PSICOTAXI è una creatura aliena, collocabile su coordinate “psychedelic-progressive-space-mental”, nata nel 2010, con Andrea Bordoni (basso), Luca Bresciani (sintetizzatori), Lamberto Carboni (chitarra) e Virgile Mermoud (batteria). Sul finire del 2015 esce per Subsphera il loro primo album “Effects of the Head’s Mass”, che contiene 6 brani di cui 3 strumentali e 3 con la partecipazione, in forma di reading, col giornalista/scrittore Manlio Benigni. Un sound allucinogeno a forti tinte pulp che potrebbe trovare un ideale punto di incontro nello space-rock e nella natura visionaria di band come Hawkwind, Can, Tool e Ozric Tentacles.
Un progetto, nella sua ambientazione fanta-urbana, definito anche “Heavy Mental Poetry: una ricerca poetica che ambisce ad un nuovo connubio musica-parola, non semplice accompagnamento alla lettura, ma contrappunto puntuale a parole che vogliono essere dure come pietre, taglienti come lame e leggiadre come farfalle.
Echi psichedelici iperamplificati, riff ossessivi, elettronica e un immaginario a forti tinte pulp
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In 2015 they are releasing their first album with Subsphera, “Effect of the Head’s Mass”: 6 tracks, three instrumental and 3 composed with Benigni. Gianpiero Risico, on saxophone, and Emanuele “Manolo” Cedrone on percussion instruments, were a precious contribution to the album, which shows the band’s inclination to space rock and the visionary nature typical of bands likes Hawkwind, Can, Tool, and Ozric Tentacles. But it also includes the search for a new approach to such a prestigious and committed musical tradition. All this clearly represents the two faces of the band: between mathematical instrumental rides, visionary precision, phanta-urban environments an alternating with the rock-reading pieces of the author, in line with the heavy Mental Poetry project. A poetic research which aspires to a new bond with music, making the latter not simply a complement, but an accurate counterpoint to words that aim to be as hard as rocks, as sharp as blades, and as graceful as butterflies.
They rise and travel with their mind, then descend, always leaving something in exchange.
Psychadelic hyper-amplified echoes, obsessive riffs, electronica with a strong pulp-tinged vision.
