Sonically, R. Mendoza is derivative. From the first glimpses of his technique on Si Me Duermo…Choco we arrive at a harrowing dissonance, a dissension that seeks no resolution, one that leads to a somewhat erratic technique in style. It is perhaps in this atmospheric senselessness that Nordic Collective integrant R. Mendoza, however, shines the most, though without the initial curiosity for musical structuralism it is quite hard to become fascinated. Similar to different strains of downtempo, ambient, and lo-fi outings such as Black Moth Super Rainbow, Biosphere and early Helios, R. Mendoza finds a particularly interesting balance between minimalism and excess, this being its primary (however temporary) charm.
The relaxing sentiment that this album puts into effect is in fact its most salient quality, creating a thread to the musical excursion that works with the motif of the lucid dream. As a presentation of the connection the artist has to his experiences of dreaming, this album is perhaps more than average. In working with wide themes such as the ephemeral, the mythologized, and the experience of living life through dreamlike experience, the album leaves much to be desired. Si Me Duermo…Choco is fair, but could have been more than just another idiosyncratic electronic album passing itself off as something worth the artistic merit. It could have been influential to our sonic understanding, colliding with our own interpretation of dreams as an encounter of life-altering ramifications, all the while remaining entertaining and original.
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