Joana Dark: "Lo Secà" (2024)
Music production, instrumentation and sound design
Music production, instrumentation and sound design
In an uncertain present, Joana Dark's "Lo Secà" (2024) revisits Catalan & Valencian voices from the past, looking towards the future with powerful electronic arrangements, a contemporary production & innovative sound design technics.
Having known the artist for over 6 years now, Lo Secà has everything from Joana Dark (Barcelona, 1985) and me. The lands of Ponent. And those of Vinalopó. And all the kilometers that separate them, and that we have traveled together. Our mothers, fathers and grandparents. Also the present, the future and the rain that seems to never fall again.
Ambient, soundscapes, trap, pop and the popular voices that once sang these melodies. The incontestable essence of these experiences and of all those who contributed their grain of sand from one side or another of the stage while touring with the artist.
Also for me, Lo Secà is the hunger, the fucking war and the suffering of those who we have not been able to help all this time, since we started rescuing scores that already told us about people abandoning their towns. And the fact that none of that has changed.
Now I can only think of this album as a long exposure photograph of time, in the middle of a world that is going faster and faster. I hope you are as excited as we are.
Credits:
Creative direction: Ariadna Rulló (@joana____dark)
Production, instrumentation and mix: Manu Torres (@its_ethr) on @littleisland.lab (except for “Les Segadores”, which is a collaboration of the artist with "La Bulale")
Production, instrumentation and mix: Manu Torres (@its_ethr) on @littleisland.lab (except for “Les Segadores”, which is a collaboration of the artist with "La Bulale")
*Sample “A la vora del Riu, Mare” From the Alan Lomax Collection (@alanlomaxarchive) at the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Association for Cultural Equity || Additional production by Oscar Garrobé to “Cançó de Pandero”
Backing vocals: Neus Llorens (@xocolataamarga) (and solo in “La Fam”)
Mastering: Victor García at Ultramarinos Costabrava
Edit: ONERpm @onerpmes
Photography: Duna Vallès (@duna.valles)
Mastering: Victor García at Ultramarinos Costabrava
Edit: ONERpm @onerpmes
Photography: Duna Vallès (@duna.valles)
