As a first post of 2008 I decided to revisit an album that managed to climb into my top 11 of the year 2007 and I've never spoken. Ola Podrida is a musical project led by David Wingo, hitherto best known for his work as creator of soundtracks for American independent films. He has composed music include Snow Angels, Guatemalan Handshake or All the Real Girls, all directed by David Gordon Green. Yeah, me either. Anyway this American released confidentially my favorite album of delicate folk of last year. Released in May, it was only an hour late November or specialized sites already beginning to compile their year-end lists that I discovered his music. Love at first sight and welcome after the slight disappointment for me was the last Iron & Wine (with whom comparisons are inevitable). David Wingo and his gang face is with this first album for the first time in the foreground. More questions to accompany the images of another, music is now the sole focus. Cinema however, is never very far because they have borrowed some techniques of narration. All the songs are true stories in which Wingo likes the scene ("The Car crashed, everybody was OK"), describe the atmosphere ("Sleeping Dogs Out in the yard, cats upon the Roof") create action scenes (the character of "Cindy" who s'engoufre in a burning building for example) and provide melodic twists. He accompanies his singing whispered orchestrations discrete acoustic guitar. Ola Podrida is a group but most titles are yet in a very stripped register where the only other instrument is a tambourine or maracasses giving rhythm. By reaching the ear is found, however, other instruments subtly brought. A second guitar intertwined, a third, a few notes of piano or organ, a flute, which all come to overshadow the benefit of all. Some tracks like "Lost and Found" or "Jordanna" yet not hesitate to break the stillness that had settled. The machine packs and David Wingo slightly hoarse offering the listener a welcome diversity, making the peace to follow all the more enjoyable. With such qualities, they are welcome to make the soundtrack of my life when they want.
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