Las Resenas Casuales. Oso Leone "Mokragora"

Oso Leone "Mokragora" (p)2013 Foehn Records

Now I regret purchasing the vinyl turntable a bit too late. I did it this year's May, but it was March when we (my couple Tanya & me) were visiting Barcelona. During this visit I purchased the CD version of this album right from the hands of Marc Campillo, the head of Foehn Records. I'd better think twice before as  this album is clearly of that 'sit and listen' kind that perfectly fits for the vinyl.

The Mallorcan band plays the structurally complicated cinematic sadcore that incorporates other genres like avant-pop, folk, acid jazz or psychedelia. The album's name corresponds (I don't know why) with the Serbian village of Mokra Gora while the songs are named after various species of plants - from well-known ficuses or cactuses to more obscure clivias and monsteras.

It may sound pretty strange, but from the first listen I had a feeling of "Mokragora" as of being fully instrumental. The songs have their lyrics but the vocals are here not for words and meanings - they're here for sounds and feelings. Just imagine yourself stepping into the forest at the dawn carefully moving the cold branches apart to pave your way, and occasionally touching the spider's web with the drops of water condensed at the corners of the web, and they fall over you... Oso Leone create such the ethereal constructions with their music, and the words are falling from above like the raindrops, so these hypnotic landascapes are rather rainy ones.
"Mokragora" washes over you leaving you covered by the thick morning fog. Inventive and truly original, this album is definitely one of the best albums of 2010's.

The best tracks: Ficus, Alcaria, Monstera