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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ Juan Wauters - Real Life Situations ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ Juan Wauters ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Real Life Situations ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Indie CAT#....[ CT338D ████ ████ LABEL...[ Captured Tracks ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 32:45 REL.DATE[ 04.30.2021 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 21 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 75,38 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 A JPW Headspace 2020 01:04 ████ ████ 02 Monsoon (with Homeshake) 02:14 ████ ████ 03 Sentimiento Queens 00:18 ████ ████ 04 Locura 02:44 ████ ████ 05 Ventana 00:04 ████ ████ 06 Presentation (with Nick Hakim & Benamin) 02:57 ████ ████ 07 Unity (with Cola Boyy) 03:29 ████ ████ 08 Real (with Mac DeMarco) 04:18 ████ ████ 09 Keep Cool 00:12 ████ ████ 10 Carmina Pensa 02:11 ████ ████ 11 A Peter Pan Donuts Conversation 00:27 ████ ████ 12 Lion Dome (with Air Waves) 02:16 ████ ████ 13 JPW Talking 00:16 ████ ████ 14 Acordes (with Tall Juan) 02:08 ████ ████ 15 Bailando 00:16 ████ ████ 16 Estas Escuchando (with El David Aguilar) 03:13 ████ ████ 17 Crack Dabbling 00:52 ████ ████ 18 A JPW Theme Song 00:43 ████ ████ 19 Yendo 00:53 ████ ████ 20 Powder 01:37 ████ ████ 21 NY Weaz 00:33 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 32:45 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://juanwauters.bandcamp.com/album/real- ████ ████ life-situations ████ ████ ████ ████ We think we know what we want. The digital age ████ ████ has made it easier than ever for us to get it - ████ ████ we can search, skip, and customize to our ████ ████ heartsÆ content. But something is lost in this ████ ████ exchange - without an external perspective, how ████ ████ can we know what weÆre missing? Juan Wauters ████ ████ understands this. ItÆs why heÆs such a big fan ████ ████ of radio - it takes some of the power out of ████ ████ our hands, opening us up to new sounds, new ████ ████ possibilities. This is the effect he sought to ████ ████ reproduce on his fifth album, Real Life ████ ████ Situations, a multifaceted ode to surrendering ████ ████ control and taking life as it comes. References ████ ████ to radio abound on its 21 tracks, and with good ████ ████ reason - the album spans genres, narrators, ████ ████ languages, and perspectives with the ease of ████ ████ spinning a rotary knob. ████ ████ ████ ████ Until recently, Wauters had viewed his solo ████ ████ project as just that - a singular expression of ████ ████ his artistic vision. A trip through Latin ████ ████ America while recording his last album, ████ ████ however, laid the groundwork for a different ████ ████ approach. Inviting local musicians to ████ ████ contribute to the songs he was working on ████ ████ produced a collection unlike any of his ████ ████ previous work, infused with the musical ████ ████ traditions of each country heÆd visited. As a ████ ████ result, 2018Æs La Onda De Juan Pablo and its ████ ████ follow-up, Introducing Juan Pablo, were ████ ████ WautersÆ most expansive and sonically diverse ████ ████ records to date, tracing both his Uruguayan ████ ████ roots and his travellersÆ spirit. ████ ████ ████ ████ Newly eager to collaborate, he began reaching ████ ████ out to friends, travelling across North America ████ ████ to record with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA ████ ████ Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David ████ ████ Aguilar, and more. The resulting tracks are ████ ████ united more so by ethos than genre or style: ████ ████ Wauters lends his chameleonic songwriting to ████ ████ experiments in hip-hop (ôUnityö), lo-fi R&B ████ ████ (ôMonsoonö), and deft indie folk (ôLion Domeö). ████ ████ After a few of these sessions, an image began ████ ████ to take shape of an album comprised entirely of ████ ████ collaborations. Then came the pandemic. ████ ████ ████ ████ With his recording plans - which included ████ ████ travel to Europe and South America - put on ████ ████ pause, Wauters stepped away from his own music ████ ████ for a while, taking refuge in his home base of ████ ████ New York City. He turned instead to OutKast, a ████ ████ group he admires for their creative ████ ████ nonconformity. This time, one song in ████ ████ particular stuck out as pertinent. Life can be ████ ████ brutal, BigBoi observes on ████ ████ ôSpottieOttieDopalisciousö, but it can also be ████ ████ beautiful, so long as youÆre ôman enough to ████ ████ handle real life situations.ö The simple truism ████ ████ stuck with Wauters, and when he returned to his ████ ████ album at the beginning of the summer, he had ████ ████ not only a title, but a new plan completely. ████ ████ Mining older songs, phone notes, new material, ████ ████ and snippets from TV and YouTube, Wauters let ████ ████ go of the structure heÆd imagined, opting ████ ████ instead to craft an aural document of the year ████ ████ through his eyes. ████ ████ ████ ████ Despite the circumstances of its creation, Real ████ ████ Life Situations is not a quarantine record. In ████ ████ many ways itÆs the opposite of one, taking ████ ████ togetherness as both its subject and its ████ ████ primary medium. Pre-lockdown collaborations ████ ████ like ôPresentationö and ôRealö playfully offset ████ ████ WautersÆ more pensive solo tracks, and even in ████ ████ its sparest moments the album pulses with life. ████ ████ This is due in part to an impressive array of ████ ████ interludes and samples, most of which are field ████ ████ recordings that Wauters collects on his phone, ████ ████ ranging from the innocuous (ôA Peter Pan Donuts ████ ████ Conversationö) to the intense (ôCrack ████ ████ Dabblingö). Under his care, these small moments ████ ████ become coordinates for the peaks and valleys of ████ ████ human experience, coloring the album with ████ ████ WautersÆ unique shade of realism. ôSome people ████ ████ think IÆm an optimistö, he explains, ôbut IÆm ████ ████ not. IÆm always seeing all sides of things.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ Of course, Wauters himself never disappears in ████ ████ the boisterous crowd. Indeed, some of Real Life ████ ████ SituationsÆ most tender moments are completely ████ ████ his own; like when, over a deceptively jovial ████ ████ melody on ôLocuraö, he tries to remember the ████ ████ feeling of being at a concert full of people. ████ ████ On ôPowderö, he gently encourages his subject ████ ████ to embrace their true nature, promising over a ████ ████ delicate string arrangement, ôyou're that you ████ ████ you knew.ö Themes of loneliness, personal ████ ████ growth, patience, and companionship arise again ████ ████ and again; we can feel Wauters navigating a ████ ████ rapidly-changing world in real time. ████ ████ ████ ████ It is this interplay between genre-hopping ████ ████ eclecticism and earnest, plain-spoken ████ ████ observation that makes Real Life Situations ████ ████ come alive. ItÆs something Wauters is known ████ ████ for, and for all its collaboration, this album ████ ████ could only have been made by him. Jubilant ████ ████ choruses and spoken word poetry bleed into city ████ ████ noises and overheard conversations. Real ████ ████ freedom, the album suggests, comes not from ████ ████ gaining control, but from accepting its ████ ████ artifice. Like the programming on a radio ████ ████ station, thereÆs something here for everyone. ████ ████ All you have to do is listen. ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. G R E E T S .···. ▄▓▄██▀▀ │ ▀ . ▄▓▓▄ │ ▀▀▀█▄▄ ▄▄█▀▀▀ │ ▄▓▓▄ . ▀▀ ▀▀▄ FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET ▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄ ▄▓▓▄ ▀▄ RIP kHz ▄▀ ▄▓▓▄ ▄ . ▀ ▀ ▀▓▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄.···. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .···.▄ . ▀ ▀▀ ▀▓▀ ▀ .