Uno es árbol

Juana Molina has spent years exploring sound as if tending a secret garden. In Uno es árbol —a 4:28 piece— that work becomes tangible: there are no verses that repeat identically, nor rhythms that fall where one expects. What sounds like improvisation is, in reality, the result of years of workshops with Odín Schwartz recording Improviset sessions between 2019 and 2025, where the analog synthesizer and sequencers became the canvas. The album Doga, released on November 5, 2025, by her label Sonamos, is her first album of original compositions in eight years and the first in which she works with a producer since Rara in 1996.

But Uno es árbol is not just another track: it is proof that, sometimes, music grows better when it is not forced to follow a straight path.Recording took place in the home studio of General Pacheco, in the Greater Buenos Aires area, and wrapped up at Traslas, where Sonorámica lent them their equipment. There, between 2020 and 2025, Molina and her team let the loops —a technique she has pursued since learning to play guitar with her father, Horacio Molina, whom she once described as “weeks playing the same notes until entering a trance”— expand without constraints. They weren’t aiming to fill spaces, but to let the sound breathe.

And in that air, Uno es árbol found its shape: a song built on layers that don’t always align, like branches growing in different directions yet toward the same trunk.