and had the audience > shouting them to her (from the poem, The Love Song of Alfred Prusock by >TS > Elliot) and yet > ended the song with the audience rooting for her and cheering that fact > that she made it through. > > I have to say I was incredibly impressed............as impressed as I've > ever been by anybody. > > She's a killer guitarist, a great rhythmatist (and this comes from a >bit > of a rhythm snob here), a > beautiful and challenging timbralist (her synth designs were modern and > edgy but always simple) > and an engaging and frequently humorous performer. > > FIVE STARS on this puppy. Check here out > > Juana Molina