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BIO / DISCOGRAPHY Fernando Lagreca is one of

those persons who kept an integrity and personality for an entire life… his music too. Year after year this Uruguayan of heart (it is based since 2002 in Barcelona, Spain) has managed to capture album by album, his particular passion by full electronic -but organic- sounds. His last album entitled “Control” (second work on Irregular label) means the next step ahead in his brilliant career.

The definitive dive maybe.

His compositions are a wide palette of tempting sounds. To name a few characteristics: sharpness in the melodies, warbled beauty, modernity vs

classic… Every song is a feeling. All blended into something quite unique, beautifully intense electronic trip. Difficult to know when to stop. Casiotones, keyboards, amplifiers or guitars, as in that movie “Young Sherlock Holmes” (1985) seems to get legs, hands, ears and smiles, and then they start to play some nostalgic but always optimistic music.

Upbeat, numb synth-wave or

soothing space IDM, fairly varied amount of sounds. Fernando would not mind having all his instruments stirring around, moreover, he delighted will join the “gang”. Defender of playing live and to keep in continuous contact

with the keys, guitar strings, mics, buttons, knobs… Whatever, not just a boring laptop screen and a dirty mouse pad.

In his productions it could see

one of the most refreshing surprises of this season. Chillwave, arpeggios, dreamy pop, Italo disco and slo-bewitching house music. Before it was the imagination and honors all that we had left; now you should rediscover also ‘childhood’ and wealth of music.

text by Bruno Garca

(Freelastica.com)

Selected Discography: Control (2014) - Irregular Label (LP album)Childhood Remixes (2014) - Irregular Label (Rmx Digital EP)Childhood Is All We Have (2012) - Irregular Label (CD album)Hi-Fi Love (2011) - Selfreleased (Digital EP)Cool Hunter (2010) - Ginotonico (CD album)Particelle (2008) - Selfreleased (Digital EP)Colpi Di Sole (2006) - Autoplate / Thinner (Netalbum)Nadador (2005) - Autoplate / Thinner (Netalbum)Funicular (2005) - Realaudio (Netalbum)Suave (2004) - Autoplate / Thinner (Netalbum)

PRESS QUOTES / REVIEWS“Fernando Lagreca vuelve a confirmarse como uno de nuestros artistas más certeros a la hora de desarrollar gemas electrónicas de marcado carácter pop. Ojalá deje de ser un secreto entre el público mayoritario porque se merece ésta y muchas otras alabanzas.” BLISSTOPIC

“Un nuevo avance en la carrera compositiva de este uruguayo donde abundan los paisajes sintéticos, un espíritu pop bastante gris-oscuro y alegatos constantes hacia géneros que nunca mueren como el slo-mo disco, la gélida new wave o el glo-fi más bohemio.”CRAZY FRIDAY "Every record of Fernando sounds like a statement and it’s a bit different from the others. Exactly what we love – the diversity of art." C-HEADS "Su anterior disco ya fue un ejemplo a seguir de elegancia y soltura, sólo hace falta escuchar su hit Silly Girl Meets Silly Boy para ver por dónde iban los tiros. Este Control no deja de ser un disco pop, donde el arma secreta utilizada es el equilibrio. Todo está perfectamente equilibrado: la nostalgia y el optimismo, la melodía y el ritmo… Sin complicaciones, arreglos pop, momentos italo disco, sin abusar de nada, ni dejando espacios muertos, todo tiene un sentido en Control.” SELF"Un vaivén placentero de melodías ensoñadoras de las de cerrar los ojos y marcarse un sonrisón en la boca” OCI MAGAZINE “Control” te invita a lo contrario de su propio título: las ganas de perder el control, de baile, de despertar a la vida a través de una danza nada macabra, se filtran a través de las grietas del chillwave, de tal forma que la melancolía inmobilista y siempre ombliguista (para bien) se conjuga en presente perfecto con ese electropop que voló desde los 80 hasta nuestro siglo gracias a lo depurado de sus líneas y contornos streamline.” FANTASTIC PLASTIC MAG

"...electronic musicians like Autechre, Air and Ulrich Schnauss have mastered this art to the core, and after a couple of very successful attempts, Uruguayan producer Fernando Lagreca can proudly walk amongst them.”SOUNDS AND COLOURS “Lagreca’s masterful ability to slowly unpack an idea across long, crescendo-filled instrumental passages makes songs such as “Run” and “Living Light” feel like watching inclement weather slowly roll in, tension teased out until the very last moment. But Lagreca isn’t just creating genre-cloudy compositions — he’s making it rain ones and zeros. Careful, Control’s breezy electronic vibe might just blow you away.” MTV IGGY"..El pincel se mueve al ritmo de unos beats sosegados, y comienza el ritual. Tu pulso se mueve al dictado de los acordes. Un océano apacible con oleaje amenazante de sintetizadores…" FAN ON FIRE

"Fernando Lagreca, una vez más nos vuelve a encoger el corazón, con el lanzamiento de su nuevo trabajo en Irregular..." NRF MAGAZINE "Control es el nuevo LP de Fernando Lagreca en Irregular. Uno de esos álbumes que se te quedan dentro cuando le das 3 escuchas seguidas."NEONIZED

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