"Juana Molina answers our video call from a hospital bed, reclining in a green T-shirt with two cannulas in her hand. She has done her back in while also playing Whack-a-Mole with hernias, two last year, and two new ones now. Do you know those toys, made of little pieces of wood, and you press the bottom and it goes she makes herself floppy, mimicking a push puppet that's exactly how I was yesterday. But now, says the 64-year-old Argentinian musician, I have so many painkillers, that I She wobbles her eyelids, gurns and gives me two thumbs up."
"She is ultra precise on the technical odyssey she undertook to make her new record, and also extremely funny company, cheeky and withering about anyone who's too serious or worse, boring. In the early 90s, Molina was one of Argentina's biggest comedians with her sketch show Juana y Sus Hermanas (Juana and Her Sisters), in which she portrayed a series of outre characters with some degree of John Waters in their DNA. (Some of them still go viral on TikTok, which she doesn't let herself use because it's too addictive.)"
Juana Molina appears from a hospital bed, recovering from back trouble and multiple hernias while joking about painkillers. Molina transitioned from a high-profile comedy career in the early 1990s to pursue music after a pregnancy bed rest convinced her to follow a lifelong dream. Molina built a thirty-year musical career marked by dry, rhythmic guitar loops, drones, low pulses and incantatory vocals that create a comfortingly spooky atmosphere. Molina earned ardent supporters such as David Byrne and Feist and spent a substantial portion of her career on Domino. Molina remains meticulous about recording techniques and playfully dismissive of anything overly serious.
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