ARIES “JURAMENTO MANTARRAYA” LP + Mp3 / CD / Digital Release date: April 26th, 2019

RECOMMENDED SONGS SHORT DESCRIPTION 1. Juramento Mantarraya 2. Un gran puente Mind traveling sunshine pop and inventive electronics from Spain 6. Space Cake to listen while dancing around a fire. TRACK LIST 1. Juramento Mantarraya “Las distancias entre el barro y la electrónica 2. Un gran puente solo pueden ser andadas por la mística” 3. La mejor sensación 4. Error perpetuo 5. Dolce far niente “The distance between mud and electrónics 6. Space Cake can only be walked through by mysticism”. 7. Un día cualquiera Val del Omar 8. El camino 9. Facts *Canción a Coki 10. Bahía Tristeza Although Isa Fdez. Reviriego defends in one of the songs of her last album that “doing HIGHLIGHTS nothing” is a sublime pleasure, the truth is that Isabel herself finds it very difficult to stay still. • K Records and La Castanya co-release “Adieu or die” worldwide. It is not because she thinks there’s something wrong “doing nothing”. Introspection is, • K Records, founded in Olympia in 1983 according to her vision of the world, a highly productive and efficient activity for the by Calvin Johnson, released records for individual. But Isa doesn’t just love to talk about “doing nothing” – she loves to do. In the artists like Beat Happening, Beck, Modest last year, she soundtracked the Playstation video game Melbits World and a short film Mouse or Built to Spill. for Stella McCartney. She provided singing voices for the Spanish-language version of • This is Aries’ foruth album following “Adieu or Die” (also on K Records and Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, and has remixed several other artists. La Castanya), “Mermelada Dorada” and “Magia Bruta”. In 2011, Isa discovered a melodic, kaleidoscopic, punk and unpredictable universe inside • Aries toured the US and Europe playing her head – one in which Brian Wilson’s melodies and Leon Tolstoi’s law-breaking final 10 countries. messages – could happily dance hand in hand to electronic rhythms. She called this • La Castanya takes care of Aries mana- personal project Aries, after her zodiac sign. Her fourth and latest album, Juramento gement. Mantarraya, released by Spanish label La Castanya and K Records, is a collection of ALBUM SPECIFICATIONS beautiful melodies —seemingly convoluted yet simple— a combination of violins, flutes, Artist: Aries Title: Juramento Mantarraya industrial sounds, and chest-rattling bass. Label: K Records / La Castanya Across Juramento Mantarraya, Isa and co-producer Jose Vázquez creates an orchestra Reference: LC62 / KLP273 Digital Distributor: The Orchard – an exciting mixture of soul and free-jazz rhythms, melodies from the girl groups of the Distributor Europe: SRD Distributors 60s, sunshine pop, spanish folk and experimental electronics. Combining samplers, synths, Distributor USA and Canada: Secretly Distribution guitars, her precious voice and the sounds of the Galician Coast, where she creates, she Format: LP+Mp3 / CD / Digital speaks of friendship, love, and the beauty of error. Genre: Experimental / Electronica Release date: April 26th, 2019 Isa tells us that the right to doubt is as relevant as the need to know that making mistakes LP barcode: 789856127313 and meditating are two legitimate activities – just like triumph and work. She shows that CD barcode: 789856127320 imperfection and experience make us human – and that building the path is much more CREDITS important than the arrival itself. She analyzes ferocious, time-devouring capitalism and the All songs written by Isabel Fernández Reviriego. egomaniac society, celebrates experimentation, and invites you to rethink everything you’ve Instruments and vocals by Isabel Fernán- ever learned. dez Reviriego. In her 2015 book Un Rayo Ultravioleta (An Ultraviolet Ray) (Chelsea Ediciones), Isa Recorded by Jose Vázquez at Estudios Pastora, Vigo, Spring 2018. Produced by explains: “When I make music, time stops, nothing else worries me and I am happy. During Jose Vázquez. Co-produced by Isabel Fer- those moments, I feel true pleasure and fullness. I can concentrate for hours and get nández Reviriego. Mixed by Pablo Martín. excited with an arrangement or a sound and vibrate with the harmonies. They are what Mastered by Alex Psaroudakis. Artwork: grandegraphix Lord Byron called ‘the dazzling intervals,’” and Juramento Mantarraya is precisely that: a collection of dazzling intervals created by someone who knows that only those who are PRESS ENQUIRIES as excited taking a walk as composing melodies can reach people’s hearts. Andi Wilson • [email protected]

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