Psych-O-Path Records
Las Malas Amistades : Jardin Interior (COL,2005)***'
This is an album of short songs of semi senile hip-absurd acid folk (similar to the Spanish Musica Dispersa album or Pau Riba’s demented folk album, reminding me also of the humour which the Red Krayola members had on their second album or later) with 4 tracks of layers of absurd harmonies and disharmonies, or elsewhere with beautiful poetic meanders (especially with female voice and acoustic guitars). This is 2/3rd acoustic but there are some lost electronica spaceships around too or some toy rhythm boxes or keyboards.
The group is founded in 1994 by a group of art and film students in Bogotá, from Colombias largest university. Influences vary from indie rock to Spanish-speaking 60s and 70s heroes like Raphael, José José, and José Luis Rodríguez “El Puma,” all kinds of tropical music (Joe Arroyo, Willie Colón), and the soundtrack music of Morricone and Michael Nyman, together with ideas learned from the Fluxus artists and the Brazilian Anthropophagist avant-garde. The result has no direct elements from their inspiration but has created a rather consistent poetic world of their own.
An enjoyable album when not taken over seriously.
