The andorrans Hysteriofunk are determined
to make clear that in the country of the Pyrenees there are much more than
idyllic places and streets full of stores. Under the snow-covered landscape of
valleys of Andorra, a band that is placed outside certain stylistic currents,
without great direct outer influences hides, and that do not follow the
landlords of any concrete present scene. Because in Hysteriofunk there is rock
and free jazz, funk and psicodelia, experimentation and electronics, groove and
abstraction. But in an exquisite process of musical alchemy, Hysteriofunk
accurately defines an own way, that step appointment several referring previous
ones (of King Crimson to Jamiroquai, of Machine Soft to Orbital, Kraftwerk to
Gong or Brand X), to agglutinate them in personal, fresh, innovating and
vanguardist sound. An incontestable musical wealth, with developments of great
dynamism, an extraordinarily agile rythmical section, keyboards and guitars
that make an intelligent and bold use of the technology, everything flavored
with drops of a subtle and particular humor. And a masters in the construction
of evocative melodies, that transport to us little by concurred and strange
ways, ironic, melancholic, but always disquieting and sometimes captivating. In
the 2006 they present live its second work, Juanjo, engraving in the studies
Grabaciones Silvestres of Marc Parrot, co-producer of the disc, and published
at the end of 2005 by the company Disconforme. 10 instrumental themes, recorded
in a magnetic tape and avoiding the contact with the digital technology,
instruments vintage like a Rhodes Eighty Eight, a ARP Axxe of the 76, or
sinthesizers of guitar Roland GR700. The songs of Juanjo, equipped with a
strange hypnotic and addictive force, not only draw fascinating landscapes and
sonorous scenes, but they cross also them they cross and them with
determination, taking to the listener of trip through them. Year 2007, they
decide to begin to elaborate new subjects to remake the repertoire completely,
and they close all the year in the study where they try and they create the new
compositions. Even so they do not stop doing concerts by Catalan geography and
Andorra, opening for the French band Sinclair. Year 2008 they publish Directe,
his third disc, they present it in the Festa Major del Cap del Carrer,
TestaRock Festival. The 7 of August present the new material composed in the
Festival Colors de Música. The 4 of October reappear in front of the
Barcelonian public in the Festival Coses Nostres.
DISCOGRAPHY
RANDOM
(Disconforme 2000)
JUANJO
(Disconforme 2005)
DIRECTE
(Disconforme 2008)
MEMBERS
Lluís Cartes:
Drum Yamaha
Roger Casamajor:
Keyboards: Arp Axxe 1976, Rhodes Eigthy Eight.
Òscar Llauradó:
Bass Fender Jazz Bass Deluxe 5 strings.
Oriol Vilella:
Guitars Fender Stratocaster American Standard 1988, Roland G707 with GR700
Synth.