Release
date: June 27th 2016. Label: Kozimik Artifactz.
Format: DD though CD/Vinyl will be released later this year.
Tierra
del Fuego – Tracklisting
1.Into
the Darkness 05:39
2.Sahara
Trip 04:13
3.Del
Vendaval 06:37
4.Astro
II 04:41
5.Cosmos
05:28
6.Venas
de la Tierra 07:21
7.Psiconauta
08:04
Band
Members:
D:
Guitar/Vox
M:
Bass
A:
Drums
Review:
I
was always passionate about the Latin-American Stoner Rock Scene.
Bands like Los Natas, Humo del Cairo, Ararat, Sutrah, Las
Diferencias, Taura, Los Antiguos, Cultura Tres, Banda de la Muerte,
Bandera de Niebla, Buthan, Aeroblues, De la Tierra are just few
example of the best (to my opinion) bands that ever trod the Latin
Stoner rock/metal scene. They all have something that makes me feel
good and at home, probably because of a certain genetic affinity. I
don’t know.
What
I really know is that, among so many amazing bands, in the last few
years Demonauta almost certainly rank among the top places. My review
of the new Demonauta’s album, Tierra del Fuego, might well have
ended with a simple “what the fuck”, nothing more, nothing less.
It was a long time that an album does not win me the very first
listening, sending the one that, after all, can be called a real
Stendhal syndrome. Every single note in this album is perfect, so
that even at a very first listen one realizes of being in front of a
small beautiful masterpiece. David (vocals & guitars), Miguel
Angel (bass) and Ale (drum) are the final line-up of this monstrous
factory of stoner metal blended with sun-drenched riffs of desert and
fuzz rock, perfectly fuelled by a huge rhythm section sustained by a
massively fuzzed out bass lines.
With
7 tracks for a total of 40 minutes-trip, Terra del Fuego (released by
Kozmik Artifactz), goes beyond stoner/fuzz metal, adding much more
atmosphere and psychedelia than previous releases, remind me in
certain passages bands like Samsara Blues Experiment, Colour Haze or
Weedpecker (my favourite 2015 release). The album starts with Into
the Darkness, a song with a shot where the use of fuzz remind to the
Truckfighters of Gravity-X while the second track, Sahara Trip, is a
groovy instrumental song that sounds like the perfect mix between
Kyuss and QOTSA. Through the listening of the album, you get the
feeling of being slowly driven from a pure stoner/desert sounds to
pure psychedelia. In the middle of Terra del Fuego, we can find songs
like Del Vendaval, but especially Astro II that could be easily
compete with classics stoner/grunge songs taken from Dirt of Alice in
Chains.
The
album ends with three tracks almost completely instrumental, Cosmos,
Venas de La Tierra and Psiconauta, an ensemble of songs that it would
be simplistic to define perfect. Through the clever use of
phaser/flanger, Demonauta with Cosmos and Psiconauta create the most
heavy and trippy songs of the album, whose names fully reflects the
cosmic spaces to which the mind is directed during the listening.
Between the two, we can find Venas de La Tierra, a song that is very
close to the sounds and atmospheres of My Sleeping Karma and Samsara
Blues Experiment. After 40 minutes of listening I put it all over
again, and listened again and again and again... .
What
remains after listening to Tierra del Fuego is a healthy awareness
that we are facing a little gem that anyone who loves stoner and
heavy psych sounds should have in their collection. Here, we are in
front of kick-ass mastery music, able to range across several
influences and displace the listener with one of the best album
released so far. Do not be "fooled" by their origin, from
Andes to Palm Desert, Demonauta will blow you away.
Words
by Bruno Bellisario
