La Otracina Discography of CDs

La Otracina music CDs Brooklyn-based psychedelic hard rock trio La Otracina are obviously heavily influenced by vintage psychedelic rock, Krautrock/motorik, etc., but this album is very much in the stoner metal realm. Drummer/vocalist Adam Kriney (who also runs the band's label, Holy Mountain) howls and carries on in a vein somewhere between the Melvins' Buzz Osborne and Cathedral's Lee Dorrian, and the guitar and bass work of Philippe Ortanez and Evan Sobel, respectively, very much recalls Cathedral's '70s-besotted stomping. Blasts of vintage synth add to the retro feel, but these guys are much more than mere sonic archivists. Despite giving their songs titles like "Crystal Wizards of the Cosmic Weird" and "Mass Meteoric Mind," they've got a present-day, down-to-earth, back-alley vibe going that's strongly reminiscent of Staten Island's late-'60s/early-'70s proto-metal titans, Sir Lord Baltimore (who also had a singing drummer), while remaining something you could imagine going out to a club and hearing. Their songs have dynamic shifts (from fast to slow, from crushing riffage to gentle, folkish acoustic guitar melodies) that keep the album ...

La Otracina discography One of the many fine projects Adam Kriney is heavily involved with, La Otracina with their debut on Holy Mountain show very well that Kriney and his associates know how to make the kind of queasily dramatic psych/drone overload that is manna from heaven to any number of shaggy-haired listeners (and a few clean-cut ones as well). Not far removed from what early Ash Ra Tempel did in terms of overlapping and deep-echoed feedback exploration and noise, La Otracina add just enough direct anthemic power -- a bit of American classic rock, if one likes -- to compositions ...

La Otracina songs Track Listing of songs: Inner Mind Journey; Ballad Of The Hot Ghost Mama PT.1; Zunblazer; Ballad Of The Hot Ghost Mama PT.2; Drifted Memory;

La Otracina CD discography Brooklyn's acid-fried La Otracina never met a mind-bending drone they didn't like. The impenetrable psychedelic fog of BLOOD MOON RIDERS is a valiant attempt by the band to make concrete sounds out of phenomena as indefinable as the birth of a star or a thought mutating into a dream. But this isn't any ...