scene 37 DEGREES NORTH
Apalósbreeze releases new solo album.
Photos © Catherine Nuza
BY ELENA SCIALTIEL
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nder the pen name of Apalósbreeze, soloist Liana Peklivanas put her lockdown time to good use. She recorded, mastered, polished and released her second album 37 Degrees North, launched just ahead of the Easter break on iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Deezer, and TikTok.
country and hip hop liberally thrown in.
She is her own producer, as she is a self-taught music engineer. She digitally recorded all instruments and of course her warm, soulful, assertive voice, which is the trait d’union of the ten songs featured, all so diverse in style, mood and tempo. An exquisite sort of poetic pop with jazz, ethnic, rock,
The album is titled after the latitude at which sits Alicante, the city where Liana grew up: “I was born in London, and my family moved to Spain when I was seven. I flew the nest and moved to Gibraltar at the age of twenty.”
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“This album is about the many emotional journeys I’ve faced in my life, coming to terms with my identity, my domestic situation, sleeping in my car, toxic relationships and much more,” the singer songwriter says.
The lyrics come from poems Liana
"It was definitely a cathartic process for me." wrote in the past and deemed suitable for musical arrangement. “A lot of emotions went into this album. I sing about the things that are often hard to talk about. It was definitely a cathartic process for me.” The song “Close My Eyes” carries the most important message in the album: “It’s hard for me to perform it straight to the end GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MAY 2020
