juana molina

exhalo

EXHALO

juana molina

EXHALO juana molina

10” AND 12” VINYL
PRESSED AT 45 RPM WITH 4 RECORDINGS
(3 OF THEM PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
FROM “HALO” SESSIONS.


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Sonamos and Little Butterfly Records presents: EXHALO. Halo's last breath.

Released in May 2017, Halo is to date the latest LP of new music released by Juana Molina.

Recorded between her studio in the town of Pacheco (in the suburbs of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Sonic Ranch in Texas (United States), Halo represented a step forward towards the sonic-experimental abyss that characterizes the work of the unclassifiable Argentine artist. In addition, in songs such as “Paraguaya” —which opens the album—, “Cosoco” or “Estalacticas” Juana's repertoire has since found three central moments for her live music.

Today, more than seven years after its release, record labels SONAMOS (founded by Juana Molina and her manager/producer Mario Agustín de Jesús González) and LITTLE BUTTERFLY RECORDS (Uruguay) give you the release of EXHALO, a 4-track EP recorded during the Halo sessions.

Content:

A SIDE:
1. Astro de luz segunda
2.  Vagos lagos

B SIDE:
1. Invierno
2. Hope 

Four grooves that escape the category of outtakes and that, of course, pursue the aesthetic that seemed to obsess Juana in 2017: minimal gestures, sophisticated rhythms and textures, unexpected melodies and a harmonic world unusual for the pop universe. Here are four compositions and four performances that could easily have been included in “the official Halo” and that, due to the strange (or indecipherable) mental processes of the artists, were relegated from the final cut.

Now, with the appearance of EXHALO, the Halo film seems complete and definitive. The ideal artifact to wait for the new music from Juana —“that strange and beautiful creature,” according to the definition of the NRP, the public radio of the United States— that was announced for 2025.

TECH SHEET

Juana Molina: guitars, samples, keyboards, synths, programming
Odín Schwartz: guitar in A1, piano in B1, backing vocals in B2
Diego López de Arcaute: drums in A1
John Dietrich: electric guitar in B2

All songs composed by Juana Molina.
A1, A2 y B1 produced by Juana Molina, Eduardo Bergallo and Odín Schwartz.

Art design by Alejandro Ros.
Mastered by Daniel Osorio.
Executive Producer:
Mario Agustín de Jesús González.

JUANA MOLINA
TALKS ABOUT EXHALO:

"Despite this trend of publishing individual songs on digital platforms as a key to success, when I already have a good number of them, I dedicate myself exhaustively to put together a sequence to have an album with a story from the beginning to the end.

The hardest thing is to find the right opening song, since it will be the one in charge of presenting the album. Once that decision is made, I begin to see how a song gives way to the next one, like the movements of a concert, like the scenes of a film, like the couples at the dances of the 18th century, in which, when changing partners, there is always one hand that receives the other that arrives.

In that process, pariahs begin to be glimpsed, those songs that cannot coexist well with the others, that cause a distraction interrupting the flow of the listening.

In the sequencing process of HALO, three of the fifteen songs were left behind, poor things. Only one of them, VAGOS LAGOS, was lucky enough to make it as a bonus track in a Japanese CD edition. But it didn't have the same opportunities than the rest of them which made the tour around the world. The other two songs, ASTRO DE LA LUZ SEGUNDA and INVIERNO, were completely left out of the game, resigned to their fate. For years they never imagined that this moment would come for them to see the light on EXHALO.

We needed a fourth song for Side B. Can you imagine what a surprise it was for HOPE to be chosen to be part of the EP even though it was just a demo? It was probably the power of its name that made it possible.”

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