Cálido Home – Tones And Shapes CD

Cálido Home – Tones And Shapes CD

"Cálido Home would once call their music ‘motherfolker’, almost like an insult, and that was how robust the folk songs in their debut album ‘Vulpes Vulpes’ (Desert pearl Union, 2013) were, but Eril asked them to turn it down a bit, to play softer, and from this restraint flowed new details, fragility and subtleness. They have learnt that when the song is already going upwards, there’s no need to push it.

They also discovered silence, inexistent in their songs until now. When Pons sug- gested they not play together at every moment they were first taken back and did- n’t understand. But they listened, and in ‘Tones and Shapes’ silence becomes an active element in the music, the songs breath. And if a small sound like the squeak of a chair should find its way into a moment of silence, it was welcomed: the fact that everything is not always in place can mean, if done well, a more lively and real sound. It has a soul.

Eduard’s guitar is a round trip from the US West Coast to Africa; it search’s for plea- sure when playing; if he doesn’t feel that pleasure when performing a song he will never play it again. Anna’s voice, less imposed then before and quieter when the melody gets harder, reminds Joan Pons of Karen Dalton. The Cal Eril producer feels that with ‘Tones and Shapes’, Cálido Home have finally found themselves. And this time, it wasn’t hard to convince them that he was right." - Marta Salicrú