Semantica continues its tour around the world in a company of three foreign artists and a fellow Spaniard who take the Nonnative series to the fourth installment.
Stanislav Tolkachev from Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine opens with automated step-dance powered by caustic notes in synth stabs, followed by Obtane’s “Thunder Will Purify Us”, which runs on deep space modulations and percussive reverbs keeping a veil of mystery above the driving track by the Italian.
“Foundations” by Canadian-born Berlin resident Mary Velo is a loop-driven builder with atmospheric touch and blurred vocal overlays while Eduardo De La Calle’s luminescent electro riffs in attractively old-fashioned “Here Living With Us” round off a neat release.