By Todd Lavoie
Prepare to be riveted – loop-and-layer-loving Argentine experimentalist Juana Molina will be bringing her bewilderingly intricate electronic/acoustic hybrids to the stage of the Great American Music Hall Friday, Feb. 13.
If you’ve wondered how the impossibly layered constructions of her recordings could ever translate to the live setting – here’s your chance. Having caught her solo Swedish Hall performance from a couple of years ago, I can attest to her ability to mesmerize. Armed with an acoustic guitar and a battery of electronics and effects pedals, she didn’t merely perform her songs – instead, she built them from the ground up, laying down basic components at the beginning of each song and gradually adding them together one by one.