"No light is really what matters are the twelve seconds of darkness." So does his statement of intent Jorge Drexler on his new album, released last September. His 12 seconds of darkness become fourteen tracks (12 and two bonus) that carry the world of Drexler in recent months and we moved, completely open, the ups and downs, sorrows and disappointments of his recent divorce. Yes, a sad album, but it also leaves a glimmer of hope (as the song Heal ) and a desire for new life that appears as a watermark behind each song: "Your heart will heal, will to heal and go back to crack. "
Drexler himself calls it his album more "puzzling", and not only that, different. New rhythms, new ways of doing, but deep down always Drexler. I will not say he has matured, which got a long time, but that these 12 seconds are deeply intimate and travel all mood marked by doubt and irrelevance. Drexler writes to clarify that Life is more complex than it seems .
His lyrics, and the time of writing, are jumping all over the globe, from Cape Polonio, from which the beacon that helps give title ( between beam and beam sea is 12 seconds in darkness), to Mexico or the air, as many of the songs are written in flight between Madrid and some parts or even an airport. A globality was already present in their subjects, Everything is transformed as , and now repeated in a less friendly and more critical. Drexler goes from the global to the globalization of Disneyland, a song about the conjunction of the planet and encounters that occur therein. The current world synergy also leads it to denounce the dangers of the new Pandora's box: the Internet and threat to fidelity in Infidelity in the information age a song full of sound effects where the illusion ends the machine.
But not only innovation in music, but also in his verse. This album is poetry with each chord. Poetry that plays with the accents, like the song Transoceanic , antepenultimate all of it, and reminds us how words logic, tears, languid, melancholy, lucid and beautiful can be quoted in the same song without screeching, without harming the melody.
are 12 seconds to make it short and time goes so fast ... Yes, twelve seconds bit recommended for those who do not want to think, to ask the Sister certainly a night's rest ... Because if Drexler is studied and bare on this disc, it also makes us look a little inward, something that this fast life we \u200b\u200bhave little accustomed.
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