Astral Thing

Photo: Oliver Faig & Chema Llanos
El Guincho’s Pablo Diaz-Reixa is rejoined by Coconot comrades Jens Neumaier and Cristian Subira as the first, warm glows of new album Cosa Astral appear from the distance.
MP3: Coconot - Conservad el Rayo
Slurring in on tar-tied drums, the three of Coconot surf skilfully down dinosaur’s spine before settling contented; sticksmen, hollerers and residual meat in a bust-jaw phalanx of giant, tuned steel teeth. Moon shimmer turns these ribs luminous – light beam hanging like a high wire from one home to the next, chants joyful leaking through the bones of this skeleton house.
Slowly the stuck beast is revived, fleshed out by wet bursts of spunk and blood coming from instruments I don’t know the names of yet and given rhythm with flurries played on skins of trusty snare drum. Chants rise, above and beyond the rockier Rhineland Coconot mined on 2006 LP Novo Tropicalismo Errado, up into the sky-swallowing rapture witnessed with Pablo Diaz-Reixa’s gliding El Guincho guise. This is a team effort though, no doubt – Neumaier and Subira adding twists and turns of their own, rhythm and melody colliding so that the determined drive of Alegranza is made more supple to gut-agile ups and downs, but still it’s Diaz-Reixa’s now familiar voice that guides us through, us knowing sounds not words, waiting for more clues with the coming of Cosa Astral (BCore).
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