| CD REVIEW Pombagira |
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Band : Pombagira The name Pombagira comes from the Afro-Brazilian religion of Quimbanda. Within the confines of this religion for those socially marginalised, Pombagira's attributes are strength and protection. She is the wife/consort of Exu, a trickster spirit that has in the past been mistaken for the devil. She is the protectress of the downfallen, prostitutes and the weak. She commands obediance and is considered to have a fiery constitution. Because she 'serves with both hands', an adage describing her flexible approach to how she treats humans, she is to be feared and revered. If you treat her with respect she will potentially grant you what you wish, however, if the compact is made and then broken she will unleash a surge of destruction that will leave no-thing standing. It is this kaleidoscope of hidden depth and potential within the expression of the life world, here enfleshed, that is made manifest through the medium of sound. It is this thin veneer between the hidden and the seen, the fixity of a reality and the possibility for exploration into the sphere of the invisible that defines the inspiration for the band.(taken from www.myspace.com/pombagiradoom ) Pombagira’s terrifying desolate mixture of bleak drone and sludge rock is a bitter pill to swallow. Filled with growling riffs, disturbing atmospheres and disheartened vocals, the group sets a very gloomy tone as their sinister musical creation oozes throughout the speakers. The riffs are big, the guitars tuned way low, and the vocals are of a tortured mongoose. “Castdown earthbound”(12.54), “Defiled throne”(13.03), “Soul to sleep”(22.22), “The darkness”(19.58) and “Unearthed, unresolved servitude”(16.29) roll around in the same sonic sludge as fellow UK’s Electric Wizard without the psych, Sleep’s Jerusalem, Ocean, Ocean Chief,… 80/100 Cosmicmasseur. |