- Singer-songwriter
- Folk punk
- Punk folk
- Alt-folk
- Mexicana
Comment:
Alan Vargas aka Alan
Rèvolte is a musician from Mexico whose 10-track issue is an
attention-getting blend of Spanish-sung lyrics, intense acoustic
guitar strums all of that predominantly being managed in a
straightforward approach.
The straightforward approach
over there does
mean it is played with great fervour and infectious
Latin temperament though
wherein one can discern many changes in chords and timbres and
rhythms. Sometimes his guitar play involves more spacey patches with
the slowed-down rhythm (at
Réquiem
para un Poeta).
Here and there he used to
employ female voices to add extra tones and moods to the mix. The
final track
La Marcha de
los Árboles makes also
difference because of exploiting immersive, and minor tones to
accentuate his ability to embrace a more wide spectre (thereby
reminding of such experimental folk acts
as Ben Chasny`s Six Organs Of Admittance, Espers,
and Akron/Family, and through aesthetic predecessor lineage the
artists of the so-called American Primitivism, for
instance). The
cover print is cute and nice because of resonating with the substance
of the music. There is no need to added the animal-based drawings in
minimal mode used to make
sense at any time. These
solid 24 minutes are a part
of the discography of Naciòn
Libre,
the Mexican
imprint of which stylistic
range is quite broad (from
hardcore/punk to stoner and doom to cyberpunk and crust).
