By José Gandue @Gandour
Garage band may sound its best, but it has its share of critics and lifelong haters. Some of our closest friends and family members unleash their worst side when, suddenly, without warning, some kind of quality recording comes on the stereo. lo-fi, with eternal strings that form layer upon layer in the air, penetrating the ears of friends and strangers alike without permission, as if it were a small but incisive drill. They detest it when, in addition, the voices accompanying these kinds of performances are enveloped in extensive reverberations, making it somewhat difficult to understand the lyrics. And if you talk to them about the subtlety and timidity present in these musical expressions, they develop a strange rash that borders on their reaction to things that offend them in their social and daily lives. I, on the contrary, I must confess that I relive my happy adolescence when I first hear any of these bands that identify with the label «"shoegaze", with guitars densely fed back, noisy yet melodic, intoxicated by effects pedals flanger, reverb o chorus, creating psychedelic and spacey atmospheres in which one can be immersed, gazing into the distance, for hours. That's why I celebrate the arrival of Black Mixtape, the second album by the Chilean trio Beast Boy, under the label SurPop.
Black Mixtape It is a short compilation of five songs, barely exceeding nineteen minutes in length, Therefore, it's easy to fall into the trap of immediately repeating your audition., Eager to understand the entire resonant process we just went through, especially if the listener is curious about how each sound presented there was created. Likewise, don't imagine, before doing play For the first time, they are confronted with a set of complex and incomprehensible pieces. Amidst the tangle of small disturbances and buzzing sounds that are part of this entire musical structure, The first thing you notice is the preciousness of her primal soul. This is a work made with affection, honesty and tenderness, making stridency its most honest weapon to present itself to the audience.
Chicho Bestia is a growing band that works with a small independent label at the end of the world. Therefore, it may take time to reach the biggest stages on the planet. It doesn't matter. Publications such as Black Mixtape They deserve to be listened to attentively anywhere on the planet by those who wander about, without the need for grand headlines in major magazines or the most renowned experts. This is music made to reclaim our appreciation for the original noise, the kind that encouraged us to talk about music with our companions, without resorting to bright lights or colorful marquees., that one that perhaps played once in some garage in our neighborhood one Saturday afternoon and that we have missed ever since.
