Máscaras, comprised of three Portland music scene veterans (members of Sun Angle, Deer or the Doe, O Bruxo, Cat Hoch, Paper/Upper/Cuts, and literally dozens of others), is what happens when an off-the-cuff jam session between friends really, really works. Even in its recorded form, “it’s a jam with themes that live and breathe,” the band says, “leaving room for the unexpected.” The trio, comprised of Papi Fimbres (drums), Theo Craig (bass), and Carlos Segovia (guitar), plays heavy, propellant psychedelic music with surf-rock twang and mathy sensibilities. They call it “maximalist indigenous psych,” and while it’s not exactly the kind of music that one would normally identify with Portland—these are, after all, three brown dudes in the whitest city in America—they have become local favorites since their low-key formation in 2013, placing third in Willamette Week’s prestigious annual Best New Band Poll earlier this year.

Máscara vs. Máscara, the band’s first proper release, is made up mostly of songs that were written in the band’s first few jam sessions, and they are bursting with the energy of invention. Opener “Burgers & Balrog” is a surf-rock micro-epic that squeals with spiraling riffage from Segovia; “City of Ruins” finds Fimbres pummeling his set as Segovia plays intricate, Assyrian-sounding licks; “NewYorican” features playful interaction between Segovia and Craig, while Fimbres whips out the shakers and plays a latin beat (Segovia and Fimbres also play in Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, a cumbia group with over a dozen members). These are urgent, intense songs, but they’re also playful. It’s the sound of three homies making exactly the music they want to make, for no one else but themselves. It just so happens that people love it.

Irish singer-songwriter based in Madrid.

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Madrid, 2015.
Neu Matter son atmósferas oscuras y toques de Spoken word sustentadas por la repetición de sus estructuras, que te llevan desde la hipnosis hasta la tensión acabando en una tormenta de sonido.
En su debut, titulado ‘Songs From Lust To Her’, (Analog Love), la banda propone un viaje introspectivo por los recovecos interiores de uno mismo, canalizado a través de canciones de larga duración que van evolucionando lentamente hasta que se desatan en una tormenta perfecta de progresividad. En su sonido se pueden apreciar pinceladas de géneros como la psicodelia, el noise, el spoken-word o el shoegaze. La gran virtud del grupo es saber impregnarse de estas referencias para conseguir un sonido propio que ya cuenta con una gran personalidad.
Grabado por Ricardo Escassi en el estudio Rock&Soul (Lüger, Captains). Su disco conceptual está compuesto por tres canciones que suman treinta y tres minutos.
En apenas mas de un año han compartido escenario con grupos como The Underground Youth, 10.000 Russos (Fuzz Club) y Pop.1280 (Sacred Bones)
Neu Matter demuestran que son uno de los grupos abanderados de la vertiente más oscura de la psicodelia nacional, facturando paisajes sonoros bellos a la par que tenebrosos, construidos mediante mantras reiterativos bajo-guitarra envueltos por el ambiente que genera un sintetizador e instrumentos clásicos como la flauta travesera y violines. Todo guiado por una voz mística que te conduce gradualmente hacia terrenos inexplorados del alma.
“`Songs From Lust to Her´es una mujer largamente abandonada que reclama el retorno de su amado.
Una noche él vuelve, pero dudoso de ser merecedor de su amor y cariño le recrimina su fidelidad.
Ella, es el Ánima(Atman) el inconsciente colectivo. Él, algo parecido a un Ego occidental.”

Influenced by:
fresh sounds
techy beats
artistic rhythms
progressive melodies
warm harmonics 
soulful grooves

Madridian girl living in random places and making what the day brings into her.

All the tracks are made with Iphone 6.

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