Rejecting conventional songwriting, this new band’s sound was assembled from a disparate tapestry of genres, sonics and moods.
The album, thematically and musically, conveys the internal struggle of a similarly comatose protagonist, Cerpin Taxt, and dives headfirst into a near-psychedelic maelstrom, halfway between existence and oblivion. Following a drug overdose, Venegas entered a coma for a number of years, before ultimately awaking and sadly taking his own life.
Volta’s 2003 debut hinges on a conceptual character whose story mirrors that of their late friend Julio Venegas. As Pink Floyd demonstrated on their timeless Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, illustrating the process of mental deterioration is a mission to which progressive rock’s divergent flights of fancy can ably lend itself.
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