Follakzoid- II (2013)

Follakzoid- II (2013)

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”

Pablo Neruda

By: Ghost Writer

After listening to The Holydrug Couple´s almighty dreamy project, I decided to dig even deeper in Chilean psychedelia, and an obvious step into this world of futuristic thinking, ancient spirituality and pragmatism, is Follakzoid, another band from the sound whom seem to be as forward thinking as the already mentioned THC, and whom are just as capable of delivering another southern musical jewel.

A couple of years ago, Follakzoid issued their second record, and believe me II is one hell of a record, taking psychedelia right into the space (or kosmische)  and establishing a direct link toward Germany's great krautrock, a powerful bass and a really steady beat are the first elements we encounter when entering this really heavy trip, bright and resounding synthesizers follow quickly the same path, as we end up traveling down a cosmic autobahn, in a way this Chilean band has managed to recreate with perfection some of the music the mighty Can and Neu! conjured decades ago in near obscurity, 9 is a perfect opener showing the mastery the band has achieved in reproducing the motorik sound, that "apache" beat created by Klaus Dinger in the streets of Dusseldorf.

Rivers introduce us into more dynamic beats closer to the almighty Can, and leaning a little bit towards the drumming of the legendary Silver Apples while evoking a little bit the cosmic black magik of a band like the great Wooden Shjips, for Trees one can imagine the mighty Jaki Liebezeit, the man-machine drummer of Can, as the drums maintain awesome dynamics rhythms and let the guitars gets a lot more wilder in order to put us in a deep trance.

Pulsar might be the central piece on this record, and it shows in the way the band slowly build the amazing tune, first the tremendous interplay of drums and bass, and then the guitars and synthesizer, finally with the bass leading the melody perfectly flanked by the keyboards which help a lot to create the perfect atmosphere, the right space for this amazing freak out, a superb exercise in trance inducing lines, psychedelics, telepathic interplay and out of this earth endurance.

Without a doubt, Follakzoid is a direct sign of a cultural change and of a country which foresees the world as its cosmos, with boundless imagination and a place as citizens of the world, not confined to a country, to a language or to a continent, this is a universal triumph, the sound of a world coming closer, it might be no surprise that they might not be too well known in their homeland, México, Brazil, Argentina or Chile might not be ready for them, but the whole world and a few of us are already listening, and what a joy it results.