Akane - Night-Time Birds

Keroxen / Discrepant

£18.70

Format: Vinyl LP
Catalogue No.: KRXN034
Barcode: 5065004291385
Release Date: 19 May 2023
Genre: Synth / Bedroom Pop / Lo Fi / Ambient

Made in Spain/ NO AMAZON

Debut album by Akane, a new bedroom solo project by Tenerife's Carolina Machado - best known for her role as drummer and singer in space rock psychedelic outfit Gaf y La Estrella de la Muerte. Cooked and slowly matured over the last couple of years, Carolina opens up her heart to present an intimate collection of dreamy avant pop songs under the banner title Night-Time Birds.

With various nods to David Lynch’s dreamlike imagery and weird americana landscapes, Carolina gracefully merges her own local sensibilities to re-imagine a panoramic, fictional soundtrack to an unmade road movie, creating a personal musical language made up of vintage pop songs, lush ambient soundscapes and West Coast lo-fi electronica. Her pursue of sonic exploration through modular synthesis techniques pushes her sound further out into a wider realm as she blends exotic alien-like melodies with her trademark soothing, shoe-gaze style voice. An album that seems to be floating gracefully and frozen in time…

The album’s seven tracks were recorded live during her performance in a disused gas tank at the Keroxen festival in 2022 and counts with the special collaboration of her bandmate in Gaf César Chinarro on guitar. No doubt, Night-Time Birds is not the last we’ll hear from Carol demonstrating once again the varied and eclectic creative energy currently flowing from the Canary archipelago shows no sign of slowing down.

Tracklist
The End of the World
Level Up
Son
Analog Sea
Death Valley
Night - Time Birds
Océanos

Credits
Carolina Machado – synths, samplers, voice
César Chinarro – Guitar
Produced by Mladen Kurajica
Recorded live at Espacio Cultural El Tanque and mixed by Jorge Lozano
Mastered by Daniel Báez
Artwork by Pura Márquez