![]() This article was originally published on December 09, 2020. You could still listen to the track via the streaming service embed above. Note: The audio for The ARTery's music premieres comes down after the track is released. “Little by little, I'm realizing that I don't have to hide any parts of myself when I share what I've made.”Īlisa Amador's " Red Balloon/Milonga Accidental" is out Dec. With a sound that NPR calls, a pitch-perfect rendition of my wildest dreams, her soulful singing, poetically incisive lyrics, and syncopated rhythms. “I'm in the process of making a home in my multitudes of music,” Amador says. Alisa Amador’s music is a synthesis of the many styles she’s voraciously absorbed: rock, jazz, funk and alternative folk, all wrapped in the spirit of the Latin music she grew up with. “Cuando sentiré mi hogar en mi voz?” she sings over a syncopated milonga rhythm. “Milonga Accidental,” which is written in Spanish, addresses some of these worries. “I just used to worry about fitting into a box,” Amador says. The experience was formative, as was “seeing how seriously my parents took their work as composers and interpreters and the intense presence that they had with each song,” Amador says.īut life as New England-based, Latinx folk singers was not without its complexities. The family used to go on tour together, with Alisa and her twin brother singing backup to her father’s bilingual children’s songs. The Cambridge singer grew up in a musical and multilingual household her parents, Brian and Rosi Amador, founded the Latin-roots band Sol y Canto. Amador seemed for all the world like a budding neo-soul belter in the mold of Amy Winehouse or Emily King now, she shares more with quiet, probing folk of singers like Adrianne Lenker or Joan Shelley.īut Amador says that, rather than reflect a shift in her songwriting, “Red Balloon” and “Milonga Accidental” are simply expressions of her polyglot influences. They’re quieter, more contemplative, than the songs on her 2018 EP “Salt,” which showcased a big voice and jazz-inflected melodies. “Red Balloon” and its accompanying “B-side” single, “Milonga Accidental,” are Amador’s first releases in nearly three years. “And the song just takes it right out to the surface.” “Songwriting, for me, is like going to the bottom of the well, like the thing you buried the deepest inside of you that's troubling you, but you don't want to face,” Amador says. Her upcoming EP, Narratives, is a six-song snapshot in time. Cover art for Alisa Amador's "Red Balloon/Milonga Accidental." (Courtesy)Īmador wrote “Red Balloon” to process her blossoming feelings for someone. The song is about the apprehension that comes with falling in love: it’s beautiful, but potentially destructive. “I pray it hits the beach,” she sings, as a string ensemble swells above whispery finger-picked guitar. Catching sight of a balloon rising in the distance, Amador worries it might land in the ocean. Label Services provided by Label Logic, Los Angeles, CAĪdditional pandemic recordings made from our homes in Boston, Maine, Germany, and Argentina.The first thought in Alisa Amador’s “Red Balloon” is fear. Mastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Mastering, Nashville, TN Mixed by Daniel Radin at Brighton Hills West Recording, Watertown, MA Produced by Daniel Radin and Alisa AmadorĮngineered by Daniel Radin and David Minehan at Woolly Mammoth Sound, Waltham, MA Kaiti Jones and Hayley Sabella: backing vocals on “Burnt and Broken” and “Together”ĭaniel Radin: additional percussion and backing vocalsīrian Amador, Rosi Amador, Zia Amador, Sadie Gustafson-Zook, Noah Harrington, Mica Ipiñazar, Kaiti Jones, Jamie Oshima, Facundo Parla, Daniel Radin, Hayley Sabella, Jacob Thompson, Alex Wilder Jamie Oshima: keys and lead guitar on “Alone” These cookies are necessary for the service to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. Noah Harrington: upright bass, electric bass, backing vocals You’re the first one that you talk to in the morning Ooh, just think about it with me for a moment I know I don’t have to play that part no more They can kill you with a kiss, but no more: “Let’s not open ourselves up to another strand of pain.”īut I don’t fall for shit like that no more So, what do we tell ourselves, now that we’ve found the flame? I know that there is not a hurry with this love, and that’s just what makes me scared. Most of the time, I wish that I could read your mind and I worry if that’s right. I knew that the timing wasn’t the right one, what a shame. ![]() “Don’t you open yourself up to another strand of pain.” What did I tell myself when I first felt the flame? It gives a taste of Amador’s sweet vocals and melodies, leaving the listener wanting more. Most of the time, I think I blindly feel around just to see how life will go.Īnd in our hearts, three words are forming, and now we’re both just scared. Alisa Amador’s Narratives does what an EP is meant to do.
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