Acclaimed producer (Rosalía, Lina_Raül Refree) and in-demand collaborator (Lee Ranaldo, Richard Youngs) Raül Refree returns with “el espacio entre” (out now), his second solo album for tak:til/glitterbeat.
Purchase the LP/CD on Bandcamp: https://refree-taktil.bandcamp.com/album/el-espacio-entre
Stream the album here: https://idol-io.link/ElEspacioEntre
Raül Refree’s album ‘el espacio entre’ seems to lead a liminal existence.
It belongs as much to the realms of Post-Classical meditations and soundtracks as to ancient Iberian traditions and Experimental music.
The title, Spanish for “The Space Between,” alludes to its spatial, temporal and conceptual inbetweenness. It is a kaleidoscopic music that oozes through crevices between here and there.
“There’s a lot of stuff on here that reflects everything I’ve done so far but also where I’m at the moment.”
The concept for the album emerged from his soundtrack for the restored early Spanish cinema masterpiece “The Cursed Village” (Florián Rey, 1930).
“The film is about leaving your place to go look for a better life and the emptiness that grows from it. I decided the record’s gonna be about different kinds of emptiness. Like leaving your hometown, standing in front of an audience feeling completely alone or doing lame things that really leave you empty.
It explores loss, the void that separates who we were and who we are.“
“El espacio entre” is a sonic diary that may lead you to transformational events while riding the bus, train or plane, being in transit between one destination or another, the current and next version of you.
“I think the only meaningful approach to music-making is to be personal. To show who you are through music. Experimentation isn’t about what’s supposed to be experimental. It’s about exploring yourself.“
Tracklist:
01. Lamentos de un rescate
02. La plage
03. Montañas vacías
04. Lamentos de un día cualquiera
05. La radio en la cocina
06. Todo el mundo quiere irse ya
07. Casc i pluja
08. Amanece sin que nadie lo vea
09. Montañas vacías II
10. Lamentos de otro día cualquiera
11. Las migraciones nocturnas
12. Lo que esconden 04:13
13. No es tan fácil aquí
14. Una nueva religión