The Brooklyn label Wharf Cat Records has historically never been short on unconventional artists, but this time they’ve really pushed the boundaries of modern day indie rock with this third album in the stunning trilogy from Miami native and New York resident Horoscope.<\/p>\n
The recording moniker of Rene J. Nunez-Cabrera, as Horoscope, the eclectic artist brings traditional Cuban music influences to this extremely abstract and autobiographical peek into the mind of an iconoclastic thinker. <\/p>\n
\u201cCintura\u201d starts the listen with tribal drumming and a raw recording of distant vocals, and \u201cEpiphany Steps\u201d follows with experimental hissing and ambience that’s as perplexing as it is engaging.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, \u201cDescarga #1\u201d recruits wandering, spacey sounds and shrieked vocals alongside congas and frequencies that might startle your dog, while \u201cVioletas Graphica\u201d moves with calculated, hypnotic droning.<\/p>\n
The back half of the record is equally unusual. First come the scattered effects of \u201cBesa El Anillo Con Tudo Tu Alma,\u201d where soft chanting vocals blur into what almost sounds like an alien craft landing on a distant planet. Next up is \u201cQUANDO TU,\u201d which at over 6 minutes, reels in all sorts of aberrant noises, including haunting, whispered voices. <\/p>\n
Deeper cuts yield the busy \u201cLabios De Cobre Pintado De Blanco,\u201d which unfolds like the backdrop to an operation in a factory that exists in another dimension, and the seemingly only ‘normal’ tune, \u201cCorazon,\u201d which recruits soft, elegant singing for a mere 30 seconds of a cappella. \u201cMaraca Llena De Pledras De Tu Nacimento\u201d ends the listen with wild horns, fuzzy textures, and manipulated vocals on an intimidating yet fascinating conclusion to a very unorthodox record.<\/p>\n
Though Nunez-Cabrera handles synth, tape, clave, effects,, and singing on Carne.,<\/i> his friends contribute saxophone, vibraphone, and additional vocals \u2013 though, really, the ingredients listed don’t even come to describing the compositions here, as Horoscope finds entirely new territories to construct his intimate, innovative vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10423],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45719","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-horoscope","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45719"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45719"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}