Barzin: presentación de su nuevo disco ‘Notes To An Absent Lover’

El cantante de Toronto Barzin Hosseini, acompañado de su banda, llegan a Mallorca para presentar su nuevo y tercer disco “Notes To An Absent Lover”. Su música irradia calor y sensibilidad. Ofrecen un complejo catálogo de melancolía y belleza arropada por pianos, guitarras, paisajes y maravillosas voces suaves y minimalistas. En sus directos incorporan instrumentos como el vibráfono o la guitarra slide, dando lugar a una música tan expansiva como cinemática, que destila intimidaad y honestidad.

Toronto singer-songwriter Barzin Hosseini and his band come to Mallorca to present his new and third album. Rich songs filled with melancholy and warmth, minimalism and hushed vocals and the introduction of new uptempo orchestral elements. Slow and melancholic, introspective and confessional, this is beautiful and atmospheric music.

Reflecting the highs and lows experienced by the human heart in the aftermath of a break-up, Barzin’s third album, ‘Notes To An Absent Lover’, balances the introspection of his earlier work with up-tempo orchestral arrangements that provide a richly melodic heartbeat to these glowing confessionals. Personal but never indulgent, the raw honesty of the lyrics details universal themes of sorrow, regret and anger, evoking all the vulnerability and shifting emotions of a failed relationship.

From the gentle grieving of ‘Soft Summer Girls’ (“By the light of the kitchen, I’ve been reading your notes. I didn’t notice I had forgotten the sound of your voice”), to the bitter defiance of ‘Look What Love Has Turned Us Into‘, with its aggressive, pounding drums, ‘Notes To An Absent Lover‘ brings new textures and colours to Barzin’s palette. In addition to Karen Graves’ string arrangements, splashes of vibraphone, pedal steel and banjo surface amid the traditional guitars, bass and drums. In harmony with the sentiment guiding them, the musicians display a graceful empathy while Barzin’s voice and words take centre stage.

Just as the lyrics eschew symbolism in favour of candour, gone too is the sonic experimentation employed in 2006′s ‘My Life In Rooms’, replaced with a more direct style of music and a greater ‘pop’ sensibility.

‘Notes To An Absent Lover’ was recorded by Don Kerr (Ron Sexsmith) and Jeremy Darby (Pink Floyd, Lou Reed), and mixed by Chad Irschick and Darryl Neudorf (Neko Case, The New Pornographers).

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Fecha de publicación: 20/03/2009 • Sección: Conciertos • Temas relacionados: Hivern a Mallorca, Teatre Lloseta