CABEZAS DE CERA

Long time has passed since my last Cabezas de Cera review, actually i think i haven´t reviewed any mexican album this new 2007, anyway, if you don´t know , this band is probably my favorite mexican band, sadly they don´t have the support they deserve, they aren´t well known even in their own country, but they have some few loyal followers like me who support them and one way to support them is reviewing their albums in sites like this.

Cabezas de Cera has had some changes in their line up and music, this album that im reviewing was their first effort, which actually was released only as a cassette and it´s very hard to find nowadays. This time (1997) their music was different, 3 members (Sotelo brothers and Cristobal Pliego) began to create music inspired in rock and instrumental music, in 1995 they had created a song called "Las Glorias de Baco" as their first main effort, but it wasn´t included in this cassette, the instruments were the simple ones, bass, guitars and drums, in that time they hadn´t developed their unique, original and creative style that we know.

A difference to THE Cabezas de Cera (i mean 2000 until now), wind instruments wasn´t used in this album, and Ramses Luna was not a member of the band yet.

That was a brief history of the band, but i wont write a bio, i just wanted t let you know a bit more of this excellent band. Now let´s talk about this album, as you can noticed and as i said above this was released as a cassette, so itis divided in 2 sides, side 1 has 5 songs and side 2 only 4 songs, 9 in total and over 30 minutes of music.

What we can find here is instrumental music(as usual) but in a Crimson inspired style in their Discipline era, but here they hadn´t used even stick and other string instruments that later were used in their albums, anyway i think the Crimson a like sound is pretty obvious.

The songs are short and sometimes quite simple, but nonetheless enjoyable, there are 3 songs out of this cassette which were also placed in their only compilation album "Fractal Sonico", so it would be a nice way to listen to this songs because getting the cassette is difficult, "Novilunio", "Diurex" and "Mero Tramite" are that songs, probaly the band´s favorites i dont know, but actually them all have the same style.

This was a nice/average beginning, nothing outstanding or innovative, but every band has suffered changes, fortunately, they changed for better! Since it is my favorite Mexican band and i want to support them, i will give to this cassette 3 stars, if you can´t find any son of here or think this music is not good, please try their selftitled album, and you will ve impressed!