SIMBIOSIS

Something was keeping me away from this Alejandro Villalon Renaud´s SIMBIOSIS (2013), album, it was there but I kind of thought it could wait until I had no expectations whatsoever, because there were some factors involved as Alejandro Villalon Renaud nationality and mainly the year it came upon. I mean for a first release of a Berlin School electronic music oriented album, well time has certainly passed by, in an ever changing electronic music world where d there are those who want to be part of its evolution and those who unbury the skeletons of past legends and sell them as new to unsuspecting victims.

Well, Alejandro Villalon Renaud is one of the two Mexican P.E. musicians included in this site and he is no grave robber. the same as Mr. Beltran which of course is good news, so let me count the ways:

Although inclined to sound like the before mentioned electronic music school ( i.e. Tangerine Dream´s & Klaus Schulze´s respective classrrooms) his melodic structures, even when dream/cosmic like, are held back of sounding like those founders´ music by his personal and detached approach, which honestly is not because he does not try, it is really his quiet naive but focused execution and his frugal sound gear which keeps him off those foreign musical idioms and ironically this works in his benefit as he also shows no emotional connection or intention to recreate the super cliched overly sweet passages or cinematic sections which so many PE musicians (including its founders later works) are/were inclined to play with. His compositions (which by the way are 6 adding up for a 44 minute ride) are full of very good ideas which overcome, most of the times, their own sound engineering and sound gear limitations and even display brushes of geniality along the way.

The "not all that glitters..." news.

A musician which in his promising, but still on the making, musical language delivers a very decent first release, which if taken two steps up (composition, sound engineering and sound gear wise) could have brought the house down but there are still too many stones left unturned in favor of more common grounds and a repetitive high pitch synth sound, building interesting (but eventually annoying by its pitch) melodic lines which appears here and there and almost all through the album and ends up being predictable and obtrusive of better sonic solutions and disgraces otherwise good sections and even a whole composition.

I could bet that if Mr. Villalon actually dedicated himself making a living in the battered third world P.E. musician ´s life his future works could be measured alongside those ProgressIve Electronic legends, but for now a good 3 stars rating for this album because when he lets his own light shine you know it is his own.

To wrap it up, there is a flawless track (Espectro), a couple of very good tracks but also a couple which deserved a better treatment and a quiet forgettable one.

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