Elisa Prez from Madrid evokes in ‘El descending’, her second album, the environments of Brian Eno, the creativity of Laurie Anderson and the coming environmental disasters in the key of ‘synth-pop’
The law of desire governs us with an iron fist and a nitrile glove. The society of opulence -it is a hypothesis- eats the world in bites and throws the wrapper into the sea.
Elisa Prez (1989) from Madrid absently observes from her ivory tower, and remains silent. Then he starts playing patches on his computer, rereads the lyrics of the Smiths Y Battiatolisten a lot synth-pop from the early 80s, soup remains on the keyboard and when he wakes up he discovers that he has made an album that portrays, like a polaroid, with a mechanical impassiveness, at least a little of all this disorder.
Its titled The descent (No Return) and in it they shake hands, in the key of modern electronic pop (and therefore a nostalgic point), rampant environmentalism, Dante and Hades, a good handful of bittersweet melodies and a family loss that silently wraps everything in a dark mantle.
It is an artisanal and self-released album, almost made sparingly at home (finished vocals and studio mixes), with a deceptive coldness, which sometimes bets on what at first seems like a certain ugliness, but then reveals a different beauty.
A drop in the ocean, but an interesting refutation of the east in which we live. Pure stoic pop with (sign of the times) autotunewho looks at himself in the mirror Brian Eno (which inspires the theme The Gardener: The Artist Planting Seeds), Laurie Anderson Y Dandruff attack, among others.
As, abandon is a modest skeptical anthem wrapped in detachment brechtiano, The crash party illustrates one of the most widespread fears in these somewhat shitty times, and our remains is supported by a post-nuclear video clip that portrays a future world in ruins.
She goes with the no ahead, but then passes as with her musical alias: Caliza. Which can become marble, yes, but it can also permeate water. We are not destroying the planet, but we are destroying the conditions on which life is sustained. How to preserve what is left? I am not an expert, but we should change the way we relate to natural resources, the modes of production
Caliza played the drums in bands called Madrid indies (Cosmen Adelaida, Rusos Blancos), and later she flew alone. I picked up a keyboard, and since I didn’t know how to do anything, everything I did seemed unbelievable.
Audience in 2018 crystal sea and followed his own path, which now takes an unexpected turn as a result of his militancy in the bellicose environmental group Extinction Rebellion. Today the music must be something nice, the playlists adjust to moods, it is what feeds the algorithm.
It is not your case. The bittersweet air The descent transfers our paradoxes to music: There is a total contradiction between what we want, the aspirations that are instilled in us since childhood, and what really does us good, says Caliza, with upcoming dates in Madrid (January 29, Siroco) and Barcelona (February 19, Heliogbal).
Where do we walk? The stimuli we receive go once morest our own interests, ends.
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