O

O is the sharper of the two records this duo has made, and the reason is how it handles time. Six pieces run close to thirty-five minutes, and Frank Rosaly lets a hand-drum figure hold long enough to shift under the listener's ear. His drumming works less as a clock than as ground that tilts, with loose, overlapping pulses drawn from bomba, plena, rumba and cumbia without settling into any one of them.

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti builds the surface around that pulse with synthesizers, organ, autoharp and bells, while processed noise sits low in the mix and dub-style echo lets tones arrive and vanish. Insect and frog recordings surface in the final stretch, giving the record a damp, outdoor air that studio sound alone could not supply. Her voice appears sparingly, so when it does, it lands as an event rather than a frame.

The sequencing carries the argument. The record opens with the hypnotic cymbal-and-hand-drum trance of "Escondida" and closes on "Sueño," a rough, communal-sounding recording of music and revelry that seems caught rather than constructed. That move from studio abstraction toward something close to found document is the EP's quiet thesis, and it makes the whole run feel rooted.