Savath and Savalas

Title: Mañana

Label: WARP

Rating: 6.8 of 7

Genre: traditional Spanish music meets trip-hop

After the well received full length, Apropa’t, Spanish sweethearts Savath & Savalas are back with a new EP. The collaboration between trip-hop extraordinaire Prefuse 73, aka Scott Herron, and Eva Puyelo Muns takes traditional Spanish music and manipulates it through a number of samplers and other like-minded devices to create a completely new and engrossing sound. The project was originally conceived last year when Herron went to Spain to find his roots; while there he met and fell in love with Muns. With a combination of completely different styles, they released Apropa’t to open arms in Spain, and later to a welcoming US audience. The Mañana EP resembles Herron’s Prefuse work more than before, meaning a lot more breaks and beats than the full length. Muns soft and enticing voice is still present, but the music is what really shines here (including instrumental #5). Another amazing and inventive release from WARP and my hero, Prefuse 73.

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