Jose Gonzalez
Veneer
Hidden Agenda 2005
Jose Gonzalez is a Swedish musician of Argentinean origin, the peculiar condition in part explains its peculiar sound, influenced by the musicians heard in his adolescence and youth, especially British pop and rock, as the music they heard their parents, basically folk and rock in Spanish, Nueva Trova, Silvio Rodríguez ...
Though it may seem difficult to assimilate in the music of Jose Gonzalez can observe all these influences ranging from intimate folk of Nick Drake, which powerfully recalled, sounds closer to Bossa or Silvio Rodriguez. All this in a first job, "Veneer," compact and dazzling.
Although the album was released in Sweden in 2003, it was not until two years later when he came to the UK market, where thanks to a pair of brilliant marketing coups (their version of The Knife "Heartbeats" sounded an announcement Sony) started to rise as the foam on the charts. The music of Jose Gonzalez, however, has no operating business. It sounds so pure, so genuine, so real that certainly frightening. Accompanied only by a classical guitar, and her voice has created some of the most heartbreaking songs that have been heard in years. His playing is one of the main links with Nick Drake, interprets an unorthodox technique, minimalist and accurate. His voice, deep, warm and close contributes to an atmosphere particularly intimate.
Jose Gonzalez's music is designed to embellish these moments of solitude that we all suffer and that some have learned to enjoy, to go with the flow of thoughts and dreams on those nights without guidance and without end.
While the album is really compact and has no issues filling, there are some that stand out above the rest. In the aforementioned "Heartbeats", a delicious charged issue of sensitivity, adding that other issues would also round and compelling as "Crosses", "Lovestain" or "Remain" that grow to the listener with a breathtaking majesty.
Jose Gonzalez has, apart from its fledgling solo career, several projects it his warm voice and his compositions. He has worked with a couple of songs on the latest album from Zero 7, a group of British Trip Hop, and also has his own band, Juniper, which should publish album this year, so we must be alert to the movements of this musician who boast truly interesting.
