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A dainty and metaphysical menagerie of ambient minimalism wafts throughout Rio En Medio’s debut album The Bride Of Dynamite. The record is full of other-dimensional airy folk wonder, and songwriter and vocalist Danielle Stech-Homsey makes mysterious musical blessings with her angelic vocals and an array of neatly layered sound clips. Rio En Medio produce an eerie chill throughout The Bride Of Dynamite, as ghoulish samples fuse with luminous vocals, hypnotically present on “Everyone Is Someone’s,” and scattered ukuleles mesh with modulated narration on “Joey Was On The Plane.” The album reaches an unusual artistic altitude with “The Baghdad’s Merchant’s Son,” an Iraqi political travelogue set to a sensory drum-and-bass backdrop. Evoking exotic and perhaps imaginary locations, Dynamite successful forges a safe and intriguing passage for the less traveled of new world listeners.