One Of These Days

"The creative spirit that shook the rock and roll in the hinge that broke the 60 to the 70 is the engine that drives the group coruñés One of these Days & Thee Random Heavy Tone Colour Lab, presented in Madrid on Thursday, and that on Tuesday 25 surprise you with their melodies and space developments in the room Mardi Gras, with the British Mugstar. 
Visible head of this project is Diego Veiga, who played for Jet Lag and Steelwood, and founded the now successful Lüger " When I left the band and returned to the city what I wanted to do was play and riding issues that had long, because stylistically Lüger going through other channels. And what better way to meet with a group of old friends to do it. "
The friends referred Veiga trajectories are well known musicians in the rock scene Coruña: Joki bassist, drummer Jose Martinez and keyboardist Fernando Bonhan Vilaboy, psychedelia that found in the attachment point on which the proposal would work.
"Obviously, our main references come from German and English rock rock. One of these Days is the Pink Floyd song, and we all share a passion for the first 70-confirms-vocalist, that creative freedom at the time of the film Live at Pompeii, with the experimentation that mix. After that what you focus into other courses. I see psychedelics as a mental state of absolute creative freedom. "
Those paths that have led to experiments as instrumentalists amplify a hurdy gurdy in an excerpt from his upcoming album, in post-production and that, as expected Veiga, will be published vinyl. And not as a succession of songs, but as a suite with several movement and a unifying theme: a bitterness that the group leader reminds the spirit of Pink Floyd's Animals torn.
"the album's songs, as did also Floyd, pop melodies consist explains the musician, who recognizes the Beatles as his favorite band, but deconstructed. They have their chorus, but we took a more experimental side, with ten-minute issues that have their pop melody and instrumental developments. We seek to create tension. "
But they are the creators of The Dark Side of the Moon the only reference One of these Days, in the parts of their future disk can be traced from the fury interstellar environments Hawkwind to dream of King Crimson Islands Album: "King Crimson we love them all. We will introduce disk winds, and me each time I like jazz, and this band was a pioneer in bringing the world to the rock. "
But despite their teachers and their adherence to the old school, rejects Veiga retro label for his band: "The album is designed to sound at 70. There are many groups today who use the same references, and Black Mountain, which are not retro. We are an amalgam of influences that have come together."

The band toured to promote the album, playing one gig with British (from Liverpool) Psychedelic/Kraut Rock band Mugstar: http://mugstar.bandcamp.com/

http://www.mugstar.com/

 

Here is an article in English from bestacorunabars.com (Coruña is the town where One of These Days & thee Heavy Random Tone Colour Lab were based): http://www.bestacorunabars.com/2011/11/04/going-underground/

 

Here's the extract from the article that relates to this tour:

 

"It was due to Diego (Veiga) from Bar Bristol that I went to Sala Mardi Gras. He'd organised a gig with his new band supporting a group from Liverpool called Mugstar. Both bands play 'Prog Rock'. Diego's group 'One Of These Days' write their own stuff, heavily influenced by King Crimson and Pink Floyd. I'd almost forgotten about King Crimson too. It was a cool experience seeing creative young Galician musicians passionately reviving 60s/70s sounds in a true, authentic style. I recalled several concerts from my days at London University. It was a bit like taking a trip almost 40 years back in the Tardis. The venue was packed with young Coruñese ProgRockers. I felt semi-naked without long hair and sideburns. Mugstar's music is very reminiscent of Hawkwind, who've toured Europe blasting out Pyschedelic Rock for 40+ years now."

The first concert outside of Galicia was here: http://www.musikaze.com/es/musica/promotoras/noticia.php?cod=294&ntc=11331

 

Diego Veiga was the driving force behind One of These Days, and was formerly a member of  another fine Spanish Psyche/Kraut Rock band called Lüger: http://www.myspace.com/dieluger, http://luger.bandcamp.com/album/l-ger (free download), http://www.discogs.com/Lüger-Lüger/release/2187322

 

He is now playing, along with One of These Days bass player Joki (Joaquim Conejos), with another Spanish band, also from A Coruna, called WolRuS: http://wolrus.bandcamp.com/album/chasin-the-light, this album being released very recently on 13th December last year, & Diego is their most recent member (http://desconcierto.com/musica/Destacados/entrevista-wolrus)  - something which makes me think that all activity relating to One of These Days has now ceased.

 

The other two One of These Days members, José M. Martinez “Bonham” and Fernando G Vilaboy, previously played with Samesugas, whose debut album '¡Alá Vai!' was also recorded and mastered at Bonham Studios (A Coruña), where 'A Peaceful Nacht In Hell' was produced: http://www.discogs.com/Samesugas-Al%C3%A1-Vai/release/2874741

 

Fernando also played with a band called 'The Elephant Band', and José with two other bands - Deluxe and The Majestics, none of which have any connection with prog (you can find them on RYM if you want to check them out).

 

One of These Days & thee Heavy Random Tone Colour Lab has a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ONE-OF-THESE-DAYS-Thee-Heavy-Random-Tone-Colour-Lab/185982474786438, & they posted this statement there on 3rd July last year: "...and still label search... hope to release soon our bandcamp so you go listening to disk in digital format... ", but there has not been much posted since.

There are a few short videos from the making of the album, and the English version of their bandcamp biography is on there too, and it reads thus:

 

ONE OF THESE DAYS: "The word is switched on".
 
"For the site of confrontation with great things, it is silence that is appropriate". Frederich Nietzsche.

With the same clairvoyance with which a child is concious that very soon he will witness a war, absolute silence anounces to us a great roar. Communion is served, "the soma" that cures all our troubles is located in bordem and there are no more rebel words after a long preparatory, resonant and defiant silence. When the four men of the apocalypse (Joki, Bonham, Fernando Vilaboy and Diego Viega) break the seals that anounce good news "The world is finished" it will anounce the revelation to which one of these days is not a recomended group for a happy world or for those who have decided to live in a well being society.
 
The trumpets warn of an unwritten, unknown future. Everything is evident, tangible and in the end, the music can be seen. The scene is set and the drugs have distilled directly into your blood. The music is not just for amusement, it's something more serious, like a weapon of kindness.

In words of their American producer Paul Ronnie "I understand music to be a liturgical act, a message from the beyond, wrapped up in a semiconsious meditation but in a spaced and physical concept, the music is like a large mass of flesh that sticks between your teeth and which we play with to rub against our tongue". Ronnie who in the 70s produced various German and Italian prog-rock bands has returned after ten years of spiritual retreat in the Mojave Desert. He has made a comeback to do what he does best, create chaos or in this case to help cause chaos.

"There is something very sinister in all this, a dark light that speaks to us that tells us the impolute does not exist. If the gods were to raise their heads ONE OF THESE DAYS would burn happily in the most enjoyable hell"

 

 

roge fdez, an artist from 73.

 

 

We live in hope...but we cannot add this fine band to PA if there is no means of obtaining their music in a format that can be taken away and stored somewhere - either on CD, or as decent quality digital files.