Descrizione:
Paul Pèrrim – Itara (2025)
Review by Jim Marks:
Paul Pèrrim is a guitarist and music educator from Spain (more specifically, the Canary Islands) whose work combines elements of folk and experimental music, featuring fingerpicking on both acoustic and electric instruments and the use of electronics and found sounds. Itara, his first full-length studio release under his own name (he has also recorded as Transistor Eye), is a set of ten original compositions that tend toward minimalism but make use of a fairly wide range of techniques and approaches while maintaining a consistent feel. The pieces are relatively concise, but, over a total running time of just 35 minutes, Pèrrim covers a lot of ground, and each track has a distinct identity. The opener, “Arkusmaliketus,” starts off with a burst of electronic buzzes and bleeps into which an acoustic guitar gradually asserts itself before being swallowed up again by what sounds like an organ. On “Olekta,” field recordings of nature, reverse effects, and the brief appearance of what sounds like a banjo provide a backdrop for acoustic explorations juxtaposing strums and gentle plucking. Flamenco touches enliven “Barbarchu,” the longest of the pieces, which unfurls like a journey through high desert with a burst of energy near the end. “Xileikan” and “Sachcas” feature meditative electric guitar played clean; the former dissolves into field recordings and the latter into a peaceful electronic twilight. Elsewhere, what sounds like a slide echoes through the Middle Eastern-tinged “Deiman,” and the electric playing on “Furcarkis” brings to mind Henry Kaiser. On other tracks, the guitar takes a backseat to the electronics or is completely submerged. On “Xankenofa” and “Moussell,” no guitar is apparent, while on “Durrissan,” the guitar is swathed in echo and processed to the point of sounding almost like a jaw harp. Pèrrim’s style and approach are distinctive but will appeal to those who appreciate the work of, for instance, Jessica Ackerley, Jordan Perry, and Mariano Rodriguez. The titles of the tunes seem to be words made up by the artist or based on terms that are unsearchable in English, though the title of the album means various things in various languages. In any case, the titles cast the songs as imagined folklore from a mysterious and beautiful land that is well worth visiting. — tumblr
Track List:
01 - Arkusmaliketus
02 - Furcarkis
03 - Xankenofa
04 - Olekta
05 - Xileikan
06 - Durrisan
07 - Deiman
08 - Barbarchu
09 - Mousell
10 - Sachsas
Media Report:
Genre: alternative folk
Origin: Spain 
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)
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