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| Brittany on stage. |
Shadows Made Of Sound
By Carlos
Zaldivar
Shadows on the road behind.
Shadows on the road ahead.
Nothing can stop us now.
Neil Peart
INTRODUCTION.
It started in Mexico
the project of a band, which was called RADIO SILENCE beginning of the
nineties. Luis Nasser, Ricardo Gómez and Andrés Aullet started the project.
Today Luis is the stronghold and the only original member of the band. Back
then, in 1994, the band disintegrates and the following year Luis and Ricardo took
the project carto the US, but after two years, there were no good results.
Luis, as it should be,
persists with RADIO SILENCE and 1997 calls Andrés and Ricardo and edit the “Laughter
in the Dark" album, which is a well received and with great omens.
For the next year the
band changes its name to "Shadows Made of Sound" in Latin:
"SONUS UMBRA".
Under this name they edited three albums:
2000 - Snapshot from Limbo
2003 - Spiritual Vertigo, and
2005 - Digging for Zeros
With some changes in the Line Up in 2013 was born
the album: “Winter Soulstice", which is well received and (for me) is a
brain orgasm. In fact all albums are.
For this year, 2016, edited "Beyond the
Panopticon".
Any album of SONUS UMBRA that you, dear reader, do
not have… deserves a punishment. Well, no, just kidding.
CONCERT.
I heard the
"Digging for Zeros" and was impressed by the music. Immediately I
researched and I became a huge fan of this band born in Mexico.
I got the other albums
and finally in recent month May, a rumour spread that SONUS UMBRA was visiting
Mexico City. Then I began to be aware, every day, about news on their sites.
Little activity on the
site and suddenly, on Monday June 13 this year, I saw the flyer announcing that
SONUS UMBRA will be presented the next day at the HOBOS Bar in San Angel (A Mexican
suburb). I had to cross the entire city and time was short. But no matter. I would
move heaven, earth and sea to be there. (And I did).
Before this, I heard the new album "Beyond
the Panopticon" to warm my mood up.
Great!
So, around 8:50 pm on
Tuesday 14th, we arrived at HOBOS Bar to enjoy such a great band.
An exquisite concert,
full of Rock, Pop, Prog - Metal and music for the soul, the heart and feed the
bloodstreams of our body. Everything was an ecstasy!
Listen live to such
great legends of good music, and catalogued as "elitist" because they
exist only for “true connoisseurs music lovers” and fans of this kind of music.
The HOBOS Bar became
then a shrine to Metal, Pop, and Rock and Progressive which were great
musicians.
Very few people, good service and an exquisite
show.
In addition we could enjoy the first successes of
SONUS UMBRA played by musicians of yesteryear.
It notes that the band
has two vocalists, male and female: Roey Ben - Yoseph and Brittanny Lee
Moffitt; the privileged and exquisite voice SONUS UMBRA.
By the way, SONUS UMBRA has its base in Chicago,
Ill.
And we’ll see you soon, friends.
BRITTANY.
Well, I think this is the
first review where I make a special space to dedicate a few lines to this great
vocalist: Brittany Lee Moffitt.
She walked up to the
stage with a very beautiful dress, straight hair, long, clear and very well
groomed. A dark sweater, long, which she would take it off later. Beautiful
arms holding the microphone still in my mind.
Seeing her up on stage
and grab it, taking the mic and delight us with her sublime voice, was an remarkable
experience.
Beautiful and
charismatic. Humble and good-natured. Ipso facto I took some selfies with her
and I can assure you that she is part of a generation of musicians who presents
a long way in music world and that in a few years, she will become a legend.
Then, when that time comes, I may boast: I met "years ago" and that I
have her autograph in my T-shirt.
This was your first time in Mexico City, and I'll will see you next time and take you out for dinner. Sure I will.
Thank you very much for sharing your voice, music
and your presence on stage.
Applause!
SONUS UMBRA
Line Up:
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| Luis Nasser and me. |
Roey Ben-Yoseph - Lead Vocals.
Brittany Moffitt - Lead Vocals.
Rich Poston - Electric Guitar, Keyboards.
Steve Royce - Flute, Keyboards, Vocals.
Tim McCaskey - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals.
Andy Tillotson - Drums, Acoustic Guitar.
Luis Nasser - Bass.
