By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
The Ganjas – This Is The Time 2002-2007
The classic independent label Algo Records The band has decided to release a compilation on Bandcamp featuring the best of the early career of the Chilean band The Ganjas, who this year celebrate 25 years of making waves on stages and in recording studios. Here we have an immaculate tracklist from the early days of this inspiring group., with an exquisitely dirty sound and many anthems of laudable subversive turbulence, which makes us think (and it has always been this way, ever since we've known them) that they did enough to deserve being known throughout the world. Their achievement (if you don't know them), especially in those early days, was the splendid combination of stoner rock, shoegaze, grunge and dub, where the feedback He was king, and where reckless silence was the enemy. This album includes magical moments like The rain doesn't want to fall., Sonic Redemption, Dance Hall y Peluson, ...among others. Long live The Ganjas!
Dirty car + The Great Famine – Hungry and Dirty
The eyes and ears of music lovers in Colombia have always been waiting for surprises from Cali, a city located in the west of the country, for decades. This city, due to historical, climatic, racial, and who knows how many other reasons, It is supposed that from time to time a small sonic revolution erupts that attempts to break with the schemes of the music industry. Perhaps due to nostalgia or to precedents reflected in its popular literature, Cali, in the imagination of those who are optimistic about the future of art, has much to say and much to change. That's why we're paying close attention to what the new hip hop scene there might have to say. The seal Discos Furia, has released an EP, uniting two local projects that, together, released a five-song album, with agile lyrics, intelligent instrumental mix, combining fine elements of jazz, some rock and intense beats that never let up. Direct, raw rap with sharp lyrics. Is this the future of Colombian hip hop? I hope so, because this area needs more rebellious and less conventional music.
O-Bri – The shortest distance
Let's begin with a somewhat vague definition of the sound of this album: This is experimental pop, ready to break many clichés. Does that tell you anything? Perhaps not, but it at least hints at what the Argentinian artist Osvaldo Brizuela (O-Bri) does. Here we have four intimately crafted songs (all instruments and voices included in the recording belong to Brizuela)., where the author took the time and the luxury to mark small details throughout the record, to achieve something extremely personal, that would perfectly match his peculiar tone of voice, making the audience (we believe) notice that they haven't heard anything like it recently, and appreciate it (or hate it; some people detest anything very different in their lives), and feel curious about the unexpected moments that listening to this material provides. We liked it a lot, for the atmosphere it creates, for the good use of reverberations, and, of course, for the splendid construction of the ballads.
Sucky Panthers – Kill him!
We conclude this review with a recording of barely one minute and two seconds in length, Arriving from Monterrey, Mexico. The truth is, to complete the spectrum, we needed some punk and we found it in this group that released this single a few weeks ago., Very well recorded, it goes straight to the fans' emotions And its outcome bodes well for what these Monterrey natives can achieve in the coming year. So, short and sweet, without unnecessary embellishment or fanfare.
