Imagine the gentle turn of a kaleidoscope; numerous colourful fragments in a picture of which you try to follow all at once, yet in the blink of an eye your new image is before you.
‘Sa Fosca’ seems to draw you in with its mystery; long sustained synths and under plucking in a syncopated rhythm like that of an old steam train. A beautiful jazz fusion guitar run, its intensity and indulgence reminding one of Pat Metheney, emerges along with twinkling high pitched twangs, eventually leading you into the main groove where the picture becomes crystal clear. The beauty of ‘Sa Fosca’ is in its clairvoyance. Having been produced as early as 1989, Joan Bibiloni creates a harmonious marriage of a strong essence of jazz fusion with electronic influences. The track is one of ten collected for the album El Sur, showcasing a stimulating mixed bag of workings from Bibiloni between 1984 to 1991 and is the third release on Music From Memory, run by Amsterdam’s Red Light Records. We can’t recommend this highly enough.
El Sur is available now from Music From Memory’s website. Stream clips of the whole album here, listen to ‘Sa Fosca’ in full here and keep your ear to the ground about the next MFM releases with Young Marco’s side project Gaussian Curve. It’s quite sensational!
