Album Review: Martia Pelepsi - Un verano silencioso (2019)
"Un verano silencioso" - a silent summer. This title is a dedication to the 12 months between late 2018 and late 2019. It was a time in which silently but steadily the silence about growing injustice in Chile vanished. It was a calm before the storm which we still feel today. It was a silent but tense era while people in Chile organized, supported each other, and asked themselves how much longer they can stay silent. "Un verano silencioso" also the name of Carlos Torrejón s first solo album. The Chilenan artist has played a lot of Noise and Rock with bands such as Fosfeno, Am Battom or Lovecraft within the last three decades. The idea to record an instrumental Post-Rock and Noise album came to him in 2017. But after some attempts to do so with former band colleagues, Torrejón aborted the mission. Instead, he locked himself up with instruments and recording tools which led to the release of his project Martia Pelepsis first album "Un verano silencioso...