{"title":"J Zunz","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"del-aire","title":"Del Aire","description":"\u003cp\u003eLorena Quintanilla’s journey as J. Zunz continues with her third solo release, and her second for Rocket Recordings after 2020’s \u003ci\u003eHibiscus\u003c\/i\u003e. Recorded in a vociferously windy area of Enseneda, Mexico, where Lorena spent a strict lockdown, Del Aire’ exorcises the troubles she encountered during the period, in the process creating both what she describes as a “continuity and discontinuity” from \u003ci\u003eHibiscus\u003c\/i\u003e, and extracting a similar, yet fresh strain of emotional complexity. With the atmospheric and natural theme of air at the heart of the creative process, Lorena has created an extraordinarily spacious work. The synths of ‘Lineal’ thrive on pulse-like repetition, gathering from a luscious sweeping panorama into a bruising orchestral crescendo. Elsewhere, as on \u003ci\u003eDel Aire\u003c\/i\u003e the discordant-meets-melodic sonics dwell somewhere adjacent to Gazelle Twin. Both Lorena’s vocals and her distinctive crystalline avant aesthetic are writ large throughout the reverberations of ‘Cruce’ and ‘Horizonte’ as well as on the anxiety-rending exhortations closing the surreally meditative ‘Outsides’.‘Parts’ beautifully reflects organic instrumentation through Lorena’s electronic prism. ‘Raìfaga’, meanwhile, sees caustic drums enact glitchy, stop-start rhythms. Here, and on the hypnotic ‘Nina’, Lorena gilds the narcotic power of Miles Davis’s ‘On The Corner’ – with trumpet recorded by Freddie Murphy (Father Murphy) – into electronically contorted shapes. Through the mellifluous repetition, the cathartic buzzsaw moments and the elemental force of the album’s conceptual core, \u003ci\u003eDel Aire\u003c\/i\u003e acts as an intimate echo chamber vicariously healing the listener’s wounds besides Lorena’s own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Yellow | LP","offer_id":50503466778955,"sku":"1152451","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5ffbf438-070a-407c-8681-055dff6fa807_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727796107"},{"product_id":"obsidiana","title":"Obsidiana","description":"\u003cp\u003eObsidian rock is igneous, frequently dark, yet opaque. Hard edged and brittle, it’s often been used both for weaponry and alchemical pursuits. Therefore when Lorena Quintanilla – the Mexican-based artist from the group ‘Lorelle Meets The Obsolete’ and also known as J. Zunz – was searching for psychic inspiration for her next musical venture, she need have looked no further. “Once I chose the title, everything I read, saw, listened to, and thought about began to interconnect” she relates. “Obsidian became like a magnetic field.”\u2028\u2028\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Mesoamerican cultures, it was used in many different ways – obsidian mirrors, for example, were tools for divination and spiritual vision\". Thereafter, Lorena set about creating an album entirely on her own terms. Driven by both the ghost and the heart of the machine, ‘Obsidiana’ open up a portal whereby forbidding drone, ethereal ambience and insistent repetition intertwine elegantly to form a seamless whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA study in balance, its emotional charge remains strong and intact whether on the eerie, almost Radiophonic ambience of ‘Imago’ or the dancefloor-adjacent, Chris and Cosey-esque ‘Osiris’. Lyrically meanwhile, \u003cem\u003eObsidiana\u003c\/em\u003e intersects deep personal explorations with the conflicts and contradictions of life in the unforgiving realm of 2026 – as Lorena says; “he process behind ‘Obsidiana’ was very abstract, yet I wanted the lyrics to stay grounded in the present and in reality\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately however, \u003cem\u003eObsidiana\u003c\/em\u003e, in all its sharp yet amorphous glory, is catharsis manifest. “Each song carries a clear and deliberate intention” Lorena emphasises. “To conjure, to exorcise, to strip away fear, to rediscover myself, to heal inherited sadness, and to reclaim the night that was taken from us.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rocket Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP - Clear","offer_id":56923238072651,"sku":"R0516-5077","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2000x2000bb_1027b0ae-596f-4b96-85a7-ad7c42b5d92b.jpg?v=1774954457"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/j-zunz.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}