Tronzar Os Valos (Folmusica, 2015)
Hailing from Galicia’s emerging music scene, the Spanish singer, songwriter and kick ass rocker SES, not to be confused with S.E.S. the now defunct South Korean girl group, has hit the streets with a follow-up to her 2011Admirando a Condicion and the 2013 release of Co Xenio Destrozado called Tronzar Os Valos on the Folmusica label. Delivering a high-powered brand of rock dashed through with blues and Latin influences, SES is intensely vibrant and infectiously compelling.
Writing most of the music and lyrics for Tronzar Os Valos, SES’s sound is bold, voracious and fearless. Opening with the swinging “Sentir Sen Pensar,” SES’s dishy vocals sit center stage on a sea of razor sharp guitars and drums. Moving into the folksy “Como Eu Canto,” SES provides a nice turn of tone, before dipping into the Latin saturated track “Dous Mil Anos Mais” where SES’s vocals fairly vibrate with an inner rock star toughness.
Serving up an interesting versatility by ways of the easiness of title track “Tronzar Os Valos” against the bluesy roadhouse number “Novas Ganas de Sonar” and the hard rocking “Baixo O Cemento” against the sweetly intimate “Mais Que Quimera,”SES’s vocals and guitar playing by turns burns bright with edgy backbone and a soft center. Other goodies include the Latin saturated “Humanamente,” the soulful “Un Pendamento” and the quick, bright work of the rocking “Un Xeito de Borrarte.”
Unapologetically spunky, Tronzar Os Valos is hip, sharply fresh and cleverly savvy.
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Author: TJ Nelson
TJ Nelson is a regular CD reviewer and editor at World Music Central. She is also a fiction writer. Check out her latest book, Chasing Athena’s Shadow.
Set in Pineboro, North Carolina, Chasing Athena’s Shadow follows the adventures of Grace, an adult literacy teacher, as she seeks to solve a long forgotten family mystery. Her charmingly dysfunctional family is of little help in her quest. Along with her best friends, an attractive Mexican teacher and an amiable gay chef, Grace must find the one fading memory that holds the key to why Grace’s great-grandmother, Athena, shot her husband on the courthouse steps in 1931.
Traversing the line between the Old South and New South, Grace will have to dig into the past to uncover Athena’s true crime.
