Juana Molina
(Kristine Larsen)
Juana Molina lands on my very short list of Awesome. Nobody sings like her -- that raspy ever-so-slightly-but-delightfully-flat tone. And very few people make music that's simultaneously so inviting but so completely formless. Well, I shouldn't use the word completely. There's form there. It just not the usual snoozy song-structurey form. Her songs ebb and flow and and meander from one section to the next like water, organic but full of unexpected turns. Like sometimes she'll ditch the words and start to vocalize like a cat. I don't know why, but it works. Hope you dig this one. It's one of only about forty songs that frequent my list of Awesome.
And for more of Juana's music, check out the Sperm show, where we used some bits and pieces of one of her songs. And this podcast we produced with her, after a ton of you demanded to hear more.
If you like this track, check out more from Juana Molina on iTunes:
The son of a scientist and a doctor, Jad Abumrad did most of his growing up in Tennessee, before studying creative writing and music composition at Oberlin College in Ohio. Following graduation, Abumrad wrote music for films, and reported and produced documentaries for a variety of local and national public radio programs, including On the Media, PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and WNYC's "24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero".
Comments [8]
WOW. loving the remix. seriously. this is some seriously gorgeous business. can you put a link to this version of 'un día'?? what a tribute to JM, my very favorite!
I Love Juana Molina! You're too late :p
Sounds like many other "artists" out there, nothing ground breaking
Thanks to you, from a year or two ago, Juana Molina is one of my absolute favorites.
Wow, this is definitely full of awesome. I have found my working music for the night, thanks Jad!
Jad what did you say to make her look so unhappy in the picture?
Grande Juana!
I remember Juana from the time she was a popular impersonator on TV back in the early 90' in Buenos Aires. She was so good doing that as she is now as a musician.
I like this song; my cat does not. He's looking at the corners of the room wondering why he can't see the birds that have somehow infiltrated the apartment.
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