MOTIVOS PARA PERDERSE

4.5 stars. I consider this album to be a gift from above, but please let me explain. I deal with several vendors for my Prog music, but one of them also sells music from every genre imaginable.They have never made a mistake in all the years i've dealt with them until now. They sent me this cd that I did not order, and to be honest i've never heard of Fernandez Ledesma. So i'm thinking I have to phone them and send it back, i'm not too happy. I mean for all I know this guy plays polka music. Then I noticed on the back of the cd cover the Musea label, and I was suddenly interested. So I looked him up to see if he was on our site, and there he was ! No rating for this one yet, but on another site this was his highest rated record, so I decided to keep it. As soon as I started to listen to it I had to smile and give a thankyou skywards. This is freaking amazing ! I still can't believe it, yet I can believe it if you know what I mean. Haha.

"El Acueducto" is my favourite track one here. It's so dreamy, it's absolutely gorgeous. Synths and acoustic guitar lead the way early. Just beautiful. It changes 2 1/2 minutes in when piano and flute take over. This is different but so heavenly. Another change 2 minutes later as the piano becomes more prominant, as mandolin and flute join in. Synths come and go. It ends with the second theme returning. "La Montana De Los Enchentros" opens with a pulsating rhythm as sax, flute and piano come in. Synths lead the way for a while. Sounds come and go until we get a calm 3 minutes in to the end. "Ottla" opens with acoustic guitar and synths. Beautifully pastoral. Some angular guitar 1 1/2 minutes in as drums come in and the tempo picks up. Synths and organ lead the way until a calm 3 minutes in. Angular guitar is back before 4 minutes. "La Ciudad Di Las Mil Columnas" is ethnic sounding and it becomes uptempo quickly. "La Espiral" opens with male chanting with female chants joining in. Cool hypnotic sound. Again this has an ethnic flavour to it. "Remanso" is a one minute pastoral interlude. "El Arbol De Indigo" is the longest song at almost 11 minutes. It continues to be pastoral from the previous track. It changes 1 1/2 minutes in as vibes- like sounds come in with synths and bass also standing out. Pulsating synths also make an appearance on this one. A calm 6 minutes in. It slowly builds to a full sound 8 1/2 minutes in with synths leading the way. It's spacey to end it.

"La Huida" opens with sounds that build. Lots of intricate sounds that come and go until a full sound with sax and organ 2 minutes in. Some nice drumming and bass as well. "Relatos Del Agua" means "Tale of the water" so we get some water sounds and background synths to open. Percussion and those vibes-like sounds take over. Very otherworldly sounding. Great atmosphere. The intensity builds after 4 1/2 minutes. It calms back down and ends as it began. "Motivos Para Perderse" is of course the title track, it means "Motifs to go astray". This is the almost 9 minute closing track. Piano to open as percussion joins in and then female vocals. Lots of intricate sounds early. It changes after a minute with lots of synths. She's back 2 minutes in. A great sound follows. Sax comes in and it's dissonant as she sings away. Check out the guitar and percussion 5 minutes in ! Themes are repeated. This is amazing ! She's back 6 minutes in right to the end with more dissonant sax.

I will be checking out more of Fernandez Ledesma's music, but I will order it on purpose this time. A must have. Cool cover art as well. P.S. I went back to the company that sent me this, and they don't even have this cd listed in their catalogue ! Just his three latest ones.