José Gonzàlez
In Our Nature

THE REVIEW

A classical guitar and a microphone. An open tuning to convey warmth. A subtle echo effect on the microphone and a deliberately homemade recording.

Simplicity.

In our nature resumes the thread interrupted by the Swedish singer-songwriter with Veneer: singer-songwriter linearity and emotions molded on six nylon strings. Feeble, insecure, almost scared voice, yet at the same time engaging and warm, vibrant and trembling. Latin-folk rhythms woven on the oak wood, shaped but not chiseled. Rhythms that bounce as if inside an imaginary cube with walls of flamenco, classical guitar, and folk. Rhythms. Those who listened to Veneer have felt these sensations, the same are repeated in "In our nature". Perhaps too similar to the previous one, perhaps too limited in duration, in any case remarkable. It reveals the talent, conveys emotions. The core of José González's music is this: conveying feelings, beats, tales translated into lines and dots according to a Morse alphabet molded on/by his guitar. He succeeds both when he reinterprets "Teardrop" by Massive Attack (the original is beautiful and polished anew in this version) and in the chant of the title track.

The lyrics, never trivial, are the bond between heart and guitar, between melody and soul, full of that melancholic disillusionment experienced when trying to glimpse the dawn in the icy winters of the northern lands, without success.