Frolic Froth

The paths of Victor Basurto (bass, effects); Arturo Lopez (drums) and Jorge Beltran (guitar and keyboards) have crossed on repeated ocassions since the eigthies. Apart from friendship, they've shared agroupations: Loch Ness, Semefo, Caramelo Pesado, Humus, among others, but not until the recent apparition of 'Ouroboros' (Nuggetphase, 1996), have they coincided on an official recording. Already quite deep into the progressive landscape in its most radical manifestations and longing to explore the density and heaviness of their first influences, the trio formed Frolic Froth, band where they've attained the unthinkable, to cast themselves away from any former investiture to generate a sound that keeps light, invisible links with Loch Ness or Humus. In 'Ouroboros' the fundamental premise is to raise a tribute to darkness. The trio creates, during the eigth tracks that constitute the album, an ominous, monolythic sound, a heavy tombstone that with overwhelming lassitude lacerates the more steady nerves. Frolic Froth weaves an aural carpet of crashing obssesivity, featuring acid guitar excursions and lugubre atmospheres where we also find contemporary classic music hues via which the group conveys tension, a tension that once it breaks unchains acid storms, fulgurant electrical shocks straight to the core. There are some compositions where the opressiveness is threatening and the careful listener will notice the existence of afinities with Art Zoyd, Univers Zero, and a little bit less with Etron Fou Leloublan: themes of premonitory atmospheres (Elegiacomo), which acts as a waiting room for some even more dense (Bog), to then guide us through agressive territories (Inmersion)and finally to close with a real pandemonium (Plenihelium). Frolic Froth works as a perfect machinery. Its members have generated a telepathic understanding, as seen on the improvisations (Wick Troglo) and in the constitution of that dark, slow and frightening sound that gradually takes possesion of the listener until its cornered and inmobilized. Sensations such as this are privative to the trio; only them, througout the years have taken from this lode in our country. And 'Ouroboros' is a subtle way to intimidate, without the aid of cheap schemes, a mirrror of the intensity and anguish of the end of century human being.

'Frolic Froth: mirror of human intensity'. David Cortez.La Jornada Newspaper.Mexico.1996

In 1996 Jorge and Victor sold their shares of Smogless Records, the label they've co-founded in 1994, to Jose Luis Garnica. They started their own production company: Nuggetphase and inmediately released 'Ouroboros' by Frolic Froth. 'Eponymous' the first album was released later as a joint venture between Nuggetphase and Smogless. The Lp versions of 'Ouroboros' and 'Malleus Crease' were released by 'W' Records from Italy at the same time. 'House of Cobwebs' and 'Frolic Fourth' are still unreleased*.