Ubaldo - Casa

Slow on the uptake here, but a number of particularly reverential testimonials have shown me the light. So here i am again, showing up late with just what you might already have... Casa is the third record by Brussels-based Spanish ex-pat, Andreu G. Serra, and is said to be a meditation on the meaning and understanding of 'home', Serra having experienced somewhat of an itinerant existence the past few years. What that translates to here is a collection of drone-led miniatures, glitched tones, the odd american primitive style guitar abstraction, and occasional vocal contributions. It's a nebulous, often eerie listen, a series of nimbostratus clouds pregnant with inscrutable meaning, just a touch out of reach. In this fashion, it does a good job of communicating the notion of displacement and the experience of the diaspora, supple and ethereal compositions that billow and breathe with their own strange, independent life. Hard to pin down just exactly what this is like, fans of the recent Francis Plagne and Romeo Porier records will devour this, while there's certainly aspects of Hecker and Kali Malone, albeit much softer to the touch. And when Serra sings or 'plays' guitar, there's a folk-like intimacy rarely seen in the experimental/electronic world. Future classic status assured.