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Let's talk about the weather. About how the weather and music are similar. The weather is always around us; it can make us melancholy like rain slipping down a windowpane, it can cheer us like the sun warming the asphalt. The perfect setting for listening to the music of Sonia Brex is a warm summer evening in a big city. When the day isn't quite over but the night hasn't quite begun. When rays of red-orange sun fall through the gaps between tall buildings and the concrete underfoot is still warm. A knowing innocence runs through the songs on the album "Naif", an ease which remains even when the music slows to a more melancholy mood, as in the soft rhythms of "Lampada" or the smoothly introverted title track "Naif". And even a musical hommage to horror film director George Romero flows from the hands of zombie film fan Sonia Brex with relaxed serenity.
"Naif" is an album glowing with unshakable optimism. It's also there as she opens up the music to include influences from around the world - at times she whispers like Astrud Gilberto over a gentle bossa nova rhythm, then she playfully covers the 1940's classic from the USA "A Little Bird Told Me". The listener stumbles over slivers from Chinese opera and 70's Italian film soundtracks, a humming jaw harp, the traditional Italian tarantella dance or a dissected jazz sax solo layered over elegantly shuffling beats. Beats is an appropriate catchword, electronic music being the basis of her album. Synthesizer drones and digital bass drums set the pace. Sonia Brex takes full advantage of the benefits the genre offers. Electronic music is at its best when it sets everything in relation to everything else. A master of this approach is Matthew Herbert. His influence can be heard clearly on "Naif". |
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Country of production. Germany / Released. 2010 |
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Rights: Please contact Bettina Schasse De Araujo, who takes care of all publishing, licensing and legal affairs. |
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