“Beyond the Smoke,” one of our favorite numbers from La Otracina’s live set, is simply too metal to be metal, and too prog to be prog. Our minds say caricature. Our bodies say apotheosis.
Posts Tagged ‘Adam Kriney’
Introducing La Otracina’s “Beyond the Smoke,” from “Beyond the Smoke” Tour CD-R, Colour Sound Recordings
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009La Otracina, Woven Wanderers, Colour Sounds, 2009
Monday, April 13th, 2009
La Otracina is drug music—more specifically, marijuana music. Not surprisingly, their MySpace page declares that their sound is of “cocaine riffs, mushroom freakouts, hashish metal, and fuzz-drunk jazz-rock.” Personally, only a couple of those drugs come to my mind while listening to their CD, Woven Wanderers, released on drummer and vocalist Adam Kriney’s Colour Sounds imprint. And I really think that listening to this CD is best complemented by smoking a good amount of Mary Jane.
Vorg Vessel, The Queen of Fish Mountain (5”) + Illuminated by Stripes (3”), Cut Hands
Monday, February 16th, 2009
The prolific Adam Kriney is perhaps best known as a drummer, hammering it out freestyle for a handful of Brooklyn-based psychedelic and improv outfits on the Colour Sounds Recordings label (Dragonfrynd, Owl Xounds, La Otracina), which he himself runs. With Vorg Vessel (Cut Hands), his first solo outing, this Boston expat sets down his sticks and sinks his claws into a classic Lowrey organ and a keyboard, presumably cheap and battery-powered. A disclaimer in the liner booklet informs us that “The Queen of Fish Mountain” (5”) and “Illuminated by Stripes” (3”) are 100% synthesizer and sequencer free. Whether Kriney is trying to paint himself as a purist or making some kind of sweeping statement about the current state of electronic music is irrelevant: rarely has the sound of two droning instruments grinding against one another been so varied and beautiful.
