Nina Garcia Bye Bye Bird

After a decade of performing concerts under the Mariachi guise, NinaGarcia has finally unveiled her unique approach in Bye Bye Bird, her first album underher name. Bye Bye Bird is her second solo album, to be released by Ideologic Organ inFebruary 2025.With no pretence or demonstration, the album is a captivating blend ofchiaroscuro, melodies, and raw emotion.Nina Garcia's album takes on an almost documentary-like quality byadopting a simple approach to gesture and sound recording. It offers a candidportrayal of a moment, a lack, a state, and a breathtaking energy. With ostinato as heronly credo, Nina Garcia's music is an experiment in freedom, where the peaks answerthe abysses, and the power of movement and the emotion of sound serves as hercompass.From very short (01:28) to never very long (07:34), the eight tracks that makeup this set explore a moment, a space, a mechanism, an intention or a way of doingthings. As a common feature of almost all these pieces (all but one, the last), NinaGarcia explores a new technique. She adds to her instrumentation, reduced to theessentials (a guitar, a pedal and an amp), an electromagnetic microphone which, whenheld in hand, makes it possible to listen in on the exact zones where the vibration ofthe string creates a sound amid vast spaces of silence. The guitar is unplugged, andthe body/instrument relationship changes in dimension.In this series of variations, you can get caught up in masses of noise seen fromvery, very close up, evocations of melodies in the making, feedback on ridgelines,pulsations that hold their own, modulations weakened by exhaustion and harmonicbursts that hint at better days to come.Neither hopelessly chthonic nor beatifically ethereal, Bye Bye Bird is a sumof musical pieces that make a whole and give voice to echoes of what has been, thepresence of what is and the hope of what will be, a record movement in the form offlight and salvation.Since 2015, Nina Garcia has been researching and creati...