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alasVALS
Spanish
日本人〔日本語〕
Strange planes flying over me
Ways that
already I've dreamed
I ask to myself
Till when will I be here?
Hidden shadows and faces that don't see
Eyes like torches looking at me,
is like walking on the moon,
Are you yet with me?
Maybe is the red light that follows me
Winter blues and foggy nights
Tears of the butterfly that never cry...
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alasVALS new Video
"Nubes prestadas"
Te
regalo
las
nubes
de Brasil,
Te devuelvo
la vida
en que
te amé...
alasVALS Video
"FAS"
(DnB
mix)
"Felices Aves
Sabias" or "FAS" a very short trip DnB by folktronica alasVALS.
The legend said that Walt Disney visited this park in Argentina in 1949
finding the inspiration for creating Disneyland.
Ths videos departs from the imaginary station of "Little Red hood" into
a trip of reality and fantasy.
alasVALS Video
"Starfish
dream"
W
...When Silvia
fell in love with Lanzarote Island -Canary Island- she decided those
moon style landscapes would be ideal for alasVALS new dreamy music
video "Starfish dream" ( "Sueño de una estrella de mar") because
that song was partly composed at the island celebrating the amazing
landscape, the wind, the emptiness, the sun... Dedicated to our
inner child, when everything is possible.
alasVALS new Single
"Etereotango"
...Alt-tango, ambient
and ethereal with a contemporary touch, encompassing folktronic to
experimental and even classical music. It evokes uprooting, loss and
constant searching. Inspired by the great women that break moulds...
Find "Etereotango" at
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The
brainchild of Argentinean singer songwriter Silvia Demetilla,
alasVALS are a folk/fusion alternative-tango collective based in
London and Buenos Aires. The core members joining Silvia are David
Aguirre –based in Argentina- who controls the programming and
instrumental arrangements, violinist Natalie Sedgwick – with her
beautiful and sensitive approach to the songs- and flute player
Therese Bann –who describes herself as “between classical, jazz,
world, ambient and anything in between as long as it's got soul” - +
guest musicians. Virtuoso percussionist and founding member Nando
Gómez sadly died in 2008, but his inventive use of eclectic
percussion lives on through their recordings, especially 2008's
“Felicidad Equidistante”, which is dedicated to him.
(download)
UniversalFilia
free download at Last FM
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alasVALS use an eclectic range of instruments including violin,
flute, melodica, ocarina, synths, rainstick, Indian tablas and
odd percussion instruments, which are then mixed with electronic
samples and melodic beats. Switching between English and Spanish
the lyrics have a very delicate, clear voice, suited to the
poetry they sing and play. Their lyrical influences include
reflections on emigration and personal poetry about "inner
life".
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What is being
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"Rather than adjusting to the
Argentine stereotype
alasVALS - an
atmospheric group
influenced by tango, trip hop, jazz and experimental pop - has taken and
transformed London's life influence in a creative way... This is not
only because sometimes they sing in English and Spanish, it is also
because their songs have something nostalgic and a winter feeling... A
real discovery
for people that like
Portishead, Bjork or Regina Spektor".
Magazine El Colectivo- London
"alasVALS is a
group I’d like to play more from; their fusion of musical is surprising
and well-judged but above all very moving".
N Quentin Woolf- Xtreme East FM- London
"Truly one of
the one the most original and forward thinking Latin acts based here in
the UK"
Movimientos
"Lonely but warm, just like a lost Latin American trying to find
themselves in the squalid streets of London. The fact is that distance
plays a very important role in this new –electronically gentle– music,
which has impressed both Latin American and local listeners. Distance,
or estrangement, then, has a curious effect: a kind of returning to
one’s roots but from a whole different perspective, adapted to an ever
surprising reality, full of unexpected novelties".
Cantartica
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Entrevista a Silvia Demetilla por Tomás Yelmini
Clarín-
febrero 2009

Diario El Sol
April 2011
La Nación
Lo argentino, objeto de deseo
Radio interviews and live
Londres Asi Radio UK oct 2010
- in
Spanish-
(listen)
Música sin Comprimir_ FM Ahijuna -
in Spanish
(watch video)
Resonance Fm London UK 2010
- in
English -
(listen 1)
(listen 2)
Resonance FM London UK 2009
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in English -(listen)
FM Sur 88.9 Quilmes AR 2009
- in
Spanish-
(listen)
FM Sur 88.9 Quilmes AR 2010
- in
Spanish-
(listen)
Radio
G- Purple Haze AR -
(read)
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