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bRUNA is Barcelona based young artist and he’s really an absolute growing name in Spanish electronica scene. As a DJ his talent was recognized opening Sonar 2006 and next year he was selected for the Red Bull Academy Toronto. Since then he has been focusing his interests in making music more than in playing other’s stuff.

Now spa.RK has the honor to present his first album and we are sure that is’t gonna make waves. With just a couple of tracks on his myspace, he became rapidly a favorite of local critics and the most anticipated name in the press. Finally he delivered a 12” for Marc Marzenit’s Paradigma Musik label (Heartbreak EP, exploring his interest on the more danceable sounds of his music, but always melancholic, personal and elegant) that has been very well received. So now is the moment to prove his value in this CD. First word to come to our mind is passionate: in this electronica world full of promenairs and dilettantes, bRUNA establish himself as an absolute music lover, and without absurd detours he goes straight to the bone, to make the only music he wants to make, the only music that really commits yourself in the listening and the experience of loving it.

With a lot of well distilled influences and a master work in composition, bRUNA is everything he has been listening since he was a kid and everything that music can be nowadays: no prejudices, no style boundaries constrain his work and the result is an album absolutely enjoyable, addictive till the end of the day, concise and extremely concentrated. Thirty minutes with no low moments, full of intensity and brightness. This way you can fulfill the hunger it leaves at the end of the listening and you are more than ready to listen to it again!

"El caso de bRUNA estaba aún a examen y su debut en largo - o mejor dicho, en no muy largo, pues dura 28 minutos de ideas concentradas y desprovistas de cualquier redundancia - confirma lo esperado: que si bien todavía es una voz en evolución, es una voz diferente a todo lo que, en música electrónica, se está haciendo aquí -y parte del extranjero. Para empezar, no es habitual que alguien que maneje un ordenador se vuelque emocionalmente de la manera en que lo hace bRUNA (Carles Guajardo, según su DNI), casi hasta el extremo de la confesión terapéutica. Títulos como "How to seek answers from signals", "As something reminds of a past failure", "I need you (out of my head)" o "I knew it would never last" indican que esto es mucho más que un disco: es un ajuste de cuentas, o una reflexión íntima sobre cuestiones que afectan a la intimidad, y eso sitúa a quien las expresa en la comprometida posición de desnudar sentimientos y mostrar flaquezas. Se percibe, por una parte, que bRUNA está educado musicalmente en el pop confesional - se reconoce fan de Elliott Smith, por ejemplo-, y también que no se toma lo de hacer música como un pasatiempo: cada ritmo que arma, cada melodía que edifica, cada sonido que da por bueno, es como si su corazón fuera una barra de pan caliente a la que le van robando migas a pellizcos." (Javier Blánquez. Go)

 

"Pero más allá de la maestría que bRUNA demuestra en el manejo de esas dos visiones (tanta que resulta muy fácil olvidar que éste es un disco de debut), lo que convierte a “And It Matters To Me To See You Smiling” en sobresaliente es su capacidad para conjurar estados de ánimo, para establecer un recorrido sentimental en el que se suceden la euforia y la melancolía, la intimidad y la extroversión, el mensaje críptico y la emoción a flor de piel, en el que flota la nostalgia de un tiempo pasado y feliz." (Vidal Romero. Playground Mag)

 

bRUNA

discography

• tracklist
• 01. THE INNOCENCE MISSION
  
• 02. ANDAARI
• 03. FORGIVENESS
  
• 04. CROSSED MESSAGES
  
• 05. HOW TO SEEK ANSWERS FROM SIGNALS
• 06. LOST AND FOUND
• 07. AS SOMETHING REMINDS OF A PAST FAILURE
  
• 08. IT COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER
• 09. FOR THE DAY WE MET
• 10. I NEED YOU (OUT OF MY HEAD)
• 11. SETTLE FOR NOTHING LESS
• 12. I KNEW IT WOULD NEVER LAST
• 13. DON'T GIVE UP
• 14. ABOUT DEALING WITH PRIVATE EMOTIONS
• 15. PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME SORRY
• 16. 1989
  

• more releases (selected)
• "Heartbreak EP" (Paradigma Musik 2009)
  "From the Deep. Compilation" (Paradigma Musik 2009)
  

• gigs
• 05/04/2010
  a taste of sonar - london, uk
  

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