Posts Tagged ‘La Otracina’

VR Vimeo: “Hail Fire” (La Otracina), by Video-Artist-in-Residence Samantha Cornwell

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

“Hail Fire” – La Otracina from Samantha Cornwell on Vimeo.

Cornwell on Cornwell (on La Otracina):

“When I was approached by La Otracina’s Adam Kriney about making a video, he very generously told me to pick any song I’d like to work with. Naturally, this made me feel like a kid in a candy store. I was attracted to the track “Hail Fire” because it had this really engrossing atmospheric quality that stood out to me. I also found that the song structure was kind of unusual, which I felt would present an interesting challenge in terms of editing.
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Introducing La Otracina’s “Beyond the Smoke,” from “Beyond the Smoke” Tour CD-R, Colour Sound Recordings

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009


“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.

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La 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.

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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.

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