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audiObelisk: Viaje a 800 Premiere 12-Minute Opening Track from New Album

Adventurous Andalusian heavy psych trio Viaje a 800 made their full-length debut with 2001’s Diablo Roto De…, and it would be another six years before their sophomore outing, Estampida de Trombones, came out. The second album was released by Alone Records, who also reissued the first one that same year, and it’s through that same label that the follow-up to Estampida de Trombones, titled Coñac Oxigenado makes its way to the public this spring.

Coñac Oxigenado is widely varied and doesn’t really belong to any single genre, but Viaje a 800 consistently maintain elements of space and heavy rock throughout, even as they veer into atmospheric interludes on Coñac Oxigenado‘s five extended tracks, which become as much about the mood they create as about the riffs or the complex, highly-stylized rhythms.

If the album is anything, though, it’s meticulous. You can hear it when the organ subtly joins in behind the acoustic/percussion interplay of 10-minute centerpiece cut “Eternal Soledad,” or when opener “Oculi Omnium in te Sperant Domine” gives way to an interlude of flamenco-style hand claps. Viaje a 800 leave room for jams, but nothing on Coñac Oxigenado is happening by accident.

You can find out for yourself on the markedly progressive “Oculi Omnium in te Sperant Domine” by streaming it on the player below. Given that it’s not every year that Viaje a 800 get a new record out, I’m thrilled to be able to host the track for you to check out, followed by some info courtesy of Alone Records:

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Viaje a 800 is an Andalusian and Spanish rock classic. Not as “Andalusian rock” label, but as a feature of identity. A band respected by critics and audience, with a journey full of obstacles (three discs in 12 years of age) and abused by bad luck, with which Alone Records has maintained a close relationship since our label took his first steps as record company. Finally, the highly anticipated Coñac Oxigenado album will be released during the second quarter of 2012. With this album, Viaje a 800 closes a stage in which the band undergoes changes in its classical line-p, which delivered rock gems as Diablo Roto De and Estampida de Trombones. Now, Coñac Oxigenado appears as the end after more than 10 years being a reference in the Spanish doom-prog scene in Spanish language. Unique in its kind and unmatched on scene.

If you want to hear more, the band has two other songs from Coñac Oxigenado streaming through the label’s Soundcloud page, where you can also check out tracks from Black Rhino, Adrift and others.

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