Dioxadol Borges – Siconauta Tourist Class (2016)
- Psychedelic
- Improvised music
- Acid pop
- New Age
- Avant-garde
- Experimental pop
- Mood
music
- Avant-pop
Comment:
before having any factual knowledge about this Uruguayan artist while
having listened to this 13-track in a row for many times I rather
would have thought of Dioxadol Borges as an artist from Chicago, the
home city for pan y rosas discos. Chicago, Illinois, USA is being
known due to many experimental music and improvised music scenes, one
of them is improvised music/free jazz scene involving such artists as
Isotope 217, Brokeback, David Grubbs, Chicago Underground Duo,
Chicago Underground Orchestra if to name some well-known ones. In
fact, all these artists are genre-fluid, and the same could be said
about Dioxadol Borges. Roughly, it could be said the issue is heavily
electronic keyboard-driven being accompanied by different sorts of
rhythms. At times it is quite laid-back and New Age-y, sometimes
driven by more aggressive beats and sonic effects and studio
trickery. Those more placid moments remind of another South American
(an Argentinian living in Brazil) artist Humberto Luis Schenone, and
early albums by Dave Keifer aka Cagey House. Within those more
tumultuous moments one can enjoy bold drumming and acidic keyboard
beams and mutant, machine-repressed vocals engulfing you in an
exuberant way (for instance, at tecnochipland). In a word, the
result is somehow chill and mirthful to be adeptly reconciled. It depicts a balanced and graceful motion. Solid
work.
