In a seemingly ongoing effort to shoot my own work productivity in the ass, I was at the office late yesterday evening dicking around on the internet, and I came across this YouTube clip for the song “Demonizador” by the Santiago, Chile, band Demonauta:

Demonauta — not to be confused with Argentina’s Dragonauta despite the “d–auta” similarity — are a pretty regular fixture in my feed on Thee Facebooks, which if nothing else speaks to their ongoing capacity for self-promotion. I respect that. It finally got me to hit up their track above, and I wound up thinking it was well worth the time. Hopefully you did too.

I saw from their profile that they had a Soundcloud page too, and in hitting that up, found that not only is “Demonizador” available to stream, but so is the entire Vol. 1 full-length from which it comes.

To wit:

And that’s how fucking easy it is to “discover” a new band these days. Roughly 12 minutes of time invested (most of that spent listening to “Demonizador,” which as you can see almost accounts for nine on its own), and I’m drenched in gloriously heavy psychedelic fuzz. It’s not as much commitment as buying an album, waiting for it to arrive from South America, and digging into it over time, but it’s immediate satisfaction, which seems to have an appeal of its own if this post and the course of human existence in general are anything to go by.

Hell, looking at that widget above, you don’t even have to leave this site to download the whole of Vol. 1 if you don’t want to (and I don’t know why you’d ever want to leave; I never do). There’s a button right on there. What a fabulously interesting thing musical globalization has become. Just listen to how Kyuss‘ “N.O.” riff has been reworked into the verse of Vol. 1 closer “Desvanecer” if you don’t believe me.

Thanks to Demonauta for continually putting themselves on my radar, and for making their music so readily available. If you also dig what they do, feel free to drop them a line and say so.

Tags: Chile, Demonauta, Santiago, Unsigned bands

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