Over the course of four albums Juana Molina has converted a career as one of her native Argentina's most successful comedians into an ongoing investigation into the possibilities of capturing and shifting sounds; creating a deceptively beautiful body of work full of repetition, harmony and mood shifts of beguiling intensity.

On the surface of Segundo (2003) & Tres Cosas (2004) there are shared elements with her contemporaries operating at the nexus of song writing, soul baring and electronic production. But beyond the sound of digital textures and acoustic guitar is a finely wrought layering and re-orientation of linear melodies and phrases. Behind the initial veneer of Latin American rhythms, nylon guitar strings and soft Spanish vocals are discordant phrases and rhythmic interventions: like Astrid Gilberto undergoing dream theory analysis

On her most recent album Son (2006) longer tracks like Un Beso Llega and Hay Que Ver Si Voy result in an almost maternal, submerged, listening experience; as if the subconscious is being slowly and carefully un-picked.

Juana uses her voice as an instrument in a similar fashion to the way rock bands use a guitar break as an emotional narrative. Sometimes she sounds like a scat woodland creature or at other times like Robert Wyatt at his most unfettered and ethereal.

Live Juana is flanked on stage by a bank of synths and delays and her performances are a three-way exchange between the artist, the audience and whatever processes and re-processes the moods dictate. A vocal line gets sequenced and repeated while a harmony is applied later in the piece once the original has become the rhythmic background to a wall of sound of deft complexity. Her past experiences on stage are evident in her confidence to take the audience deep into the physical space of a very loud sustained bass note or to unselfconsciously impersonate the sound of her neighbour's dog.

If you're missing out on her extraordinary world of contemporary magic realism on record or on song make sure you join us soon.