Nearly all the instruments were acoustic.
"We looked like a folk duo, we were acoustic and we realised how uncool it was to do funny songs," Jemaine explains.
Over the last few years, in sojourns to other clubs like Luna Star Cafe in North Miami, as well as under his own roof, Mr. Daniels noticed that the most interesting sounds coming out of these musicians were acoustic.
All of Los Fakires's instruments -- alto saxophone, guitar, bongos, guiro and cowbell -- were acoustic and portable, as if the band could pick up and play tableside at a cafe.
Given that melodically pretty ballads such as Perfect and Mary Jane were acoustic to start off with, and that four other tracks (You Learn, Ironic, You Oughta Know and Head Over Feet) appeared in acoustic form on 1999's Alanis Unplugged, this album hardly constitutes a radical brainwave.
The three indices that best connected the soundscape with landscape characteristics, ecological condition and bird species richness were acoustic entropy, acoustic evenness and the normalized difference soundscape index.
