 This one's
another surprise hit this year, fellas. Till recently, I knew nothing
of the ever-flourishing Argentinian scene other than Los Natas and
Dragonauta. So El Festival De Los Viajes reviewed earlier and this,
have come as a double bumper. Both the bands share a few things in
common though. Martin Rodriguez plays bass for both the bands,
they're both on Aqualatan Records and they both have an affinity
towards the world of psychedelia.
But similarities pretty
much end there. La Distancia is Poseidotica's second one out, the
first being Intramundo. The band says this one is more mature than
the all out assault of the first one and I can imagine. La Distancia
is one mood swinging slab of psychedelic progressive metal.
The album begins
Floyd-gone-jazz-like with some delectable theremin, and the song
takes you through a dramatic series of mathy heavy riffs
complimenting it with some hypnotic psychedelic passages. While its
manic guitar-bass-drum interplay is evocative of your classic
progressive metal act, it still upholds an underlying heaviness a la
Sabbath (well why not?) and the 70s spacey noise.
The band never thinks
twice before experimenting and it shows in their songwriting as
nothing they've attempted here sounds too hokey during the forty six
minutes that this album lasts. There is 70s hard rock, math metal,
prog, psychedelia, jazz and country going hand in hand, often in the
same songs and the results are rather spectacular.
La Distancia is a bit
ambitious. It's a concept album about..um...interpersonal human
relations, in the band's words, so I may as well go with it. The story printed in
the monstrous twenty page booklet is in some high-class Spanish so I
only have these instrumental pieces to talk about. This is a
difficult album to get into mainly because of its complexity but it's
well worth it at the proverbial end of the day. It's an outstanding
find and a band that I'll be keeping an eye out for in the future.
Label: Aquatalan
Records
Year of Release: 2008
http://myspace.com/poseidotica
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