Celebración Del Trance Profano
Noel Gardner
, March 8th, 2021 09:12
With adaptions of Moroccan and Spanish folk music and soaring guitar-playing by Thomas House of Sweet Williams, Concepción s Les Conches Velasques have come up with something very special indeed, finds Noel Gardner
This group, from Zaragoza in the north of Spain, don’t appear to enjoy any great domestic profile or have the aggressive marketing nous to create one, nor are they part of any obvious movement or scene of like minds. Spinda, an indie label from the south of the country who’ve released
Celebración Del Trance Profano, say “We love great bands making noise!” by way of a motto. Only with this album, Les Conches Velasques’ second, can it be called a band per se: previously, on a self-titled Bandcamp EP from 2018 (later turned into an LP from 2020 by adding two songs), everything was played and sung by Pablo Jiménez. Now, he’s one part of a quartet, but LCV’s hypno-disco punk-funk exaltat