"the highly promising Sacred Summits label debuts with a reissue of Luis Pérez's private-pressed cosmic obscurity, 'Ipan In Xiktli Metztli'.
Beautifully recorded in Mexico, 1981, it offers a mescaline-sharp vision
of deep grooving "cosmic ethnography" combining pre-Colombian
percussion and wind instruments with electric guitar, tape delay and
synths in free-roaming and extended suites. Perez's background in
well-known folk ensemble Huayucaltia evidently
feeds into this, one of only two known solo albums, but the key
descriptor is blatantly psychedelic.
the side opens with a pair of
concise, light-footed groovers, all rattlesnake shakers and melodic
percussive cadence rent upwards with astral wind instruments and richly
evocative nocturnal atmosphere, seemingly preparing us for two extended
trips coming off like a prime Jodorowsky soundtrack. the first,
'Etimología Del Nombre Mexico', projects ritualist prog grooves into a
haunting soundsphere of synth swirl and chant awash with tape delay and
riding the wave between lush ecstasy and abyssal darkness while the 2nd
suite, 'Al Culto Solar' peers further still with truly desolate,
shivering synth atmospheres pierced by a comforting voice which leads
further into the "other" side and a phantasmic array of patterned
basslines, demonic wail and utterly mind-blowing synth hallucinations.
serious stuff, treat with care for celestial rewards." boomkat
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todo un clásico, ponita. una joya *
yes que sí filomena. ¿te acuerdas de aquel disco peruano, 'fuera de la ciudad', de el polen? no se parecen mucho, pero si pienso en uno pienso en el otro
thankx for this gem!
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