Damiak - Micalavera

Abe Dichi, who's musical works are released via the Damaik alias, is what you would classify as a true cosmopolitan musical entity. Spending most of his life moving between Mexico, Europe and the United States somehow gives ‘Micalavera’, his debut album for N5MD, an undercurrent of global method. Add in the mixing and mastering of Mio and Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bjork, Mum, Bonnie "Prince" Billy) at Greehouse Studios in Iceland and this compounds the borderless sense of musical place that ‘Micalavera’ embodies. With a title which roughly translates as "my skeleton", ‘Micalavera’ utilizes guitars, melodium, harmonium, violin, piano, field recordings, and live drums, as well as electronic elements, and edits that may recall similar moments from Sigurdsson's compatriots Mum and Blindfold, or even to the more delicate structures of Dntel. ‘Micalavera’ is an absorbing mix of many musical styles interwoven into a bright, affectionate, yet cohesive whole that features 12 vignettes of multi-cultural instrumentation, technique, and raw wondrous emotion.

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