Doble Sesión Nocturna - Volumen I

 

 

Doble Sesión Nocturna - Volumen I
Self-released – 2023
Rock, Stoner, Doom, Psych, Space
Rated: *****

We were informed that the PR email had mistakenly suggested they formed this project only two months ago, but in fact they first got together in September 2022. Indeed, the Madrid five (or six?) got together since September 2022 to jam, record and call themselves: Doble Sesión Nocturna. But even if it was born over a year ago, everything else remains the same. For it was recorded in a double nightly session that resulted in five amazing tracks that ended up making up the Volumen I album. A weekend full of creative energy that flowed like the majestic current of the great magnet. Starting off highly atmospheric the space and psych rock elements taken precedence as you hear the opening track Hielo Negro slowly build towards a crescendo, firstly stopped dead in its tracks by these wonderful heartfelt, chased, emotion filled vocals. After which a fuller sound continues, turning slowly heavier and darker, but the echo parts do return, like a distant street light bouncing of a street filled with ice. Intended to be played and listened to as one take, as they were recorded and created in a similar fashion, the wilder stuff commences as you take part in Peleas Callejeras. Kraut influences take this track to delirious heights and those feral bursts of energy will completely and entirely rev you up. Ready to take on all comers, and they might stomp upon you with their dirty boots, but Botas Sucias turns the mood from ominous and dangerous into something that lets positivity starts to bloom. Which gets this extra kick in the guts at its two thirds, turning Volumen I even more into one of those records to light up the dark months, to possibly even transcend winter and all the cold that normally comes with it. A doom, and darkest of winter wind does return during Doomenko, but there is once again so much emotional vibing that you take it in strides and completely flow with the waves it puts out. And of course, the ending Lisergia – Gasolina will give you enough psychedelic energy to keep going for the rest of the night. For the most part though it rides on wavey guitar lines and undulating drum work. Almost astral sound languages that slowly circle each other as the still emotive vocals keeps burrowing into your being. Together with that synth, machinal freak out, which already gives it this conclusive edge, it all slowly dissipates before doing that double turn and giving you one last blast of Doble Sesión Nocturna. One hell of a beautiful masterpiece…

(Written by JK)

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