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Frolic Froth Ouroboros In 1996 Jorge decided to start a 'neutral ground' band where Humus and Loch Ness concepts could fuse and develop ideas aside from the 'mother bands'. Jorge drafted in Victor Basurto and Arturo Lopez again, being the bassist and drummer of Loch Ness, and called his renewed outfit Frolic Froth. This trio recorded two albums at the Nuggetphase facilities and at the Sky Corner Studio: 'Eponymous' (unreleased so far) and 'Ouroboros', released on CD by Nuggetphase. 'Ouroboros' sounds heavier, more rock-oriented than the latest Humus, especially Beltran's inventive way of using an electric guitar with tons of effects is stunning. This album brings back the wild atmospheres of the 80's LPs by Loch Ness and should please anybody interested in totally psyched out guitar outbursts, bringing back the ghost of Hendrix or old Black Sabbath. If you're talking about 'heavy guitar playing' have a listen to this first, because this guys wipe the floor with just about any similar (?) American, European or Japanese band. World class! From Crohinga Well noš 12. Belgium. 1997
Ouroboros Again a beautiful postcard from Mexico. A signal of creative fertility that the Humus confirm with a new paralell project called Frolic Froth, that we, as an answer, praise again like it was the case with "Malleus Crease", reviewed in the December issue. The Frolic Froth give a particular emphasis to the most hard-psychedelic aspect of the matter via a pulsating mass of sounds, ultra acid mix of guitars pulverized by the whips of the fuzzed bass and ryhtmic forms that travel on spatial dimensions. The trio from Mexico City takes its origin from Victor Basurto (bass) and Jorge Beltran (guitar), whose musical activity starts in the eighties with both projects Loch Ness and Humus, melting finally on the Frolic Froth. With Arturo Lopez (drums, ex-Loch Ness) the three conceived in the course of '96 'Ouroboros', exoteric name of of a monstrous creature vaulted inside the diskette with Lovecraftian features, an amorphous being of horrendous dephts. A transgresion of the daily on the edge with traumatic elements with effect -crashes and atmospheres that belongs to the cotidian and familiar, lived with a sense of wonder for the fantastic. It's the beginning of a game addressing the fear for the ignote, the dreaded presence of something that lurks in the bottom of every ambient, expressed with an effective emotional charge. The incesant rhythm impressed to the music by 'Wick Troglo' and 'Plenihelium' projects a rare and true thriller-fiction suspense, revaluated by sintonies along the cosmoline Amon Duul-Helios Creed-Black Sabbath. A strong energetic central on full tilt to be able to express the most intimate dreams of 'Fou' and 'Bog', etnojazz extravaganzas dressed in percussions and ultra distorted effects or the long march of rotten ghosts in the magmatic 'Widder Hins', a guitarristic reticulum that gives body and reality, with a little imagination, to other universes. Maybe full of monsters and mystery. Without pretensions of clarifying it conmpletely, Like this, having arrived at the sound apex evoqued by 'Inmersion', let yourself explode into a liquid world over big beasts of animal degeneration finning towards an inhabited red monolith, or else install there your best nightmare. And have a good trip!,"Ouroboros" is only the beginning. 'Ouroboros' Giampiero Fleba. Rockerilla. 1997. |