Charlie Hodgson
An album from the underworld. If you like a beefy bass sound this won't disappoint! I chose trapped down as my favourite for that chilled little jam in the middle.
Favorite track: B1 Trapped Down.
Martin Ludi / guitar, vocals
Gabriel Ravera / bass guitar, vocals
Ivan Sacharczuk / drums
Recorded in Parana, Entre Rios
Mixed by Aitor Aramberry
Reel to reel by John Follador & Gustavo
Mastered by John Follador
credits
released January 5, 2022
Year 2019, after an endless tour, the band goes into a break time and each one returns to his life. After this short break, the band begins to write "Sahara III". Several disputes began between the members due to problems with drugs and alcohol. Lucio remembers: "Everything was chaos, we did not know what to do with so much drugs, and that was affecting us all."
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"I remember as if it had just happened, Ismael called to my room at the Campo de 'Fiori hotel, and I think nothing ever made me feel so bad than that.
I travelled the next day to Argentina, in vain...there was no funeral.
According to what they said, they were going from Venado Tuerto to Santa Fe around 3:00 am, according to the experts, near Villa Mugueta they collided with a cow at 180kmph and they literally exploded, poor bastards [Laughs]
It took months until I started playing again, I was depressed, it was a long time before I started doing songs again and if it weren't for my friends I would have already left this. Gabriel and Ivan told me to put the band together, one Friday night at a party, I said no. The next day, after sleeping, I called them and said yes, for the next week we were rehearsing. [Laughs]
When we were ready to record, we couldn't. Our sound engineer was in prison, there were only 2 months left until he was released from jail ... so we waited for him, very bad decision. Everything on wheels, until the pandemic arrived. Our idea was to come here to record, as we couldn't travel anywhere, we couldn't even leave our houses to rehearse. They didn't let us go out in the afternoon, or at night, or to parks, anywhere. We managed to be able to rehearse despite everything, and we even record an album during the pandemic. We rented a chapel from our city Parana, we put all our equipment there and well, we ended up recording ourselves. When Aitor got out of jail, the first thing we did was to record, and the funny thing is that when we finished doing everything Aitor was arrested again for another crime that I prefer not to talk now.
The pandemic there(Argentina) was not pleasant at all, it was hard, very hard [...]
Exact from the interview with Martin for Rumoremag, Italy. May 2021
After a few very hard months, the band had already prepared what we now present as "III", a fresh, heavy and different album. Forged in the depths of Entre Rios, during the confinement.
We want to thank all our friends, girlfriends and all the people who listen to this album.
And a very special thanks to Per from Regain Records for putting all his enthusiasm into this.
The recipe is equal parts heavy and psychedelic sounds! Distorted guitars lay the foundation. Heavily distorted Hendrixian guitar solo’s screaming over backdrops of raw scuzzy acidic proto-doom ! Stephan
This album is an absolute banger. The riffs are especially groovy this time, the vocals are amazing, and the overall thing is supercatchy. If I'd have to list one downside, it's that the mix is so bass-heavy that the sound only truely comes into it's right when listened on good headphones or extremely good speakers. On anything less it can sound like the bass drowns the rest of the music out. 9/10 Buzzario
Utterly hypnotic, heavy, and ethereal beyond what I can aptly describe here. It'll take you careening down a kaleidoscopic wormhole of audial bliss. cynothoglys
The perfect blend of naive enthusiasm and unfiltered rock 'n' roll danger, leading to an explosive, raw sound. Volcanic, pure, and crushing. Bandcamp New & Notable May 30, 2017