Something eerie about Noah Zayden and his track No Sale La Luna is something that lingers with you even after the song ends. It strikes with this air of intimacy and vastness simultaneously, and it draws you in this moody nocturnal world with the very first note. The production is spacious in the most desirable fashion so that each element has the space to breathe and yet this constant beat that keeps everything on track and going.
What stands out to me most is that the voice of Zayden is as uncooked and unashamed as it can be. No fuss making here, no trying to make a pretty of things or roll off the roughness. With this load of lived-in experience that makes you believe every word, his voice cuts through the mix with real emotion. You are able to hear the isolation, the quest to find the meaning in the dark, the perseverance behind the struggle.
Another piece of enrichment to the storytelling is the bilingual approach, which is the weaving of Spanish and English. It is not imposed but it is a natural one, as though the languages that his emotions speak. The music itself is catchy and suggestive, the one that stays in your head hours after listening to it and sends you back to listen to it one more time to hear something that you may have overlooked the first time you heard it.
Here there is depth that is worth returning to play again and again. This feeling of walking lonely at night through deserted streets with smoke in the air, trying to find something you are not quite sure of the name of, is created by the atmospheric production. It is sad, but not self-pitying, sincere but not pompous. No Sale La Luna is pure art, as the artist is both vulnerable and strong at the same time. This song has the right replay value as it unveils itself every time you listen to it. Powerful, expressive work, which is heard at the deeper level.