Gaf Y La Estrella De La Muerte
Pyramids
Label: Keroxen
Genre: Post Rock / Avant Rock
Availability
- LP x2 €29.99 In Stock
The prolific project, helmed by local Canarian anchorman Mladen Kurajica, dwells deep into esoteric rock genres and this time, they waste no time in plunging the listener into their brave new type of cosmic rock with a deeply influenced krautrock voyage of 70’s jamming and psychonautic exploration.
Recorded over three days in the cultural space of El Tanque, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, at the height of the covid pandemic of 2020 and during one of the hottest summers to date, the band entered the space with no plan in mind deciding instead to approach the recording sessions without any preconceived ideas or pre-composed songs. Clean out of external influences and ready to experiment they loaded in all their available gear, including an array of modular synths, in order to create a new approach to song writing and flesh out some ideas for a future album in situ. The very process of that search, through pure improvisation and jamming, became the album we’re presenting here.
No overdubs or subsequent edits were done, except for cutting some songs so that they could fit on the album. Almost 5 hours of recordings in total, finally reaching a 7 track, 69-minute double LP. All the reverb heard on the record is the natural reverb of El Tanque, a 16 second tail natural reverb recorded with several room mics at different locations in the venue. Eventually this became the first fully instrumental album by the Estrella de la Muerte configuration, with a line up of 7 musicians (Gaf y Estrella de la Muerte are normally a sextet).
Enter then, this inspired selection of psychedelically damaged tunes, 70’s space rock, psychoacoustics and Kosmishe inspired jamming. This is healing music for your mind altering journeys. The titled Pyramids here serving not only as a gateway to the cosmic unknown but also as an exploratory symbol of the bands willingness to freely embrace their subconscious inner flows into a cosmic collective.
Ecstatic music for our times!
Produced by Mladen Kurajica in Tenerife 2022
Recorded at Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Santa Cruz, by Jorge Lozano.
Mixed by Jorge Lozano in Los Realejos
Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Felipe González Cabezas
Vinyl pressed in Holland
Gaf y la Estrella de la Muerte are
Mladen Kurajica, Felipe González Cabezas, César Chinarro, Eduardo Villalobos, Carolina Machado, Alejandro Padrón, J. Martín