La Bien Querida - Prededitacion Nocturnidad y Alevosia - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Magik Sounds of The Pine Hill Haints (KLP254), ventures softly into the cool, dark whisper of the haunted south. Short, tight spun rhymes about silver quarters and vampires come from a late evening session in a small pink house in south Alabama, located next to an old Native American mound of shells and bones, recorded at low volume with red eyes and open windows. This is the 4th Halloween dance party long player the Haints have cut for K.

The circle is closing. That triple EP promised great things. The reviews, the listeners' reactions, and the positions on both Spanish and American music lists (Rockdelux, where it appeared in various categories, including listeners' choice, song, video... ABC, Astredu Pop, Mindies, Notodo, Diario Crítica, América Económica, etc) all indicated such. The album was marked by three sixes - October 6th, 2014, January 6th, 2015, and March 6th, 2015, the dates of each of the EPs - and by a series of audiovisuals directed by Juanma Carrillo which contained a very special mystery. The perfect plot, we even called it. And here is the squaring of the circle InchPremeditación, Nocturnidad y AlevosíaInch on DVD, with the three parts of the movie together, various videoclips, a making of, and a CD of remixes. Let's take this step by step.

The album isn't really as rugged as they make it sound, though it does feel completely different from La Bien Querida's past work. For example, the opening track is a solid techno, close to acid-house (InchArenas MovedizasInch), which is lit up by Ana, sweet and robotic, intoning a spiraling melody that seems to invent a spaced-out flamenco. You could even say they take LOS PLANETAS' experiment with interpreting flamenco through kraut-rock to the extreme. The result is fascinating because it maintains Ana's magical, naïve serenity. InchHechiceraInch could pass for a folk-song from the mountains of Malaga, interpreted with a total kraut-rock assimilation, from KRAFTWERK to KLF, from SILVER APPLES to NEON INDIAN. Starting from a similar base, InchAuroraInch is like a flamenco song that exchanges the lament for Ana's sweet fragility and keeps it's ability to be chilling, above all when the guitars take the psychedelic flamenco to the orbits of space-rock.