The third track in my All-Time Top 25 Tunes (is it Tunes? Or should it be tunes? Anyway) is number 14, ‘Contratempo’ by Lali Puna.
I love this piece because it’s an interesting – yet not challenging – blend of musical unexpectedness.
The Bavarian electro-experimentalists throw the listener a curve ball with the opening staccato pulse.
This is swiftly followed by the Portuguese voice-over. And that voice-over is the only human voice you’ll hear in the piece, while the deliciously melodic instrumentals carry the listener along on a sea of calm.
This track means so much to me, not because I’m an arty-farty fan of what we have learnt to call ‘world music’.
No, this track means so much to me because of the the elegant simplicity with which it is constructed.