Album: Drift / To become
Artists: Miguel A. García & Daniel Simon
Reference: RT_005 hybridaRT_label
Review by Rubén Gutierrez:
We don't need to think back to the London riots of August 2011 to find ourselves in a Ballardian context. Figures like the Spanish employment minister Fátima Báñez, the president of the Community of Madrid (Spain), Esperanza Aguirre or the magnificent Angela Merkel would have been characters that border on the implausible, and could have even been included in Ballard's dystopian visions. Thanks to the aggravation and extension of penal consequences in marches, the hardening of the Spanish penal code intends to slow down the likely escalade of civil insurrection provoked by the State's aggressive economic and social reforms, closing a context that, once again, leads us to the democratic agony and depletion of resources narrated by James G. Ballard. As regards discourse, for Ballard these resources are a search for bridges that will make certain metaphors explicit. Affirming that Miguel A. García and Daniel Simon's music in drift/to become could have been produced in the catacombs of Ballardian cities presided by cathedral-like shopping centres and immaculate airports, is all the more evident for certain readers who affirm that this music is without a doubt a product of a social context governed by people like Mariano Rajoy or Angela Merkel. But, in any case, that's the way it is. If you doubt it, I urge you to listen to drift/to become in your car, at night, as you travel with no clear destination down a bypass of any European city.
