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Monday, May 04, 2009

La Otracina hit the deepest space yet!

Yes,once again LA OTRACINA have blasted off into space.  But one of these voyages may be the DEEPEST space probe they have launched yet,...and that IS saying something!

WOVEN WANDERERS is Colour Sounds Recordings #039 and it's the critter I'm talkin' about. La Otracina has made what I've said was closest to an American Acid Mothers counterpart's recordings in the past,.....but now this is something else.  Laid back and spaced pieces reign here....most of a nice 6 to 7 minute length. This is deeply spaced ,and floating waves of sound...not too unlike the instrumental cuts from mid-period Hawkwind LPs like "Hall Of The Mountain Grill" and "Warrior On The Edge Of Time",and who could say that's a bad thing? There are changes on the horizon for La Otracina,...and this is a fine celebration of the more "universal" sounds they made when travelling through quieter realms of sound. Well,that is until near the end of this self-released album,when "Moonblazer" takes off on the "lunar" trajectory of "Blood Moon Riders" cut "Zunblazer"(the "zolar" trajectory,you see?)!  This has a more rhythmic take on their cosmic moves. Then the last cut brings us around to Space Metal,that is the most agressive cut here....and takes you back to where your space captains are in control of your flight once more ...firing the engines up once more after enjoying a nice smokey-float on the rest of this great album.  Very highly recommended!

GARDENS OF BLACKNESS is the CD-R version of a past ,sold-out cassette. This is Colour Sounds #037,....and although this numerically comes before Wooden Wanderers,...it more rightly seems to be La Otracina's next step in sound,towards a space-metal mix.  This short 20 minute set is pretty fantastic in it's own right.  "Land Above The Sky" has a middle-eastern organ sound with tumbling drums leading to the heavy vocals(over strummed acoustic guitar) that are coming to fore as the La Otracina sound mutates into a sort of Stoner Rock unit.  A cool ,dark ,and quasi-mystical sound is revealed here!  Things get all fuzzy and extreme in the song's center,then float into a deep darkness with sinister tones taking over at the tunes end. A nice varied mix!  Emerald Energy is a tranced-out meditation that could have been on the "Wanderers..." Cd just mentioned,four and a half minutes of fine hazy floating! Finally "Mass Monolithic Mind" is one of those "Maggot Brain"-like cuts that come along all too infrequently in a lifetime!  It's a beauty of echoed,soulful guitar tones ,...and it's played ,like Mr. Clinton told Eddie Hazel,..."Like you just heard that your mother died..." ,in other words beautiful and sad,....until the drums burst in for a moment near song's end for a surprise synth conclusion.   A great little taster of the heavy-ness to come...with some other angles explored too!

So,like I've said before....grab these up now.  Either to celebrate the La Otracina you now know,....or to get that taste of "heavy changes" comin' down your way in care of this band's ever evolving sound.  Both ways you can NOT lose. Now just hang on for the evolution revolution ........