DEDICATESSEN Vol. 4

Limited Edition 500 copies in orange colour vinyl, including a download coupon of this album in digital format (MP3 - 320 kbos).

AMA are back to contribute to our new series of dedicated 7" vinyls here at Jabalina: DEDICATESSEN. This time, San Sebastian's finest have recorded three songs with the rabies virus (“el virus de la rabia”) as a common thread, an illness which we all have been metaphorically sick with at som…

DEDICATESSEN Vol. 4

Limited Edition 500 copies in orange colour vinyl, including a download coupon of this album in digital format (MP3 - 320 kbos).

AMA are back to contribute to our new series of dedicated 7" vinyls here at Jabalina: DEDICATESSEN. This time, San Sebastian's finest have recorded three songs with the rabies virus (“el virus de la rabia”) as a common thread, an illness which we all have been metaphorically sick with at some point in our lives. Other artists have tried to capture the essence of emotional loss, but rarely have we seen such devastating, moving and -by the end of the record- disconcerting approach. “El día después”, with its sixties-inflected arrangement, Mireia Artetxe's backing vocals and its declaration of love for The Byrds, opens the process explaining the necessity of distancing, of getting far from a situation which is hard to assimilate at first, when you are still full of energy and you have not realized that things have changed and your fighting spirit is on top form. “Algo que no se ve” talks about that invisible thread that we all have to break, and describes how everything fades out, how emotional attachment is eventually diluted, and how difficult it is to face to the facts: “Something which cannot be seen / like the air and the wind / will stay / it manages to travel across / mountains, seas and skies / wherever you are”. These words are guided by an acoustic guitar which sounds a bit like a wreckage, a trembling sound which sinks into sadness like a knife into the water, and echoes Love and The Beatles. The haziness might suggest it was just a dream... but it is not. Then, on the flip side of this orange vinyl, we encounter an unexpected twist to the story: “Gato encerrado”, a song which closes the record but which is not the end of this bad trip, no relief to be found here. A new unfortunate event happens: a secret is revealed which prevents the grief to come to an end, leaving the wounds unhealed. The process, therefore, does not conclude, and we are left uneasy, unable to accept the facts, sick with the rabies virus that infects us all. This is a song which proves again how Javier Sánchez was one of the key elements of La Buena Vida. Some may argue that it is unfair to compare such different things, but this record shows nevertheless his talent for conveying the bittersweet melancholy of living in a song. The tune grows and grows, like in a constant crescendo, which in the end turns out to be an anticlimax, for the resolution never comes... they smartly leave the end of the song to the listener's imagination. We shall do so, too. “AMA ante el virus de la rabia” is one more step in AMA's career, as resounding as the previous ones or maybe more. A record which conveys their take on human emotions with greatness, personality and infinite taste. Bands which are defined by emotions and not labels or styles are rare. AMA is one them, and here is another gem to prove it. Long live to AMA.