Nad Spiro
Tinta Invisible
Geometrik 2007

01. Ex Limbo Stars
02. Interruptus
03. Meremont Hotel
04. Helix
05. Tinta Invisible
06. Time Track
07. Soundhouse
08. Obaliba
09. Miss Rotula
10. Eye T.V.

Five years after Fightclubbing, Basque artist Rosa Arruti (aka Nad Spiro) comes back armed of her "limbo guitar", software and treated voice to leave us, once again, positively perplexed. If you expect a singer-songwriter album, then you couldn't be more wrong. As a matter of fact, there's not too much in Tinta Invisible that you could associate to guitar. Faint traces perhaps, a residue, a string being hit, but throughout Rosa knows how to make things resonate like a mysterious electronic mass. A mass celebrating almost nothing to be memorized or catalogued; a continuous process of appearing and disappearing of scarcely visible colors. She defines this approach as "sound camouflage"; indeed we have little chance of attributing an even vague scheme to what she plays. It's all moody and attractive, but also highly taken by the software involved, so a bit glitch and click & cuts, and then also improvised, poetic and a bit abrasive. No light stuff around here then, but who would want to settle with less? Music can be arranged in countless combinations - it's nice sometimes to be reminded.

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