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A French-Argentinian artist now based in Spain, Luna Cedrón makes music under the name Fiesta en el Vacío – curious, unpinnable music that draws from a bunch of genres but doesn’t really settle anywhere. What’s most compelling about her third album, Rosal, is the way she disentangles her voice, offering it up to multiple narratives at once, taking on different deliveries – clear; murky; mumbled and mangled through electronics. The music she uses to scaffold those voices takes in meandering rhythms, simple keyboard lines for bass and melody, and oddly compelling samples or field recordings: what sounds like the sudden revving of car engines, for example. When she peels things back to something sounding like traditional Occitanian folk, as on the lovely “La Menina,” it recalls Emmanuelle Parrenin, or Veronique Chalot.

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