Cantina is the Italian word for "cellar," the dark and rather cold place where time, wood, air and silence magically transorfm tedious grape juice into inebriating, delicious wine. Cantina is also the name of Renata Zeiguer’s growing musical project, a band so quiet that one could say it flirts with silence, and so charming and dreamy to sound magic. Their seven track debut EP ‘Horizons‘ opens with airy ballad ‘When Your Eyes,’ that sounds like an irresistible siren call coming out of an old wooden gramophone, where a lush, acoustic arrangement slowly overwhelms a melody so pristine it could only be conceived in the the squalid corners of Bushwick. All we can gather from the lyrics is: "and if you ask me to…" – which is really all a siren should say to a hungover NYC-life sailor. The rest of the record offers similar atmospheres, althought at times more upbeat (‘Stay Like This’) and more electric (‘Fields’) but always dominated by Renata’s celestial soprano and her otherworldly melodies, and well supported by an unobtrusive musical background that perfectly serves each song.
The band has gathered some serious attention from local bookers: Cantina is schedlued to play Glasslands on 08.16, Palisades on 09.18 and Mercury Lounge on 10.16.
We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Best mellow songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!