Art Rock Show – Vientos Moderados del Este – Un manual de signos y sintomas (Week 47)

Vientos Moderados del Este werd opgericht in 2022 in Alicante (Spanje) door drie vrienden: Pablo Mateo: gitaren, bas, zang en productie; César Espí : drums, keyboards en zang; en Paco Esclapés: gitaren, bas en zang. Men had het idee om alle dynamiek van 20 jaar opnames en live optredens te verzamelen om een band te vormen die geen vast patroon zou volgen. De band begon met het opnemen van hun eerste album Un Manual de Signos y Síntomas in 2022 in hun eigen opnamestudio en brachten het op de markt in juli 2024.

Prog Archives review: “Definitely, they are not new kids in town, indeed, they have played so many styles and with so many different people in the last 20 years that it seems they have nothing left to do (Techno, Psychedelia, Jazz, Trash Metal… everything you can imagine). It’s now, however, that they’ve decided to put It all in a pot to make a strange stew that lovers of the unpredictable will enjoy a lot.

‘Un Manual de Signos y Síntomas’ (“A Handbook of Signs and Symptoms”) is the debut album by these three multi-instrumentalist musicians from Alicante (Spain). People who seem to have neither fears nor prejudices when it comes to writing music.

It is important to say that the only thing the 7 songs that make up the album have in common is freedom. There is no one song that resembles any other, nor a trait that defines the album in a categorical way, nor fixed elements that can remind you directly of someone. There will be moments when you’ll feel like you’re listening to the Beach Boys being flayed alive in the fifth circle of Hell or the bastard child that Spinetta and Charly García fathered while listening to Wilco and Black Sabbath. It’s a journey in all directions that nevertheless conveys an astonishing sense of coherence when listened to in its entirety. (…)

Summing up, ‘Un Manual de Signos y Síntomas’ de Vientos Moderados del Este is an eclectic album, very daring, and made with a true love of a free musical expression. A true jewel of modern spanish´s progressive rock that doesn’t try to copy or imitate anyone, offering instead a surprisingly personal and coherent discourse that adds a degree of freshness to current prog-rock that will please both exquisite palates and neophytes.”

Naast Vientos Moderados del Este (Un manual de signos y síntomas), Cheeto’s Magazine Amazingous), Drifting Sun (Trip the Life Fantastic), Tumbletown (Never Too Late), Homunculus Res (Ecco l’impero dei doppi sensi) & Gandalf’s Fist (The Clockwork Fable).

• Thursday/Donderdag 12.00 – 24.00
• Friday/Vrijdag 12.00 – 24.00
• Saturday/Zaterdag 12.00 – 24.00