on green vinyl - On Ana Karen G. Barajas's audio messages you can hear birds singing, a baby breathing. She talks about her music from her home on a Hong Kong island, eight hours ahead of Greenwich. She breaks with the tranquility and reality around her to announce the release of Bestiaria, the new offering from Karen y los Remedios.
Ana Karen had to go through a tidal wave of events to finally produce the successor to 2023's Silencio, surviving a bout of Covid, giving birth to a son and writing a PhD. The women of Bestiaria all emerge from these experiences: these goddesses and creatures from different cultures and legends embody the songs on this album, unapologetically reclaiming all things feminine in this world, asking no one's permission.
Fronted by Ana Karen—with Z.A.M.P.A. (Guillermo Berbeyer) on guitars and Mexico City producer Jiony (Jonathan Muriel)—Karen y los Remedios have found fertile ground for their unique sound in the musical landscape of the Americas. Their new album re-treads the trail they blazed on Silencio, cumbia rebajada with a sheen of trip-hop and dreamy pop, all rooted in Ana Karen's ethereal vocals.
The music that inspires this Mexican three-piece has always been part of their lives, growing up in the barrio. Now, unleashed on the world, they can unravel the loose threads of the sounds they were raised with.
The new record is steeped in a similar Latino vibe to Silencio. The same signature style is here, but there are also songs that verge on ballads, along with traditional cumbia and powerful cumbiatón and 420 styles.
| A1 | Curandera |
| A2 | Mayahuel |
| A3 | Ixchel |
| A4 | Espejismos |
| A5 | Nidra |
| A6 | Creación del universo |
| B1 | Ninfa |
| B2 | Alucarda |
| B3 | Las moiras |
| B4 | La bruja |
| B5 | Satanás |
| B6 | Quimera |
