Do we like Juana Molina?

she is great live

Her new EP rocks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rSZ-t8e0o0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNRdjuUxUE

good stuff, i quite liked halo but this seems something different.

a concert she'd planned for tonight was cancelled due to coronavirus, so she's livestreaming it tonight -- pretty sick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNu1ievAbek

North America tour happening in April and May

I lost touch with her music and just heard her punk "For Fun" ep tonight. Re her current tour she says:

during the lockdown i dove in some sort of contemplative state. time passed and there i was sitting outside by a fire pit in the garden, just thinking and looking at the sky. everything was so quiet and pristine. and so was i. it took me a long time to be able to play or do other things.

one day someone asked me if i wanted to play a live show via streaming and there was the reason to go back. it was like in the old times, when i was playing for hours improvising over and over on the same song. and then a question that have asked myself for years: why is that i never do this live? why being so structured and not get lost on stage like i do when i'm on my own at home. finally i decided to not die without doing it. and i did. and it was the best i could have done.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/juana-molina-announces-spring-solo-tour/

I also haven't heard her live in Mexico album from just before the pandemic in early 2020

Segundo album has been reissued and she did some live trio collaborations in Japan (I think) with Terry Riley and Jeff Mills.

The Anrmal 2020 live in Mexico release has some punkier, noisier cuts .

Molina tells City Paper that previously, with her band, “the arrangements were fixed, and every night we played the same.” On this tour, Molina will “start a song as usual, and then [I] don’t know exactly how it’ll finish.”

Molina solo tour 2022
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/554253/juana-molina-from-argentine-tv-star-to-experimental-folker/

Saw her solo DC gig last night. Pretty experimental. She uses her keyboard and pedals and loops and repeats her vocals or instrumental sounds and sometimes distorts her vocals. I liked the songs that were the most rhythmic and tuneful.

Killer set in Seattle last night. A tiny room & she had the audience captive every minute.

I keep confusing Juana Molina and Javiera Mena, probably because I've only heard the latter

Something I wasn’t prepared for, and which definitely made the night better, is how funny she is.

Her comic actress roots are still there at times

I would love to see her, v jealous of you both

oh hey, i was there too, she was great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvkdwcjl53g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLuarhVj4DM

RFI: Latina artist with similar number that was kind of an Other Music favorite for a hot minute. That’s all I got, sorry.

Lucrecia Dalt?