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After a decade of performing concerts under the Mariachi guise, Nina Garcia has finally unveiled her unique approach in 'Bye Bye Bird', her first album under her name.

With no pretence or demonstration, the album is a captivating blend of chiaroscuro, melodies, and raw emotion. Nina Garcia’s album takes on an almost documentary-like quality by adopting a simple approach to gesture and sound recording. It offers a candid portrayal of a moment, a lack, a state, and a breathtaking energy. With ostinato as her only credo, Nina Garcia’s music is an experiment in freedom, where the peaks answer the abysses, and the power of movement and the emotion of sound serves as her compass.

From very short to never very long, the eight tracks that make up this set explore a moment, a space, a mechanism, an intention or a way of doing things. As a common feature of almost all these pieces (all but one, the last), Nina Garcia explores a new technique. She adds to her instrumentation, reduced to the essentials (a guitar, a pedal and an amp), an electromagnetic microphone which, when held in hand, makes it possible to listen in on the exact zones where the vibration of the string creates a sound amid vast spaces of silence. The guitar is unplugged, and the body/instrument relationship changes in dimension.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bye Bye Bird
2. Le Leurre
3. Ballade Des Souffles
4. Pick-up Tentative
5. Dans L’alios
6. Harsh Hopping
7. Aubé
8. Whistling Memories