AKANE – Night-Time Birds

KRXN034

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Debut album by Akane, a new bedroom solo project by Tenerife’s Carolina Machado – best known for her role as drummer and singer in space rock psychedelic outfit Gaf y La Estrella de la Muerte.

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Description

Cooked and slowly matured over the last couple of years, Carolina opens up her heart to present an intimate collection of dreamy avant pop songs under the banner title Night-Time Birds.

With various nods to David Lynch’s dreamlike imagery and weird americana landscapes, Carolina gracefully merges her own local sensibilities to re- imagine a panoramic, fictional soundtrack to an unmade road movie, creating a personal musical language made up of vintage pop songs, lush ambient soundscapes and West Coast lo-fi electronica. Her pursue of sonic exploration through modular synthesis techniques pushes her sound further out into a wider realm as she blends exotic alien-like melodies with her trademark soothing, shoe-gaze style voice. An album that seems to be floating gracefully and frozen in time…

 The album’s seven tracks were recorded live during her performance in a disused gas tank at the Keroxen festival in 2022 and counts with the special collaboration of her bandmate in Gaf César Chinarro on guitar. No doubt, Night-Time Birds is not the last we’ll hear from Carol demonstrating once again the varied and eclectic creative energy currently flowing from the Canary archipelago shows no sign of slowing down.

Carolina Machado – synths, samplers, voice
César Chinarro – Guitar
Produced by Mladen Kurajica

Recorded live at Espacio Cultural El Tanque and mixed by Jorge Lozano Mastered by Daniel Báez

Artwork by Pura Márquez

Tracks

  1. The End of the World
  2. Level Up
  3. Son
  4. Analog Sea
  5. Death Valley
  6. Night – Time Birds
  7. Océanos

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