Psicomagia is a new group featuring
Brian Ellis (not on guitar or synths by on saxophone) with a group of
like-minded mates from San Diego. I think some of these folks also play in the
improvsed Brian Ellis group. The spoken words are all in Spanish as are all the
song titles. The music is mostly instrumental very intense. Fans of the Mars
Volta will probably dig this even though there is no guitar! El Memorioso start
things off with a really cool intro before the amazing bass playing and intense
drumming kicks in and then saxophone takes the lead. The song has a very cool
vibe and the duelling battle with the keyboards (sometimes sounds like a flute)
and sax is very cool. El Congreso Pt1 is next and split over the end of side A
and beginning of side B and this features the spoken word poetry in Spanish of
Bernardo Nuñez. It starts slowly but then gets super intense as you go on the
same trip as the first track with the synths really taking the lead with some
repeated patterns return with the sax lines. Phew.. Flip the record over and
the poetry returns but the intensity of the keyboard is really cool as it sound
nearly like a guitar at times and really is balanced to the right while the
poetry is to the left. Brian is taking a break for a bit but rest are not! I
have to say this is some of the absolutely most intense effected organ and
synth playing I have ever heard, this Tyler Daughn is fucking unreal. He gives
the music a total head fuck! The last track Simplón is a bit more composed and
less of a full on freakout but no less intense. This one hell of a record to
sit through and you need to hear some pretty mellow stuff afterwards but I am
fully ready for the next trip! Awesome.
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