Mínim

Mínim

El Pes Del Món

Not Not Fun

Valencian synthesist Juanvi Fortea aka Mínim draws on his dual backgrounds in metamorphic Spanish electro-acoustic troupe Mecánica Clásica as well as active-duty high school history teacher for his latest suite of sunken, sacred geometries: El Pes Del Món (“The Weight of the World”). Inspired by the lore of ancient trade routes that bound the outskirts of antiquity – paths of spice, silk, merchants, and thieves – the album’s 10 tracks unspool like vignettes glimpsed from a passing caravan. Shifting layers of modular rhythm, sequential circuits, field recordings, and poetic vapor loop and thicken and decay in crisscrossing maps of dust, rope, and eroded stone. Fortea’s minimalism is one of oblique narrative and negative space, fusing the granular and cinematic into an exotic clockwork, tracing swaying lines through hills and haze, in thrall to an age of discovery just beginning to dawn. Written, recorded, and mixed by Juanvi Fortea. Mastered by Jared Carrigan. Cover illustration by Carlos Romero. Design by Britt Brown.