Juana Molina

Hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Juana Molina is an extraordinary singer / songwriter / producer with a remarkable tale to tell. Formerly a celebrated Argentinian comic with her own successful TV show, Segundo is her second album, and the first to be heard outside her home country. Turning her back on her previous career, Juana’s music flows from her acoustic guitar, off-kilter electronic sounds and rhythms and a vast, strangely comforting plethora of noises from flora and fauna, while her voice is soothing and mesmeric. Segundo is a wonderful album bubbling with joy and underpinned by gentle grace. Juana explains: "My father taught me to play guitar when I was five and I've been in a musical ambience all my life. During the summers we lived in the same house with Vinicius de Moraes and Chico Buarque; my father played with them and they were always improvising songs to cheer up the kids. When a military coup d'etat seized the country our family fled to Paris. We lived there for six years and came back to Argentina when democracy was restored.” Back in Buenos Aires, Juana became a singer in various bands, but feeling like she needed to brush up her guitar playing, she... more...