Concret & Chelsea Hines mint new Tráfico Music sub-label La Vida Discos with the superb leftfield album, ‘Symptoms Of’. The 10 tracks act as a memoir of the music the artists grew up with and pay tribute to the soundtracks and photographs of their childhoods. Italo-Mexican Diego Angelico Escobar aka Concret and singer and musician Chelsea Hines conceived ‘Symptoms Of’ during the lockdown of 2020. Classically trained drummer and former post-punk band member Concret has long been a vital player in the Latin American scene. He is a regular guest on the likes of Red Light Radio and releases on Correspondant, Motordiscs and Toy Tonics as well as his Tráfico Music imprint. The thinking behind this new album was to leave artistic comfort zones and explore new ideas through improvisation and jam sessions with “no references, no boundaries and no limits, just a melancholy awareness that we were leaving behind an era not just as musicians but as individuals.” The resulting record is a beguiling mix of minimal synth, wave, dark disco and left-of-centre electronica. And here comes a mesmerising Back To Mine 10 from Chelsea Hines…
1.Gillian Welch (Time the Revelator)
This is a great album to listen to while driving on a Louisiana highway at sunset. It somehow makes everything feel incredibly sad and very okay all at the same time.
2.Sven Wunder (Eastern Flowers)
It’s difficult to choose only one Sven Wunder album as they all explore different cultural styles. Somehow no matter what instrumentation he’s using, his genius melodies and harmonies are unmistakably his, and unmistakably beautiful.
![Sven Wunder - Eastern Flowers (Doğu Çiçekleri) [Full Album] (2020)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4DsKFVsMyAo/0.jpg)
3.Nobukazu Takemura (10th)
This entire album plays upon the cool inner child within all of us while giving us some really interesting jazz licks and harmonies to be left impressed by.
![Nobukazu Takemura – 10th [320kbps] Full album](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HG6hcDXIJhU/0.jpg)
4.The Beach Boys (Pet Sounds)
A classic album with beautiful instrumentation, mixing and mastering that has served as an inspiration for many projects.
5. Invisible (El Jardín de los presentes)
This album introduced me to the world of 70’s Argentinian prog rock (which is vast by the way!) It transports me to a sepia colored square in the middle of Buenos Aires every time.
6.Dorothy Ashby (Afro Harping)
This album showed me a whole new world of jazz harping and is my go to album to listen to while cooking up dinner or while having a romantic evening.
7. Cocteau Twins (Four Calendar Café)
Every lyric on this album hits home in my heart, not to mention the unique and inspiring guitar sounds and Elizabeth Frazer’s insane vocalizing. I have learned more as a vocalist singing along to these songs than from any other artist.
8. Air (Talkie Walkie)
I would go ahead and say Air is my favorite band and my sound has been incredibly inspired by their combination of acoustic instruments and spacey vocal/synth sounds. This album is sexy, funny, honest and contemplative and its almost always an appropriate time to listen.
9.The Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
This album hits my in my little 90’s child heart. Songs like “Spaceboy” get me singing (screaming?) along to every word in my best Billy Corgan voice.
10. Judee Sill (Judee Sill)
As a good friend once put it, this is the kind of album that “my mom would clean and cry to”.
Artist: Concret & Chelsea Hines
Title: Symptoms Of
Label: La Vida Discos
Release: 22nd February 2022
Cat No: LVD 001
Format: Digital
Concret & Chelsea Hines
