SMOKING THE CENTURY AWAY

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"Jorge Beltran and Victor Basurto, its them again. Another nice issue in the sign of the alchemic constellation that scintillates in the heaven of the end of the century, to confirm us about everything that is already reality in motion (cfr.nº 201) After Humus ('4º'), Semefo ('Laervarium') and Euphoric Darkness ('Colours You Can Hear' in the company of Dave 'Ear Candy' Tor), the fourth star of '98 blinks exceptionally because of the hyperactivity of the two mexican musicians: an acoustic splendor as the base, renders electric and electronic currents, even in the context of sounds always caractherized for being completely instrumental. Ideas born at their own studio Sky Corner in Mexico City, between one project and the next, perhaps waiting for a busy drummer, and inspired by a collection of common experiences (books, cinema, music) to which a song from May Blitz ('Smoking the Day Away') acts like a pivot for the title. 'Smoking the Century Away' its the most eclectic work of Jorge and Victor: the vaporous explosion of the instantaneous combustion, in one suite, of their arsenal of instruments, gathered throughout the years of research and exploration that condenses 17 products of reaction. The instinctive fantasy of the sonic parade is ratrher grasping, it inmediately takes you into the variations of a deep and chopped bass, of a telescopic keyboard, of a crystalline acoustic phrasing, on the positive vertigo of a possible meeting between Soft Machine and Black Sun Ensemble, on the deep breath of an open vision that mixes itself into the numerous itiniraries of the sound. Percussions and effects trace a whispering route, surfing along the hipothetic cosmoline that links Labradford with Passage on the edges of a black hole from which out comes a bucket, full of a dense spacetemporal matter expelled by Brainticket,. Good matter for 'fumarsi via il secolo', maybe between the rattling of shells or in the reverberations of a mouth harp that passes lightly through the infinite glazes generated with each breath. With soft steps, Victor and Jorge, Like great musicians always a little bit out of their time but tenaciously inside the creative impetus of their ever vast musical trayectories." - Giampiero Fleba, Rockerilla