Juana Molina is an Argentinian singer/songwriter, but don't mention the L word to her. "That word really hurts because it has put a certain kind of music together that I really think I don't belong to," she says. "I associate Latin with salsa and Central American music, or even Shakira and Ricky Martin. When record stores put my stuff in that category I think that no one's going to find me there. No one that is interested in Latin will buy my record because it's the wrong label. I think I'm there just because I sing in Spanish."

She laughs, but there's undoubtedly an element of truth in what she says. Molina's music has certainly very little to do with the likes of Ricky Martin, and far more to do with avant-garde experimentalists, both old and new. "My father bought King Crimson's Larks' Tongues In Aspic when I was a little girl, and I enjoyed it so much that I listened to it every day for five years."