NENA DACONTE is the work of two young and experienced artists based in Barcelona., that after touring for more than a year on the country's club circuits, They decide to shape their songs into a recording with which they present themselves to the public..
I HAVE LOST MY SHOES is the generic title of this collection of a selected ten songs that are, clearly, the perfect soundtrack for young people facing love, loneliness, the search for ideals, and other difficult emotional challenges that arise in the difficult time that goes from late adolescent to adult maturity that never quite arrives.
For it, NENA DACONTE dresses her songs with texts that move easily between magical realism, nihilism, and the fair, precise and sought-after narrowness in verses and simple vocabulary, typical of the followers of Pedro Salinas and other poets of the Generation 27 In our country, which makes all the lyrics of the songs included on the album evocatively close.. Sweet vocal harmonies, with revealing lyrics of everyday life, that tell us about the eternal dramas of the adult who is born in youth. Always with a poetic and sharp vision (with sharp sung intonation), on musical structures supported by the simple and adorned by the contemporary. All very natural, very human, with direct language in search of intelligent hearts.
Classic in its conception and rabidly modern in its spirit. The “less is more” you breathe throughout the compact. The compositions are short, fragile, sincere and direct. Ringing at the first. Without artifice. Like a sigh of fresh breath that shoots accurately to the heart. Just ignore that philosophy of simplicity, the impact produced by baroque and almost pictorial photographs, that evoke the image of a dream, in which the imaginary sharpens parallelisms.
With a foreign sound in music, his style is difficult to pigeonhole. They revere Pop-Rock classics like U2, Tom Petty, R.E.M. o Elvis Costello, combined with more contemporary tastes like RadioHead, in addition to moving among the most select tastes of national pop in recent years (Rosenvigne, Mikel Erentxun, Antonio Vega, inter alia), without giving up more organic and commercial sounds.
And NENA DACONTE discovers with this album something still little explored in this country of two poles.. That magical intermediate equidistant between the commercial and the alternative. Typical and sincere of a couple who has lived in a world that is not their own, warily guarding influences that are difficult to assert in certain scenarios.
Basic pop with rock notes in some cuts. Intimate with contemporary sound with some alternative edges and edges instrumented in classical, like luxury brooches, to the simplicity of non-basic resolution compositions, but minimal; that surprise with their solemn ease, for its graceful emotion, for its fantastic execution, for its pampered and neat production.
A promising start, for young people who want to touch their feet on the ground. Directly, without interference of any kind, and who bravely assume the complete production and artistic control of their debut work, with unusual maturity.
I LOST MY SHOES by NENA DACONTE goes on sale the next day 20 March 2006.