A Milers de Somnis de Distància

Santi Careta is an intriguing Catalan musician. Contributing to bands like Astrio, Rodrigo Laviña y Su Combo and Alba Careta i Henrio, Careta moves swiftly between jazz, pop-rock and experimental settings, proving just as comfortable in a classical environment as with electronics. But it is perhaps in his singer-songwriter skin that Careta fully blooms as an idiosyncratic troubadour. A Milers de Somnis de Distància (A Thousand Dreams Away) is a stunning set of songs focussed on ‘various forms of distancing.’ Folky at their core, these songs often carry a stranger twist – ‘Sol Sol’ and ‘A Milers de Somnis de Distància’ are two extraordinary examples of Careta’s ability to navigate through delicate songs with a somewhat unsettling feeling. Santi Careta is surely acquainted with the indie folk of Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Rodrigo Amarante and Elliott Smith, but he spices up his delicate signature on A Milers de Somnis de Distància with some occasional and quite fitting hip-hop rhythm figures (‘Parla’m’) and a horn quartet (‘Brúixola’). Do check him out.