2010 release from this California Post-Rock group Paisajes is an album of sound, color and textures brought to height by 13 years of perseverance and creative inventiveness, eliciting admirers along a quest to hone their creation of sound and feeling. Tristeza pride themselves on the conveying and execution of such sensations. 9 new pieces presented to listeners from a comforting maternal like source. Providing playfulness, beauty and curiosity along a path of confident mellifluous exploration.
H**M
Lush, thoughtful, enveloping post-punk instrumentals
than a year after their release of Fate Unfolds, Tristeza returns with a new full-length album of enveloping post-punk prog-rock instrumentals. Their press release name checks Spacemen 3, Felt and Talk Talk, but the strains of Televsion, Can, Stereolab and Tuxedomoon are also strong. The opening "Raise Your Gaze" threatens to transition from space into a blinding cacophony, but pulls back as the tune burns off the last of its fuel. James Lehner and Luis Hermosillo (drums and bass, respectively) provide the impulse drive, with the guitars adding a psychedelic overlay. The group adds syncopation and a Latin rhythm to "A Traves de los Ojos de Nuestras Hijas" (a title that alludes to the group's collection of five daughters), but its funky bass line keeps things quite modern. The repetitive figures suggest post-punk instrumentalists like Pell Mell, but the intricacy of the playing reaches to jazz and prog-rock - but freed of the bombast that often sunk the latter. This is lush, melodic, rhythmic, thoughtful and enveloping. [©2011 hyperbolium dot com]
B**E
This is without a doubt, Tristeza's best work yet!! A must have!
I've listened to this at least a dozen times since it arrived yesterday and I still cannot find a favorite track... I LOVE THEM ALL! I cannot remember the last time I said this about an album. It is by far, Tristeza's best work to date!
