Alvarez, Lorena & Alejandro Palacios

Alvarez, Lorena & Alejandro Palacios

Jardín Giratorio

Not Not Fun

Chilean duo Lorena Álvarez and Alejandro Palacios return with a second suite of poetic improv murmurings: Jardín Giratorio. Dusty horns trace smoke rings over daydream keys, seesawing strings, and whispery wah guitar. Instruments interweave and unravel in warm currents of light and shadow. Theirs is a hushed, tactile chemistry, roving the peripheries of low-lit ambient and narcoleptic jazz, unrushed and unspooling from rotating gardens of the mind’s eye. Lorena Álvarez: Rhodes piano, Yamaha CS1x, Nord Stage EX 76, FX Alejandro Palacios: trombone, electric guitar, double bass, FX Recorded by Antonia Valladares in December 2024 at Palmera Roja studio. Mixed by Antonia Valladares, Lorena Álvarez & Alejandro Palacios. Mastered by Francisco Holzmann. Artwork by José Calman. Interior photo by Antonia Valladares.

Alvarez, Lorena & Alejandro Palacios

Paisajes Para Torcer al Reloj

Not Not Fun

Paisajes Para Torcer al Reloj (“landscapes for bending the clock”) is a collection of six collaborative improvisations between keyboardist / DJ Lorena Álvarez and multi-instrumentalist Alejandro Palacios recorded at the Nieve & Smog arts residency in Santiago, Chile in the spring of 2022. Theirs is a wispy, whispered chemistry, softly thrumming Rhodes laced with trumpet, guitar, and golden dust. The pieces unspool with a daydream logic of “hazy clocks and floating doors,” inspired by the holy trinity of Hassell, Riley, and Cherry. Both Álvarez and Palacios have carved eclectic bodies of work – the former as part of minimalist dance trios Cuerpo Docente and Los Bárbara Blade, the latter via psychedelic lounge-dub suites for Nonlocal Research. Yet Paisajes finds their common ground in more hushed, hidden terrain. Lulling, electro-acoustic landscapes of texture and resonance, shaded in wood, brass, and batteries, flowering at late hours in dimly lit rooms.