Artist.......: Fax
Album........: Yo Recuerdo
Label........: Static Discos Mexico
Genre........: Electronic
Catnr........: STA 025
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Dec-20-2008
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.faxmusik.com/
track title time
01. Intro 01:38
02. Cuarto Para Tres 04:14
03. Concreto 04:29
04. Cielo Rojo 05:54
05. Rota 04:59
06. Yo Recuerdo (I Remember) 06:08
07. Bosque 05:57
08. Tormenta De Arena 05:56
09. Millas 05:38
10. Cuarto Para Tres (Dance Mix) 06:52
Runtime 51:45 min
Size 72,1 MB
Release Notes:
Moments of heartbreak, the slow-burning return of
memories and evenings spent all night wired seem to
all appear and flow through FaxÆs latest release Yo
Recuerdo. Moving away ever so slightly from his
earlier, darker recordings, Ruben Tamayo, who is
Fax, reduces the beat ratio in favour warmly
treated guitars and synth haze. Closely related to
FourtetÆs ôRoundsö of a few years back this album
appears slow and sweet whilst washing in wonderful
swathes of rounded, reverberating sound.
As mentioned above, the tracks feel like the hours
just prior to and surrounding sunrise. The beats
are soft and warm, like knocking blocks of wood
together while the bass travels long and low
beside. The album picks up the pace about half-way
through on æRotaÆ, a thudding heart-beat around
which a simple guitar line is allowed to flutter
and slide. Its so rare to hear an electronica
artist utilise this many guitars in their
recordings and it seems that wherever they can be
drawn out by the ear they shimmer and move lightly
through and occasionally appearing at the fore as
major motifs. The two vocal tracks æYo RecuerdoÆ
and æTormenta De ArenaÆ feature Uriel Villalobos of
Mexican rock group Perdutto, and the Argentinean
singer Florencia Ruiz respectively. Both tracks are
given to the singers as dreamscapes almost, their
voices being allowed to move through the songs in a
similarly sleepy wandering way. Which is not to say
they sound tired or pedestrian, its more like
theyÆre running through their nostalgias in the
hours before sleep, allowing Fax to create the mood
and setting.
For all its night-time visions and breathy
remembering the Yo Recuerdo is wonderfully bright
as a release. Its soft and warm and light and airy
and makes you want to quickly opt out of this
interminable winter in search of some Mexican
wonderland of warm, eternal dawn.