A.E.I. (Alianza Exploradora Intergalactica)

hey everybody,
check out
“Beauty of your eyes” Panophonic vs. Un.Realhttp://www.myspace.com/unrealpr

also check out…
“Ataque de los clones”and “Marvelous K”
http://www.myspace.com/fauna8bit

Info about what the project is all about…

A.E.I. (Alianza Exploradora Intergalactica)
The concept, originally known as “La Alianza” or “The Alliance” featured many different artistic acts and included secret handshakes between their participants on some organized shows through out the island of Puerto Rico.
The name “La Alianza” metaphors over the alliances of musicians and the idea of using computers and musical instruments alike to create new sounds. It all started on the road by multiple musicians, bands, noise makers, fans of IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) and other noise movements around the world.
The shows started like something very casual and even sometimes with people on laptops creating stuff and/or recorded jams by members of other great psychedelic projects from the Puertorrican underground rock scene.

In the past few months members of the band Un.Real have played a couple of shows under the name “La Alianza” and worked on a number of songs for a Noise / Electro pop music project developed by Héctor Caolo bass player and composer from the post rocking psychedelic band and Raymond “Gadget” Rivera from the post punk, electro rock band Psiconautas.
Working together on Fauna 8bit Gadget’s solo proyect influenced by Shoegaze music, Blitz, Electrofunk, mixing multimedia from Sega 64 and Nintendo Entertainment System consoles.
“This project does not try to dictate the direction of our bands” We are just making music and it’s all good” “In the next couple of weeks our plan is to enter the studio to record a new collection of songs” said drummer Samuel Diaz and a very important piece in the creation of this new material.
Check out some of our videos at: http://www.youtube.com/user/Slayers10

“Ataque de los clones” is one of six songs selected from a number of jams featuring Raymond “Gadget” Rivera and the rest of the band. In one of our shows a person said the song sounded like a theme song from a David Lynch movie and that made my night, because we are all fans of him said Rivera “Something like this you just have to put it out there”. This version of “Ataque de los clones” was pre-recorded this year for a mix down demo, these include weird DM’S, beats and is considered by the group as a “bone without flesh” chase of destruction, dramatic and melodic chaos. “Ataque de los clones” proximately showing at http://www.myspace.com/fauna8bit

Among the songs selected by the group to see the light on this new recordings session are the funky riffs, and vicious lines of “Marvelous K” , electro post rocking thriller originally recorded by Fauna 8bit “Electoclashy” and featuring “What We Would Do” & ]”Beauty of your eyes” Panophonic vs. Un.Real written and arranged by Tommy Lugo (Arnold Lane, Stellarscope, Panophonic) and

For more details stay tuned to http://www.myspace.com/unrealpr

Feedback is always appreciated!
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Tom
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quedate aquí- written by tom lugo

Vuelvo a caminar en el valle del pesar

Tantos pensamientos no puedo procesar

Te veo tan tranquila, en tu cama a morir

La vida sin ti yo no se vivir

 

Quedate aqui… conmigo

 

Un angel protegiendo tu fragil existir

Sentado en silencio sin nada que decir

Tu mano en la mia, fria, te me vas

Quiero que te quedes un vida mas

 

Quedate aqui… conmigo

 

 

 

 

 

so blind- written by tom lugo

I can’t believe I took you for granted

I’ve been so cruel to you

When you we’re all that I ever wanted

I’ve been such a fool

 

How could I be so blind?

How could I be so unkind?

 

I admit that I was wrong

And you deserve so much better than this

I beg forgiveness for all I’ve done

My devotion to you is what I promise

 

How could I be so blind?

How could I be so unkind?

 

I promise to love you again and again

Here it comes- written by: tom Lugo

There it comes

There it goes

All the things

That I know

Are so wrong with me

to all degree

 

Mostly I frown

Sometimes I smile

Hope you stay

For a little while

I just need more of you

It is true

 

All the things

That you said

Are still rolling

Through my head

You were right I was wrong

Now I don’t belong

 

 

 

Temptation of the fruit- written by Tom Lugo

Such terrible times are here

Plagued by greed and deception

Envy fueling cruel intentions

All at the heart of our dissension

 

When you coming down

Again, again, again, again

 

Promise kept in silent prayer

A cry of help in desperation

No hope left for the generations

The exodus to our annihilation 

 

When you coming down

Again, again, again, again

 

 

 

Ready to Blow- written by: Tom Lugo

Oh my darling let me count the ways

Of how all your views will change

 

Don’t waste more time, cut to the chase

All you think you know will be erased

 

 

It’s so hard to say: Go!

When it’s ready to blow

 

The only promise is that you will bleed

Misery and suffering are guaranteed

 

Don’t be brave, pain makes you numb

A second chance might not ever come

 

It’s so hard to say: Go!

When it’s ready to blow

 

 

You really have no idea of how you’ve made me feel

You really have no idea of what I am about to deal

 

You are all I see- Written by Tom Lugo

I had a great time with you yesterday

I want to repeat it again every day

The sight of you makes me want to cry

Your eyes resemble the beauty of the sky

 

I waited so long for you to come along

You’re my song

 

Your lips addictive like heroin

Soft as clouds, so sweet your skin

I close my eyes and all I see is you

Deep like the ocean serene and blue

 

 

I waited so long for you to come along

You’re my song

 

I had a great time with you yesterday

I want to repeat it again every day

 

 

 

 

walls of soundfest 4 line up announced- sat oct 4th 2008

Here is the up to date info on

WOSF4

www.myspace.com/wallsofsoundfest

The Walls of Soundfest is proud to present the performers for the 4th annual festival dedicated to the left of dial sound (shoegaze, dreampop, goth, postpunk, psychedelic, electro pop, indie, etc).

Date:

Sat Oct 4th 2008

Location:

Central Station

1917 Princess Anne St
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
(540) 371-0300

 

www.centralstationva.com

Line up and times:
1:40-2:15 solar temple suicides
2:20-2:55 myotis
3:00-3:35 the opposite sex
3:40-4:15 remora
4:20-4:55 northern valentine
5:00-5:35 skydivers
5:40-6:15 the antiques
6:20-6:55 2090
7:00-7:35 the obit
7:40-8:15 mythmakers
8:20-8:55 stellarscope
9:00-9:35 soundpool
9:40-10:15 tba
10:20-10:55 tba
11:11:35 tearwave
11:40-12:30 screen vinyl image

 

http://www.myspace.com/screevinylimage

http://www.myspace.com/tearwave

http://www.myspace.com/soundpool

http://www.myspace.com/stellarscope

http://www.myspace.com/theobit

http://www.myspace.com/theantiques

http://www.myspace.com/skydiversmusic

http://www.myspace.com/northernvalentine

http://www.myspace.com/remora

http://www.myspace.com/theoppositesex

http://www.myspace.com/myotis

http://www.myspace.com/solartemplesuicides

http://www.myspace.com/2090

http://www.myspace.com/themythmakers

 

panophonic review by sonidobscuro (in Spanish)

 A continuación estamos ante -quizás- la banda más underground de los sonidos guitarreros con deuda del shoegazing y la movida británica de fines de los ochentas, tras el cual está el nombre de Tommy Lugo, quien -a través de los años- ha seguido su camino con dos propuestas Panophonic y Stellarscope. Así, la propuesta musical del puertorriqueño ha crecido gracias al desarrollo de la red, primero con descargas de temas, y luego con la participación en compilados como en Supple Selections.

El presente disco es uno que vió la luz el 2003 a través de su propio sello: Patético Recordings, y se titula Después de la Tormenta Eléctrica. ‘A Dormir’ es el track inicial y nos transporta a tintes guitarreros acompañados de sonidos dispersos sobre la cual se pasea la voz de Tommy con `todos a dormir, vamos a vivir el sueño eterno´ de más de cinco minutos (!). El gran inicio prosigue con ‘De Pensar’ con mayor apego a la programación electrónica, pero -a la vez- con mayor explosión guitarrera y batera.

‘El Comienzo’ posee siete minutos intensos de bases electrónicas con las líricas de un estilo de vida mientras los doce minutos de ‘Todo Es Nada Hay Que Pena’ posee golpes de batería exquisitos y alarmantes que le dan la pausa al mismo mientras la voz de Tommy se confunde en un mar de ambientaciones programadas. ‘Estrella Fugaz’, posee la fuerza para ser un single de la presente producción en el cual la percusión posee más golpes unida a la guitarra -con similitudes a los primeros años del proyecto- le da el rumbo al mismo.

El sexto -‘Mistaken’- y séptimo track -‘Suave Amar’- poseen casi seis minutos y medio de duración y con preponderancia al sonido de la ´batería` en las que logran recitar influencias Slowdive y Ride, aunque con diversos rasgueos guitarreros, para en el segundo acercarse también a My Bloody Valentine.

El unísono voz-guitarra se presenta en ‘Lo Que Quieras’ de tan sólo tres minutos mientras que ‘To Adore Dead Living’ sobrepasa los dieciocho minutos, balada en los que se expresa los sentimientos que nos asaltan en nuestra existencia, con cambios de ritmos excepcionales. Dicho track, llega a sobrepasar la hora de programa en el disco, en el que se hará notable las diversas influencias indie del proyecto, tema en el que la batería se calma hacia el noveno minuto mientras a inicios del décimo se anulan los platillos -hasta el final del mismo- para que sólo marque el paso la guitarra acústica y las bases electrónicas para que al promediar los trece minutos vuelva a cantar Tommy.

La producción acaba con un track en el que una especie de rap marca la lírica principal (y política) mientras el título del mismo sólo marcará la pauta como coro.

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Trabajo comentado por: Reynaldo Gonzales

http://www.sonidobscuro.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1003

panophonic- Todo es Azul: Lo Mejor de Mi review by splendid zine

Spend a couple of years in South America (I did, if you’re wondering) and you’ll notice something about their version of pop music. Perhaps due to the fact that every other word ends in a vowel, warranting an abundance of long-ass melismatic vocal phrases, almost everything you hear on the radio is way over-the-top dramatic — self-important yet often lilting, as if the world could be cleansed or plummet into the sun depending on what the vocalist sings next. Think Italian opera or Celine Dion. Panophonic’s Tom Lugo effectively captures this spirit on Todo es Azul: Lo Mejor de Mi (Everything’s Blue: My Best), but he also taps into something else: he creates grandiose music that fits easily into his heavily reverbed, spaced out vocal gestures.Using an array of guitars and digital instruments, Lugo crafts his version of Cocteau Twins-meets-Luis Miguel. Tracks such as “Almasgemelasajenas” and “Y Tu en Mi” show Lugo’s propensity for creating dense textures — he combines vocals, guitar feedback, drones and arpeggiated synths into a fine-tuned mix. “Las Dos” presents his version of a dream band in which Robin Guthrie handles guitars, Robert Smith holds down vocals (in Spanish) and William Orbit programs and produces. “Cuervas y Velocidad” runs in a similar vein, with half of the near ten-minute epic being a tasteful “guitar versus the delay pedal” battle.

Lovely? Yes. Intriguing? Definitely. Sensory overload? In the words of the Kool-Aid man, oh yeah. All of this translates into a very interesting disc, full of well-crafted thoughts and fully realized ideas, but as you might imagine, it’s a bit difficult to endure for 70 minutes — the tracks are best served one at a time.

 

– Dave Madden