La Otracina - Voyage To Heldonia by Who Can You Trust?

La Otracina - Voyage To Heldonia by Who Can You Trust?

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La Otracina – Psyched out Jazz Metal Heads

La Otracina – Psyched out Jazz Metal Heads

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Adam Kriney joined Nebula

"For those of you who didn’t hear, Adam Kriney has joined veteran stoner gurus NEBULA, as of late August 2009. Joining them mid-way through their summer tour, as their previous drummer quit on the road, Adam joined them the next day, and the rest is a blurry haze."

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La Otracina | Nebula | Adam Kriney

La Otracina – Blood Moon Riders

Have you ever had the feeling that music just overwhelms you so much it’s like being hit by the Stendahl syndrome? Well, I’m once again overwhelmed by La Otracina. Not just because the music is astoundingly brilliant, but also because they once again change their musical direction. It’s still founded in über well played progressive spacerock, but this record is more floating and more drowned in a wall of sonic overdrive.

The backbone is the completely fit rhythmgroup of Adam Kriney and Evan Sobel. On top you have magnificent guitar work by Ninni Morgia and layers of epic electronics to melt it all together. I miss words to describe the music, but the band itself describes it like: “a swirling myth of hard-psych witchery, progressive rock insanity, fuzzed-out jazz-rock wizardry, and epic space-metal fantasy!” Ohhh yeah, that comes pretty close …

Most captivating is the 15 min monstrous work of “Inner Mind Journey” that for sure takes your senses to a long spacey inner journey. This is progressive acid space rock making Sun Ra look like a midget – well, maybe not, but get the idea of a band able to freak completely and more competent than most modern avant garde artists. Another brain blast is “Zunblazer” led by monstrous pumping bass and drums with swirling guitar on top for 3:30 min before turning into a dreamingly floating and melodic piece and in the end drifting away into almost dark psych.

La Otracina is a well build smooth music machine; it’s the big block motor of modern rocking free jazz. It’s a trip – and you’re gonna like it!

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TONA left a comment - what about you?

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Some dude from TONA left a comment about Heavy Metal 1981. Not many do so?! It's quite strange to know that somebody actually do read this blog. And to be honest, therefore this blog mainly serve as a pinboard for me to keep track of different stuff and links i dig up around the net. You are also welcome to contact me. Earthling Society did so and also La Otracina - two brilliant bands. I love new stuff - you know ;-)

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But please leave some comments and get mentioned like TONA ...

Crystal Stilts and Repo Man Records

Today I passed Repo Man Records as usual when I biked from work. To my surprise the shop was still open and Troels was there. So I stepped in and had a chat. It's usually closed when I go home, so it was an nice surprise. Another nice surprise was the record spinning. At first I thought it was some Black Angels I hadn't heard before, on the other hand it was a little too mellow. But I liked it and found the record and said "I'll buy this!". Usually I ask about the stuff and has to think twice before I buy something I don't know. I asked Troels about the band afterwards but he didn't know much about the band, he also just liked the music. They are from Brooklyn I know - just like La Otracina ... hmmm, funny coincidence.

Crystal Stilts @ MySpace | Repo Man Records

La Otracina – The Risk of Gravitation

Jesucks! I mean, gee… man – La Otracina is a mind bending hard to cope with complex familiarity. Adam Kriney of the band contacted me through my blog and asked if I wanted to review this new mini-album. And hell yes I wanted to after listening to the songs on their MySpace site. Adam presents them as a stoner-prog/psych band. I would go further and call them a heavy prog-space-freejazz band - or whatever. This record is for sure going to keep your mind occupied for the whole half hour! The music interchanges from amphetamine driven space-jazz to downtempo almost prog-doom into almost polished psych-prog. The record seems to be one long suite with all songs floating in and out of each other. Every new song is a new surprise since they change their style from song to song – well, actually even within many of the songs. What a cool band and what cool music. This is for fans of Zappa as well as Hawkwind as well as Orthodox. http://www.myspace.com/laotracina Colour Sound Recordings