Música para Plátanos

Description

Música para Plátanos takes its name — and much of its inspiration — from the
group’s recording studio, situated in the heart of a banana plantation on the humid

north shore of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The ever-present sight of the green, sun-
drenched fields surrounding their weekly sessions seeped directly into the music:

improvised jams that are playful, layered, and deeply connected to place.
This release gathers a distilled selection from those sessions — a kind of “greatest
rotten hits” distinct from their ongoing Imaginary Island Music volumes.
The album functions as a living archive bringing together a distilled selection of
recordings spanning more than five years: from dusty, long-forgotten sessions to
evolving tunes that have become staples of the band’s live sets but have never
before been committed to record. These long-form sessions served as a petri dish for
the Lagoss sound, allowing their experiments to putrefy into their chaotic signature
strain of cyber-exotica, unstable kosmische or heavily-corroded dub.
The title obvs nods to Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, but the logic is inverted. Instead
of clean, ambient drift, the record inhabits a dense and fertile environment:
polyrhythmic structures, Latin-infused electronics, and shifting counter-tempos that
feel weighted by the local humidity.

Ultimately, Música para Plátanos is as much about the process as it is the place. Like
the plantation outside, the music is subject to the elements; the tracks change shape
depending on the heat of the day, what we drank, what we ate. It’s an unstable,
honest harvest of sound—shaped by the weather and the state(s) of mind alike.