bRUNA - And It Matters To Me To See You Smiling (Spa.rk, 2009)

mp3 / 320 / 60mb / rs | rel jul 09

...and i'm smiling!! 26 min of happiness.

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''And It Matters to Me to See You Smiling'' is the record we've been waiting for the last 12 months: a young Barcelona artist and a new growing name in Spanish electronica scene, bRUNA, that finally delivers his passionate debut album for spa.RK. With just a couple of tracks on Myspace, he became rapidly a favorite of local critics and the most anticipated name in the Spanish press, playing three times at famous Sonar festival, being selected for Red Bull Academy Toronto and delivering a gorgeous 12" for Marc Marzenit's Paradigma Musik label.

Now spa.RK has the honor to present his debut album and we knew that the very best was still to come! The first thing we loved about Carles, the young man behind bRUNA, is his passion: passionate electronics done with real love, straight to the bone, without unnecessary detours, with melodies that remain stuck to the soul and a pop vibe that makes this short butemotionally intense album an addictive and intimate experience.

Nursed in the most exquisite electronics and in the most intense pop, bRUNA?s music breathes orchestral magnificence, crepuscular electronics and powerful pop à la Creation: emotion to the limit. bRUNA is also a good example of the generational renewal on the electronica scene, led by those that grew up with it and that face it not like something a la mode, but like a particular language. Aphex Twin, yes, but even more James Holden and Kettel.

Nowadays, when it?s easy to find dispersion prevailing over concretion (72 minutes albums, one-hour long free-downloadable EPs), Carles presents ''And It Matters to Me to See You Smiling'', an old-style album that looks radically modern to us: 28 minutes, no low moments, full of a contagious vitality, ultrashort songs, based on a strong conceptual structure basis, where nothing exceeds and nothing lacks and that demonstrates his clarity of ideas and the solid condition of his discourse. Absolutely addictive.