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    The document provides an overview of the EP 'Te Tenemos Muy Cerca' by Spanish artist Juan Carlos Roldán. It describes the eclectic and collaborative nature of Roldán's music. The 4 track EP was produced by Rafael Martínez del Pozo and arranged by Javier Álvarez, combining elements of avant-garde, musique concrete, hip hop and other styles. Each track is briefly described.

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    The document provides an overview of the EP 'Te Tenemos Muy Cerca' by Spanish artist Juan Carlos Roldán. It describes the eclectic and collaborative nature of Roldán's music. The 4 track EP was produced by Rafael Martínez del Pozo and arranged by Javier Álvarez, combining elements of avant-garde, musique concrete, hip hop and other styles. Each track is briefly described.

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    ROLDÁN

    TE TENEMOS MUY CERCA


    Roldán is both sufficiently eclectic and modular so as to
    resist being pigeonholed with a static definition,
    especially if we bear in mind the band’s countless
    collaborations and ever-changing lineups at live gigs. He
    is a mainstay of the artistic community born at the School
    of Fine Arts in Cuenca, from which most of their partners
    in sound experimentation come: Rafa Martínez del Pozo
    (La Jr, AA Tigre), Javi Álvarez (Dúo Cobra, Fluzo), Kiev
    Cuando Nieva or Lorena Álvarez y su Banda Municipal.

    What is, nonetheless, especially interesting about this act


    is how all these elements are juxtaposed: the instruments
    are not subservient to the song itself, nor do they really
    01 . La Princesa Y La Ballena provide a main riff. Rather, the instrumentation is
    02 . Aventuras En La Gran Ciudad 2 articulated in a completely nonhierarchical and
    03 . Belugas decentralized fashion. In this sense, the arrangements
    04 . No Huyáis are like a set of vectors or packets of information that
    spread out freely on their own, thus causing the sensation
    Produced, mixed and masterized by Rafael of a heterogeneous, yet harmonious, sound whose
    Martínez del Pozo at Grabaciones del complexity is akin to that of a symphonic music or
    Campo. Recorded by Rafael M. del Pozo at baroque aesthetics. While Roldán does not sit
    Grabaciones del Campo, Castro de comfortably within current pop-music conventions, the
    Cepeda, and by Javier Álvarez at La songs are catchy in their own way. And they are
    Follable, Barcelona challenging, as they lack predictability, repetition and
    redundancy. The listener must play an active role in the
    Artwork Javier Aquilué and La Follable process of deciphering the creative mismatches that slyly
    bestow an occasional knowing wink at DIY sensibilities
    Juan Carlos Roldán voice, guitars, with a sense of humor...
    percussion, vibes and piano
    ‘Te Tenemos Muy Cerca’ is an EP made up of four tracks
    Javier Álvarez vibes, omnichord, circuit (as opposed to “songs” in the conventional sense)
    bending, double bass, scratching, synths, produced and recorded by Rafael Martínez del Pozo and
    electronical dolphins, cigar box guitar and then subsequently was arranged by Javier Álvarez. The
    clarinet result is something like a set of dials that range from
    avant-garde noise to musique concrete, while including
    Rafael Martínez del Pozo charango at visual and narrative techniques of hip hop and DJ mixes.
    ‘Aventuras En La Gran Ciudad 2‘ and Kantia
    Diego voice at ‘No Huyáis’ What emerges from this cocktail of styles are tracks such
    as the fascinating ‘La Princesa Y La Ballena’, in which
    Release date 5th of June 2012 faint African riffs meet dub, and prepsychodelic science
    LP10’’ rlp14 / MP3 rcd14 fiction; or ‘No Huyáis’: a paradoxical lyrical waltz framed
    by a captivating flow of rudimentary drums that is both
    Label Repetidor spontaneous and intuitive. The hilariously epic ‘Aventuras
    Distribution BCore En La Gran Ciudad’, in which we see traces of Scott
    Digital distribution Zebralution Walker’s angst-ridden ‘Tilt’ precisely when we hear the
    eccentric howl of the EP’s title ‘¡Te tenemos muy cerca!’.
    Promo [email protected] The metric plasticity of the track contrasts with the
    precision of the hi-hats of blacksploitation films. ‘Las
    Management + 34 666 436 481 belugas’, with its beautiful bossa nova rhythm and
    [email protected] strident guitar that follow the vocal melody, along with its
    wonderful vibraphone coda, is the clearest reference to
    www.repetidordisc.com Gastr del Sol and Red Krayola.

    (...) Esperanza Collado, filmmaker and Dos Gajos’ member

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