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La Siembra, La Espera Y La Cosecha

by Rauelsson

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1.
Debutantes 05:27
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2.
El Rio De Los Nudos 04:22
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3.
La Calma 03:48
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4.
Cambio De Mar 01:28
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5.
Casi La Cosecha 03:11
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6.
El Desierto De Las Palmas 05:10
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7.
Columpios 04:10
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8.
Palidez (Un Aviso) 03:52
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9.
Raices (Otro Aviso) 03:31
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10.
Lápices Sin Punta 04:04
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11.
Cosidos 04:11
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In ‘La Siembra, la Espera y la Cosecha’, Rauelsson expands his inviting sense of melody and arrangement yet the organic construct of its songs remains based on his willingness to work with a simple, though evocative, palette of acoustic ingredients. Produced by Portland’s finest Adam Selzer (M.Ward, The Decemberists, Mirah, Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond, etc.) and co-produced by Dave Depper and Raúl, the album presents a noble collection of eleven songs which grandeur resides primarily on their well captured subtle sensibility. With emotive, dynamic transitions between austere to rich, sombre to bright territories, the production’s prevailing mission was to respect the original conception of the album: a cohesive musical and thematic observation of the fragility of life and the immenseness of love as a response to such fragility. Since nature and its untamed energy provided a lyrical and sonic motif to the majority of these tracks, an organic, earthy sound corresponded.

The core of the album was recorded at Type Foundry, Portland, OR, during the fall/winter of 08/09, with Dave Depper (Jolie Holland, Loch Lomond, Norfolk and Western, etc.) and Rachel Blumberg (M.Ward, Jolie Holland, Mirah, Norfolk and Western, etc.) as the spine of this vertebrate ensemble. Without much rehearsal or pre-production, Dave and Rachel followed their intuition and tracked most of their material live to a 2” tape machine, layering pianos, bells, bass and percussion over Raúl’s fingerpicked nylon and acoustic guitars. Reel-to- reel magnetic tapes awaited for Raúl’s return as, back in Spain, he retreated in the Mediterranean country side to concentrate on lyrics. Surrounded by a mountainous scenario, with a small recording equipment, he tracked most of his vocal parts in ancient stone-walled houses, searching for spaces where natural reverb could propel words and sounds and integrate with the music as another instrument. Returned to Portland, Raúl worked with Adam for a couple of weeks at Type Foundry on finishing and mixing these songs. During those days, the springtime blossoms brought friends/HUSH cohorts to the studio, and they contributed with vocals (Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond’s Ritchie Young), strings (Amanda Lawrence, Heather W. Broderick) and other instrumentation that spooled together into a cohesive whole. ‘La Siembra, la Espera y la Cosecha’ also features cameos by singer-songwriter compatriots Santi Campos and Julio de la Rosa.

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released January 12, 2010

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