Posts Tagged ‘Carlos Hernandez’

ANNA FOX ROCHINSKI (of Quilt) – ” No Better “

Posted: March 28, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Anna Fox Rochinski (of Psych indie rock band Quilt) has shared a new single titled “No Better.” It is the latest single released from her upcoming debut solo album, “Cherry”, which will be out on March 26th via Don Giovanni. 

Carlos Hernandez and Julian Fader (both of Ava Luna) produced Cherry. “Everybody’s Down.” It is the third single to be released from her upcoming album, Rochinski speaks about the concept behind the song in a press release: “‘Everybody’s Down’ is a song that’s meant to be a little abstract but is generally about feeling run down and bewildered by rampant complicity during catastrophic times. ‘Everybody’s Down’, including you and me. And yes, also, ‘down’ like bummed, if that speaks to you. And yes, also ‘down’ as in, just casually down to do something, like, down to go grab food with your homies or whatever. It’s a triple entendre. We all feel all of these things every day. It’s a lot. Literally all I can do anymore to stay sane is have a sense of humour and laugh at stuff. I am so much less randomly sentimental than I used to be, but I think it’s because I have learned what really deserves my love and attention.”

She adds: “There was a primordial version of this song that I brought in to [album producers] Carlos [Hernandez] and Julian [Fader], but in the studio, we would visit it at the end of the night after all our serious work was done and throw stuff at the wall to see what would stick. It was like a way to release tension, and we didn’t take it very seriously. We made this minimal, weird, scuzzy instrumental with bass, guitar, synth and programmed drums, and I then took this raw creation home and worked out the structure and the melody and lyrics. In the end, I fell in love with this song, much to my surprise.”

Quilt’s most recent album, Plaza, came out in 2016 on Mexican Summer. 

AVA LUNA – ” Moon 2 “

Posted: August 8, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Moon 2

On Moon 2 Ava Luna’s de facto band leader Carlos Hernandez steps back, leaving space for the rest of the band members to step up and step into roles they hadn’t occupied on previous albums.

Felicia Douglass (now a touring member of Dirty Projectors) worked with percussion and sampler, Julian Fader experimented with synths, nearly every band member ran the computer during recording sessions, and Becca Kauffman (aka performance artist Jennifer Vanilla) composed her first song for the group “On Its Side the Fallen Fire,” a deeply layered orchestral piece of kate bush grandeur meets julia holter reverie. compared with previous Ava Luna albums, Moon 2 has fewer sharp turns into dissonance, fewer celebratory guitar parts, none of Hernandez’s signature screams. nevertheless, the infectious buoyancy of “Deli run” and “Walking with an Enemy,” are warm and bright, and songs like “Centerline” and “Phoebe (set it off)” venture confidently into pop territory. the title track, paint ing the elation and tumult of a crush, is set against a swaggering reggae bassline and warbling kraftwerk synths. “it’s like, every sci-fi movie has a nightclub,” says Kauffman.

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NADINE – ” Oh My “

Posted: January 28, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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nadine oh my

Collaborative projects maintained from a distance are rather commonplace in today’s musical climate, but few retain the intimacy and ingenuity of nadine.  the three-piece is the creative byproduct of Nadia Hulett, part of the collective phantom posse, and Julian Fader and Carlos Hernandez, both of  Ava Luna.  though spread out across the country in different cities at different times, the trio linked up outside of Austin to cut oh my, an effortless, adventurous pop exercise in the form of a debut album.

Here to remind us that music is not just an audible experience, Minneapolis / New York’s Nadine make melodies that transcend acoustics. Their debut album Oh My is collection of sophisticated modern pop songs that resonate in the gaps, the space between deadlines and timelines. More akin to poetry set to music, Nadine is all about exploring feeling. Whilst most poets revel in the personal, Nadine’s process is collaborative whose core is singer Nadia Hulett (part of the loose collective Phantom Posse) and Julian Fader and Carlos Hernandez .

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The trio’s practice is marked by their commitment to playfulness, curiosity, and fluidity. Nadine’s songs have one foot standing firm in pop, but ebb and flow with exploration and experiment. Recorded over two years in Gravesend Studios in Brooklyn, NY and Dripping Springs in Austin, TX. Polyphonic melodies swing and gambol, instrumental layers take generous flourishes and unexpected turns with an ear to the wondrous and occasionally weird, crafting jazz-tinged lounge-pop all held together by Hulett’s characteristic vocals, strong with a sincerity and gentleness that holds the listener.

nadine’s debut is out today via father/daughter in the united states and memphis industries everywhere else.

AVA LUNA – ” Billz “

Posted: January 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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The seeds of Ava Luna’s latest album “Infinite-house” came about when the band was holed up in the unincorporated town of Benton, Miss. they happened upon an abandoned residence in the middle of the woods, which served a potent image throughout their writing process. It’s an appropriately spooky beginning for the Brooklyn quintet, whose handful of releases since their 2009 inception have tended toward the spectral and metaphysical—misremembered echoes of a delicate swirl of R&B,plus the ritualistic ecstasy of krautrock. But despite the album’s unsettling origins and the band’s otherworldly history, the lyrical interests of “Billz”, their first single from the record, are overwhelmingly practical.

“Who’s gonna pay my bills?” singer/guitarist Carlos Hernandez repeatedly cries amid a clatter of guitars and cymbals. The familiar question comes at the center of what’s otherwise a relatively straightforward love song, a surprisingly cynical meditation on the most utilitarian of concerns. The band’s instrumental attack, built around a couple of contorted guitar leads and buoyant keyboard lines, remains idiosyncratic, but it strips back a fair amount of the sonic clutter to foreground Hernandez’ vocal and the practicality of his message.