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Topic: Poseidotica Posted: July 13 2011 at 13:13 |
An all-instrumental quartet formed in early 2001, POSEIDOTICA is a conceptual heavy prog band from Buenos Aires, Argentina consisting of FREDERICO BRAMANTI (drums), SANTIAGO RUA (guitar and effects), MARTIN RODRIGUEZ (bass) and HEMAN MICELI (guitar/effects). As their bio states, "Starting with the goal of creating an environmental and heavy rock, each integral ingredient contributes its staff in order to achieve a range of climates and dark and dense atmospheres that allow a subtle mental journey, contrasting moments of total relaxation with excerpts of inevitable fury". Seems good to me !! I got in touch with the band and Martin answered my questions. #####################################################################################
Your
biography has been covered in your ProgArchives profile so let's
bypass this and go straight to the albums.
Please
give me your (long or brief) thoughts and lowdowns on.......
Intramundo
from 2005 Intramundo was our first
professional album, released in June 2005 by Aquatalan Records. We
had made other low fi recordings like “Horizontalidad” and “Demo
2003”. Intramundo contains the music of the band’s first
years, and it includes some classics like “Hidrofobia” and
“Mantra”, songs that always get to our set list.
Intramundo includes the
participation of Walter Broide, drummer of Los Natas, who plays on
all the tracks. The concept of the album is linked with water. The
music is expansive and dark, moving from furious moments to slower
and calmer passages.
It has songs like “Superastor”,
which includes some Tango vibes and a little tribute to Astor
Piazzolla, and “Las 4 Estaciones”, which begins with a Jazz-like
mood and becomes one of the heaviest moments of the album. The
release gave us a lot of satisfaction. We had played in different
festivals, e.g. opening for Iggy and The Stooges, Megadeth and
Marilyn Manson. Intramundo confirmed we were a promising new
band on the scene and it opened many doors to us.
La
Distancia from 2008 In April 2008 we released our second
album La Distancia, through Aquatalan Records. It was recorded
at the legendary Estudio del Cielito, mastered at Puro Mastering and
artistically produced by Juan Stewart (a well known producer on the
Argentinean independent scene).
With these eight songs, we developed
another concept album, this time focusing on human relationships and
life on Earth, aiming to link the meaning of La Distancia with
different perspectives, ideas, landscapes and images.
Musically, I think the album shows the
evolution of Poseidótica. It has the dynamic style that
characterizes the band, combining mathematical and progressive music,
intensity with quiet moments of great warmth. It includes tunes like
“La Distancia”, “Sueño Narcótico”, “Campo Magnético”
and “Las Magnitudes”, which is the band’s longest song, divided
into two parts, which drive you to different emotional moments until
the climax at the end. This album was recorded with Federico
Bramanti, a young drummer who came from the jazz scene. He left the
band a few months after the release of La Distancia.
How
is the writing and the creative process in your band?
At
the beginning, the music was created by leitmotivs that we took to
rehearsals, and from there we worked together and expanded our ideas.
For some time now, we’ve been started recording ‘all the jams all
the time’. This way we add material which we then select and
structure making the song, leaving the best parts and including a lot
of arrangements to it. The titles and the concept are very important
during the creative process for each new album.
Just
to give those of us who are unknown with your band a bit of a
reference point or two: How would you describe your music and which
bands would you compare your music with?
We
play instrumental rock with influences of progressive rock,
psychedelic music, heavy metal, stoner rock, but we also have jazz
and tango in our DNA. I don´t know which bands we could compare our
music with, but I can only tell you what bands I feel had an
influence on us: Black Sabbath, Soft Machine, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind,
The Stooges, Miles Davis, Can, Motörhead, among others. At the same
time we love the underground local scene, so we are very familiar
with what happens here around us. I
have been told your band is one of the most popular and active
alternative/progressive rock bands in Argentina today. How is the
situation for your band in Argentine and are you expanding your
horizons to the rest of South America and the world, both promotion
and gigs wise?
Here
in Argentina we are trying to focus on our shows more than ever. It’s
got very difficult to play live because a lot of places were closed
by the city government, but we are trying to generate new spaces to
rock on. Day by day the band is growing and there are a lot of people
that come to see Poseidótica now. We are expecting the release of
our new album Crónicas del Futuro to expand the band’s
horizon. We are planning, first, to tour around our big country, and
then play in Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. There’s a possibility that
we’ll go on tour around Europe. We have some offers, so we want to
book some gigs there for 2012. We are working on that.
How
is the availability of your records and what is your experience with
the music industry?
We
move around like a true independent band, applying the DIY ideology.
Aquatalan Records is our own record label, twice as much effort for
us, but a great reward every day. In Argentina we have a small
distribution that is growing, and we also sell a lot of CDs and
merchandising at the gigs. In the rest of the world, we have
distribution in USA by All That´s Heavy online store, and in Europe
some other stores like Kozmik Artifactz and Viajero Inmóvil. The
music industry as we know is about to disappear, so today sign with a
major company is no guarantee. Our first album has sold out, and the
second is about to sell out too; it took a long time, but it’s
definitely worth it. We love to stay independent, which is part of
the plan.
What
are your plans for the rest of this year and next year?
In
July 2011, we are going to release our third album called Crónicas
del Futuro. It was recorded and mixed by Patricio Claypole
between May and September 2010 at Estudio El Attic, and mastered by
Justin Weis at Trakworx Studio in San Francisco, USA. The drummer
that recorded this album was Hernán “Nachi” Bertrand, who lives
in Europe today. The album is short and direct; there are 9 songs
which summarize the ten year band’s career, and it’s based on the
retro futurism topic. The album will be out in a deluxe digipack
edition, so we are very happy with the results. We are planning the
presentation of the album at a great venue with a superb show, and
then go out to play it with a mix of songs from previous albums.
After this release, we are going to reissue the first album
Intramundo, remastered and with a new art design. At the same
time, today we are playing with Walter Broide again, maybe one of the
best local drummers, so we are recording jams with him, and beginning
to create and prepare a new album, which I suppose will be a
beautiful experience. We are motivated and playing good stuff.
Anything
you want to add to this interview?
Yes,
I invite to everyone to listen to our first two albums on bandcamp
http://poseidotica.bandcamp.com
and to listen to two new songs, “La Resistencia” and “Dimensión
Vulcano”, on these links: http://soundcloud.com/poseidotica
and http://www.aquatalanrecords.com.ar
You
can visit our official page http://www.poseidotica.com.ar
. There is updated information about the band and the links to all
the social networks we are in. Thanks for everything and keep on
rockin´! Thank you to Martin for this interview
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tupan
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Posted: July 24 2011 at 16:20 |
Good band. I recommend the downloads of La Resistencia and Dimension Volcano.
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memowakeman
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Posted: July 29 2011 at 10:15 |
Great to see this interview, they are a cool band!
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AstralliS
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Posted: July 29 2011 at 12:06 |
What reminds me that they never responded the interview questions I sent 3-4 months ago.
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