Alejandro Marcovich-Alebrije (2015)

Alejandro Marcovich-Alebrije (2015)

“We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

By: Ghost Writer

Alejandro Marcovich was a one time member of Mexican legendary rock band Los Caifanes, he heavily collaborated on some of the band's best records and helped developing thru his guitar playing a unique sound that propelled the band towards stardom and towards international recognition, but it seems that Marcovich timing and music business' are not the same, Marcovich left the band, issued a solo record a decade ago and followed a sporadic career as producer and arranger.

But old habits are hard to quit, and Marcovich returns this year with a new solo record, a world class record different from anything heard this days in mainstream music, Marcovich has aimed very high and this uncompromising record shows it from start to finish.

In Cables, the record's opener we have a full chance to appreciate Marcovich guitar style, as amazing and unique guitar style that seems to envelop Carlos Santana Latin guitar style along with Marc Ribot's flexible and razor edged guitar lines, in Marcovich music there's plenty if room for experimentation and chance to improve and adapt the sound to Alejandro's taste for Latin rhythms, Cables is undeniable Latin, but at the same time Marcovich jagged guitars turn the song simplicity into something else, along with crazy vocal mantra, that gave us a maniac finale, while El Viaje has touches of New Wave, with a dreamy atmosphere, timid guitar lines and a nostalgic vocal melody perfectly carried by Marcovich and company.

For Alfombra Magica, Marcovich resurrects the almost tribal-folky guitar style he developed in order to give Los Caifanes its modern and at the same time Mexican sound, Marcovich shows why he is a genius with a guitar style all of his own, capable of turning his guitar into something out of this world with a musical language with thru Mexican roots and at the same time innovative and out there, becoming a fierce and very successful experiment in the end, again, with a surprising and encouraging almost cathartic ending.

Marcovich shows a heavier and funkier side on the almost sexy grooves if Gozar Contigo, with powerful horn section, devastating guitars and piercing solos, to be followed by the equal guitar heavy but totally surprising Es Para Mi with it's hot Cumbia leanings, and we must put attention given the fact that Marcovich is truly breaking ground with experiments such as this one, and Amorcito Corazon, another stunner that might take the casual listener out of base, with its cumbia and rhumba inclusions.

Nada Que Decir is a crazy mantra repeated rill death in an almost punk fashion, with Alejandro joined here by the intense Jenny Bulbo, that before returning again to rootsier material in the nostalgic and heartbreaking Bolero, featuring beautiful guitar lines, perfectly detailed by Marcovich, and almost taken to a hysterical climax.

The amazing trip end with El Elefante, featuring the vocals of legendary comedian,  “El Loco” Valdez, a popular Mexican character, who gives the tune an almost mystical spin to the tune, which blows out of proportions and turns into something that legendary mystic absurdist Alejandro Jodorowsky might be proud of.