Cipr|s

Buenos Aires composer Ignacio Sandoval, aka Yoto, returns to London’s Kit Records with a new album of dismantled Argentinian folk music. Taking root at the border between Latin American folk tradition and the kiln of Buenos Aires’ distinctly bustling experimental arts scene, Cipr|s is a loose-limbed collection of elegiac storytelling. Guitar remains at the heart of Yoto’s practice; each piece on Cipr|s began life as a miniature improvisation, recorded in real time then gently adorned with splintering melodies of marimba and xylophone, and funereal marching percussion. The results form a series of private moments; internal sculptures and scenes that speak to the intimacy and solitude of domestic life. Like fellow Argentinian boundary-pushers Aylu and Vic Bang, Yoto’s previous work bubbled with a fermented maximalism (see “Levure”). In contrast, Cipr|s alludes to weathered forms – dialogues that fork, disintegrate and improbably rekindle, like aerial roots feeling their way through an ancient city wall. When Sandoval’s voice does appear – on “Viento De Otoo” – it casts a dappled, swaying shadow.. Recommended if you like Josephine Foster, The Residents, Lucrecia Dalt, Animal Collective, Tom Waits, J.H. Guraj.