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Tonal Y Nagual are back with a new release after last years ‘The Hidden Oasis’ on Thonar Records. While I do know them by name, I’ve never heard a complete album by them. I know they walk the line between neo-folk, industrial and experimental music, so I’m pretty curious what it all sounds like!
The album starts very logically with the outro, which also has the name of their last album, ‘The Hidden Oasis (outro)’. The song sounds very folky and they talk about that white men have no rhythm and they don’t know why. This continues in the second song, which is called ‘Whiteman Got No Riddim’, this time aided with some electronic poison. ‘Anybody’ had very old school electronic sounds. Also some guitars are used and the whole feels like it could come from a David E. Williams album. ‘Honey’ is a very funny song about “sticking your little fingers into the honeyâ€. It has lots of little bleepy electro sounds, but contains a neo-folk aesthetic. One of the highlights of the album for me is ‘Mister Cranky Tree’. It’s an electronic song with deep beats and distorted sound, but has very clean and catchy vocals and lyrics. It has a of combination of mild industrial noise rhythms and neo-folk sensibilities. Although it has lots of noise elements to it, it’s still a very catchy song. ‘Get Out Of My Way’ has a very funky groove to it. It’s again a very different sound approach. Another highlight for me is ‘The Loneliest Place’, which starts with a sample that says “what if this was no dream†which are later on sung in the song as well. It’s a very neo-folkish song, but still somewhat different than your usual one. Also very catchy. ‘Tribes of the Night’ is a pretty raw song, which uses hard beats, harsh guitars and distorted vocals. One of the other highlights of the album is ‘Cogs In The Machine’, which has already been talked about and also appeared on the ‘Extreme Störfrequenz 4’ sampler. Yep, that’s right; it’s an extremely clubby and catchy powernoise song. No doubt their biggest potential club-hit. Hard beats with distorted vocals which are extremely efficient and effective. It may be a more of a mild powernoise song, but it will for sure make you dance. Then we get ‘The Real Outro’, which is an instrumental song with spoken samples. A very relaxing song after all the stomping around. ‘Proud To Be’ is another catchy as hell song, which is very electro-rock oriented. It’s also a remix by Die Perlen. The album ends with another remix, ‘Kaputt Machine’, done by Zero Degree, which some sort of a remix of ‘Cogs In The Machine’.
‘La Sierra Mecánica’ is the first album experience of Tonal Y Nagual for me, and I’m really overwhelmed by the diversity and quality of the songs! From very catchy neo-folk to instant powernoise club-hits. And what is even more striking is that it all hangs together like a kind of travelogue, instead of being a collection of songs. It all feels very consistent, and to do that with such a diversity of material is very difficult to accomplish, but Tonal Y Nagual seem to do this with the least amount of problems. An album that dares to go from obscure sounds to clubby songs. And all this with great quality and atmosphere. The logical conclusion is therefore that this album is a must-buy, just in time to being one of the highlights of the year! The album is released on Confusibombus, but is officially distributed by ant-zen.
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