{"id":3612381,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612381/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-02T19:53:12-08:00","show":65825,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65825/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Corazón de la Isla","track_id":null,"recording_id":"d9255249-fe5c-4c1f-9960-ac24477f1ba8","artist":"Marina Fages","artist_ids":["0c2a530a-695b-463b-b8b6-c8d8b35f80cf"],"album":"El mundo pequeño","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"e276eebe-89bd-46bf-8820-355f9b79f226","labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"2023-07-28","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"“Corazón de la Isla,” Marina Fages builds a miniature world where punk urgency and careful arrangement coexist without canceling each other out. Her songwriting often feels tactile—strings, breath, and room tone treated like narrative tools—and here the instrumentation underlines that sensibility. The track’s core is guitar and bass driven momentum, anchored by Germán Rodríguez on drums, but the standout detail is Fages’ use of clarinet alongside her voice, adding an earthy, windswept color that shifts the emotional temperature. Rather than softening the song, those added timbres sharpen it: the melody feels more exposed, the rhythm more insistent, the chorus more like a vow than a refrain. Lyrically, the title suggests a heart that is both geography and condition—something you carry and something you’re stranded on—so the performance lands with that double pressure of intimacy and distance. Even when the arrangement opens up, there’s a sense of forward motion, as if the song is walking you through a landscape that keeps changing underfoot. It’s a track that rewards close listening: a simple surface with surprising texture, and a voice that can pivot from tenderness to defiance in a single line. The result feels deeply intimate, cinematic.\u2028Listen: https://marinafages.bandcamp.com/album/el-mundo-peque-o","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}