AÉREA NEGROT: ARABXILLA ALBUM RELEASE
BPitch Control, the Berlin-based electronic music label is not shy of presenting innovative sounds… Zoot welcomes Venezuela-born Aérea Negrot from their stable with her latest offering “Arabxilla”.
Text By Chris Clyde Green
Aérea Negrot has always felt that she belonged to another planet. This sentiment justifies her addictive operatic, electo-music. In 2004, she crash-landed onto the Berlin club scene having danced through Porto, The Haugue and London. Liberal travels; an opera-singing grandmother and artistic parents have helped Negrot create a unique and magnetising sound.
After years of cultivating her craft and teaming up with a number of producers including Andy Butler (Hercules & Love Affair), she began to realise the dream that is “Arabxilla”.
The album is unashamedly and gloriously-grandiose delving into the life of it’s creator. “Arabxilla” is a series of tales from the artist’s avant-garde experiences, uniquely combining genres (techno, house, electronica and opera) and languages (German, English and Spanish).
Negrot says the album features moments passed: “The title track “Arabxilla”, for example, is the first solo song I ever finished, and was made in 2004 when I was leaving London.” You can hear the sense of hope, yet caution regarding her new adventure. The haunting operatic bridge juxtaposed casino online against the repeatedly uttered: “I go diagonal,” suggests certainty but nostalgia. Also, Tobias Freud’s solid-beat productions in “Todeloo” and “Breathe deeply” are greatly complimentary to Negrot’s virtuous, emotional vocal.
It’s the various characteristics of her vocal: (poignant, sassy, grand) that set Negrot’s latest record apart from her contemporaries. The dance-diva has been missing, but she is back. The “Diva” can clearly been heard in the achingly-cool “Please Move to” and the humorous erotic-tale “Listen to the People”, a track similar to the sounds of Le Corps mince de Françoise.
The artist confesses to being inspired by hearing “twists in music” which can definitely been heeded in her latest offering. Her influences range from Mambo-inspired opera singers to Berlin house Dj’s making“Arabxilla” a very abstract, groove-driven production. In essence, the music explains itself…
Start your Arabxilla journey here:
www.bpitchcontrol.de/artist/78
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