Joaquín Cornejo - Cabuya (Shika Shika)
- The Slow Music Movement
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Joaquin Cornejo has TSMM form, his Vision Versions dubification of Markandeya being a particular favourite, but as well as reggae credentials he’s also got a fondness for fusing pan-Latin sounds with star gazing electronica, and for this new LP on the reliable Shika Shika label he’s marshalled quite the ensemble, made them some sandwiches and packed them off on a cosmic cruise.
The low gravity “Rios Voladores“ sees him supplying far out synths as well as picking up his acoustic guitar to lay down a harp like motif for the sweet, spirit world vocals of “Mowes“ to haunt. If the family name is anything to go by his brother pops in from his bedroom to lay down the bass to accompany the distant percussion and fauna that inhabit “Pedalai”, as Cornejo conjures a piano meditation that floats through the speakers and hangs in the air for you to contemplate.
“Tulsi” lulls you into a sense of becalmed spiritual jazz security before some skittering beats try to catapult the tune onto the dance floor but are restrained by the ethereal vocals and ambient designs of the rest of the musicians, this is music for the hips and/or the head. His dub chops get an airing on “Cabuya”, its rather awkward riddim diverted through a smokey echo chamber. “Nai” is something of a cutting room floor interlude albeit with a pleasant vibe, before he departs this sonic chapter and quite possibly the planet with “Wei“, the perfect cosmic outro to a great EP.
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