3 out of 5

Label: Discos Mascarpone

Produced by: ?

Two longform bits of ambient spaciness, unfortunately mastered pretty poorly, and with the A-side’s comparative punch making the B-side a tougher sell.

Mister negative over here, but I must say: Recuerda Tu Futuro manages to be nigh-transportative, despite these limitations. A trio playing “automatic” guitar / bass / drums / electronics arrangements gives us the intense and moving Ida on the A-side, which sparkles with Windsor for the Derby atmospherics before rolling drums crash through like the ebb and flow of a rainstorm. The aforementioned mastering keeps it pretty quiet and the levels muted, but if you turn it up, it still works, and has the unit functioning as a whole, crafting – automatically – what feels composed.

B-side Vuelta suggests that it’s going to use ambient electronics to achieve a similar buildup, but it never quite peeks through the burbling mire of sounds, nor do those sounds differentiate themselves from the background of Ida. While such differentiation isn’t necessary when you’re doing drone or full-on ambient, the nature of a cassette release (or even digital, splitting the tracks into two) suggests separate experiences in some form; or you craft a longer release that makes an impact as things continue on over a longer period.

All of this is subjective as to how such music “should” be presented, but it nonetheless waters down the experience of Recuerda Tu Futuro to me, already limited by a tinny recording / mastering.