Ararat is a Los Natas side
project and something totally different from Los Natas. It is both dark and
light in nature, with minimal vocals and very bass driven, as the guitar takes
a backseat. The CD features 7 tracks over 56mins. El Carro starts the record off with some
south American whistles, a repetitive guitar riff and then some acoustic guitar
comes in and some cool synths sounds float across the landscape in this
instrumental opener. Caballos is next and lasts for 16mins. This is mostly
bass, drums and some ambient spacey keyboards for quite a long time as it
slowly takes form. He starts to sing slowly as it builds in intensity. A long
journey but not that captivating. Lobos de Cuerra has a much heavier bass riff
and is also very repetitive. El Inmigrante is a very nice track with acoustic
guitar. Atenas is another shorter track but also really interesting with mainly
piano and some spoken word samples. La Ira de Dragon (Uno) is another 15min long
journey. It features some female vocals and is by far the most psychedelic and
interesting track with multiple cool layers of stuff in this mainly bass and
drum track. Tres de Mayo ends the 56min trip with another piano driven track. I
am not so sure if I like this that much. IT is very stoned in someway and just
sort of prods on and on and is not quite dynamic enough for me at times. Still
pretty interesting record and I don’t have one quite like it.
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