Guitarist Nina Garcia – to release new album ‘Bye Bye Bird’

After a decade of performing concerts under the Mariachi guise, Nina Garcia has finally unveiled her unique approach in Bye Bye Bird, her first album under  her name. Bye Bye Bird is her second solo album to be released by Ideologic Organ in February 2025.

With no pretence or demonstration, the album is a captivating blend of chiaroscuro, melodies, and raw emotion.

Nina Garcia’s album takes on an almost documentary-like quality by adopting a simple approach to gesture and sound recording. It offers a candid portrayal of a moment, a lack, a state, and a breathtaking energy. With ostinato as her only credo, Nina Garcia’s music is an experiment in freedom, where the peaks answer the abysses, and the power of movement and the emotion of sound serves as her compass.

From very short (01:28) to never very long (07:34), the eight tracks that make up this set explore a moment, a space, a mechanism, an intention or a way of doing things. As a common feature of almost all these pieces (all but one, the last), Nina Garcia explores a new technique. She adds to her instrumentation, reduced to the essentials (a guitar, a pedal and an amp), an electromagnetic microphone which, when held in hand, makes it possible to listen in on the exact zones where the vibration of the string creates a sound amid vast spaces of silence. The guitar is unplugged, and the body/instrument relationship changes in dimension.

Nina Garcia has been actively moving the art of noise guitar into surprising and intriguing new spaces. She has been at it for some time now, a bit of a secret weapon all the while hiding in plain sight. As I listen to her music and ruminate upon seeing her perform it brings me to a realization which I have with very few musicians: the ego inherent in making art can be transcended through a purity of direct action. At least that’s the feeling I have when experiencing Nina’s music which comes across as serious and radical and wholly engaged in the moment of its creative impulse. With Bye Bye Bird she delivers her most exalted and sublime collection of recordings for all adventurous hearts to hear. A fantastic album.

Thurston Moore, London 2024 

LISTEN TO TRACKS “BYE BYE BIRD” AND “BALLADE DES SOUFFLES“

PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW

In this series of variations, you can get caught up in masses of noise seen from very, very close up, evocations of melodies in the making, feedback on ridgelines, pulsations that hold their own, modulations weakened by exhaustion and harmonic bursts that hint at better days to come.

Neither hopelessly chthonic nor beatifically ethereal, Bye Bye Bird is a sum of musical pieces that make a whole and give voice to echoes of what has been, the presence of what is and the hope of what will be, a record movement in the form of flight and salvation.

–Arnaud Riviere, Paris November 2024

BYE BYE BIRD TRACK LISTING:
1  – BYE BYE BIRD [audio]
2 – LE LEURRE
3 – BALLADE DES SOUFFLES [audio]
4 – PICK-UP TENTATIVE
5 – DANS L’ALIOS
6 – HARSH HOPPING
7 – AUBÉ
8 – WHISTLING MEMORIES

PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE ONLINE NOW