The Ganjas Laydown

After three recordings, The Ganjas (2002), Fuma y Mira (2004) and Laydown (2005), the Chilean group is already one of the most recognizable of the last time. You can hear the morning song of a rooster in the countryside of Paine, then a drum roll sounds and a parade of music starts moving with the urgency of a moonwalk. 'Alondra' hits and the band shows how sharpened their sense of melody is, 'Dancehall' is part of the band's psychedelic overlooking on Manchester and 'Moonlight cat; is another reggae overpost the Ganjas' own. The slow pulse, elementary English lyrics sung parsimonious by guitarist Samuel Maquieira the volatile intensity of Aldo Benincasa on drums and cymbals, the atmospheric tones that manages Luis Felipe Saavedra from keypads, are all signs of a entrenched group style. Anyhow they sought other routes of flight and found, not only in reggae, rock or psychedelia, but also in shoegaze and in Chile, in the rooster crowing at the beginning of the record and in the queltehues screaming near the end. The music of The Ganjas can be used to fly in any direction and at any altitude. The Ganjas are one of the best exponents of Chilean Rock and the fundamental must-listen-to band for understanding the new chilean psychedelic scene in the last decade. They began the long jam kind of playing with steady drum beats and simple basslines, but adding innovative and colourful lyrics and synths, never losing the song structure." Limited edition of 500 copies for the world.