Los Jardines de Bruselas

“The High Channel” es el nuevo track del periodista y músico Ezequiel de la Parra bajo el nombre de Los Jardines de Bruselas. Todos sus tracks nacen en las largas noches en la intimidad de su habitación en Buenos Aires, donde un sintetizador, que tiene como base notas espaciales, y un intro que contiene capas de alegría, hacen que a los pocos segundos se sienta el despegue emocionante de una nave; toques de melancolía y de melodías atmosféricas que provoca ser escuchadas en loop infinito en la azotea de tu edificio mientras ves las estrellas. En otras palabras, es una pieza bastante pegajosa, para lo que quieres mover los hombros llegada la mitad del coro, así estés sentado frente a la compu revisando el mail o checando tu facebook: Ezequiel tiene ese tipo de voces que me resultan bastante interesantes, porque si cierras los ojos puedes confundirte y no saber quien está detrás del reverb.

mp3: Los Jardines de Bruselas – “The High Channel”

Puedes escucharlo en su soundclud y si esos menos de dos minutos te dejan con ganas de escuchar más de Los jardines de bruselas, en su web puedes descargar gratis Floating in Dreams, su disco debut, lanzado en el 2011 bajo el label Mamushkadogs. - Matinee As Hell

The other day, while wrapping up a picnic with friends, we came to the conclusion that Sunday at dusk is by far the most melancholy time of the week. Especially if you had a great weekend, there's a delightfully exhausting residue of adrenaline and joy, mixed with the sadness of knowing that without fail, tomorrow will be Monday morning.

The new album Floating In Dreams by Argentine band Los Jardines de Bruselas feels like a sweetly sad Sunday evening. Clearly influenced by the Pixies, it's ethereal and joyful yet melancholy and introspective. "Prisoner Of The Past" is an exhilarating ride through a thick forest of airy vocals and digital chirps.
- NPR Music

Floating in Dreams,
LOS JARDINES DE BRUSELAS
Independent, Argentina
Rating: 71
by Blanca Méndez

Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden is a tale in which the discovery of a landscape that's just as real as it is magical inspires a change in the story's young protagonist and in the pieced-together family she comes to be a part of. Floating in Dreams also occupies that fact-fantasy Bildungsroman territory. As the title suggests, the album sounds like a reverie. Even the album cover, which looks like blurry college brochure art, suggests a dreamy coming of age. Ezequiel de la Parra, the man behind Los Jardines de Bruselas, recorded the entire album on his computer and created a surreal kind of reality, like those dreams that you’d swear actually happened.

“Changing, Just Growing” evokes a final hometown summer with high school friends. You know that once September comes around, everything will change for good. You will all go your separate ways and, no matter how sincere your promise to stay friends forever, you somehow know that you'll all break that promise. This track expresses that fear of change, especially of growing up. There’s also a sense of resignation present in the vocals, knowing that the change is inevitable and giving in without a fight. The steady guitar acts as an anchor, a reassurance that growing up isn’t as bad as it sounds, which is comforting even if you don’t believe it. "Prisoner of the Past" brings up other concerns about growing up. This time, it’s worry about being left behind by those who are moving on, about being scared to leave behind what was and, consequently, becoming a prisoner to it.

With playful bird chirps in the intro and a keyboard melody that’s so light that it almost evaporates, “Fog in Australia” sounds exactly like what you would expect a foggy morning in Australia to sound like. It’s a shame that the keyboards at the end become a little too loud and brash for the song and kill the lazy-hazy vibes. The murmuring, echoing “Josefina” is the darkest track on the album and the only one in Spanish. The song’s almost passive confrontation and the calmingly repetitive melody that gradually and beautifully fades away is a perfect way to close the album

Floating in Dreams’ strengths lie in its cohesiveness, in sticking to a concept without getting too conceptual. This is sometimes problematic, when De La Parra skews a bit too literal, like in the rainfall on “Love Storm.” For the most part, though, the layers of sound and the way those sounds linger produce a lovely effect. There are also some issues with the vocals, whether it’s simply De La Parra’s style or perhaps his accent, he is often difficult to understand (in “Prisoner of the Past” when he says “like a prison” it sounds like “a Capri Sun”). But this is just a minor detractor to an overall pleasant album with some of the best and timeliest song progression that I’ve heard on an indie pop album in a while. - Club Fonograma

‘Floating in Dreams’ is the first album by Los Jardines de Bruselas, Ezequiel de la Parra’s solo project. Every song has been recorded in a bedroom in Buenos Aires, with a computer and some instruments, during many long nights of 2010. Though the album creates different atmospheres, there is a central concept behind every song: experimenting as much as possible without losing the ‘pop’ identity. That is how the songs have been conceived. These woozy melodies seem to stem from a restless dream and, while they go around, floating in the air, they paint warm surreal landscapes.

Floating in Dreams’ is available for free download and free listening HERE - Sick of the Radio

Los Jardines de Bruselas is the solo project of Ezequiel de la Parra who recorded the tracks that make up his debut, Floating in Dreams, in a bedroom in Buenos Aires, with a computer and some instruments with the explicit goal of experimenting as much as possible without losing the ‘pop’ identity. From that standpoint, the album is definitely a success. While Floating in Dreams is one of the more unique discoveries from my inbox recently, it nonetheless retains a definite sense of familiarity. For me that familiarity calls to mind the crisp ambiance of blue skies and sun after rain showers on an afternoon spent exploring the nooks, crannies, food and record shops of San Telmo, Palermo Viejo or Recoleta. Strange, fanciful but nonetheless very real. Album opener “Diamonds” which features clean, woozy psych-pop melodies that bubble, hiss and unwind in delightful and unexpected ways is very indicative of what you can expect from much of the rest of the album. Things slow down for the swaying “Changing, Just Growing.” Download it from Los Jardines de Bruselas Bandcamp page. - Turntable Kitchen

Ezequiel de la Parra, the man behind Los Jardines de Bruselas, takes dream-pop to a whole new level. The 24-year-old Argentinian bedroom producer literally finds inspirations in dreams to create music, and the result is lush, shimmering soundscapes and hazy, metaphorical lyrics.

The young musician is gearing up to release his sophomore album, Light and Glow, on September 28, and today we are happy to premiere the record's second single, "On The Moon (Together)."

This track begins with warbling synthesizers, echoing guitars and simple percussion as de la Parra confesses "I can only find you when I'm sleepin' / I can only see you when I'm dreamin'," as he transports his listener to an otherworldly atmosphere.

Listen to Los Jardines De Bruselas' "On The Moon (Together)" below. - Prefix Mag