Music maker Xenia Rubinos uses her voice to create beats and harmonies from scratch. American, born to CubaRican parents, Xenia's music tends to play off the cliché of the Latina woman, "It's an image of these magnificent wild women I grew up around, mixed with me today in Brooklyn." Her debut record, Magic Trix, bears traces of indie rock, Spanish folk, R&B, and punk while boldly announcing a sound that's all her own.                                

Recorded in a sweaty Brooklyn basement, Magic Trix is a colorful illustration of both Xenia's quirky songwriting and the band's live show. Co-producer/drummer Marco Buccelli, who helped shape the record's sound, says, "We experimented with distortion and having an electronic aesthetic on my acoustic drum set. Our overall philosophy was to use what we know and what we have around us to strike a balance between analogic live sound and today's digital perfection." The record was engineered, mixed, and mastered by Jeremy Loucas who has worked with Grammy Award winner Esperanza Spalding, Lulu Gainsbourg, and Terry Lynne Carrington, among many others. Buccelli's experimentation paired with Loucas' technical prowess scored the team the punchy, live, aggressive sound they were looking for.

Opening track "Help" tells the story of Rosa, a witch doctor who lives under a bridge with her two children and heals people in exchange for money. Jump-started by a quirky vocal loop, "Ultima" turns into a danceable reggaeton-like proclamation about being the last one in line at a Havana bank. The album's single, "Hair Receeding" is a rocked out slow jam featuring a big crunchy organ sound and head nodding drum beat. Xenia delivers cheeky Spanish wordplay on tracks like "Los Mangopaunos" and "Pan y Café", the latter of which features the band's bassist, Adam Minkoff, on a car engine-like bassline. Buccelli's ecstatic drum theatrics paired with R&B inflected vocals and distorted keyboards on "Cherry Tree" recall a certain Brooklyn indie sound, while maintaining a distinctly fresh flavor. Having toured Europe and US, including showcases at last year's SXSW, the band continues touring in support of their new album this year.

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