PSICOTROPIA - GROG - 2005

PSICOTROPIA means "mental place". The musical creations of Pablo Tato, Jaime Mariscal and Juan Llull from Madrid, Spain intend to take the listener to an ambient as intense as artistic by treating the music in a complex manner based in the mixture of both rhythmic and melodic modern arrangements like jazz scales, improvisation and the use of theater-like, ambiental, esthetical stage presentation.

Their music is unmarked in the frame of experimental progrock style receiving their most important influence from bands like KING CRIMSON, MUSE, RADIOHEAD, TOOL, Mr. BUNGLE, jazz and vanguard classical music. They take advantage of the metal and experimental sonority to create their own and personal style, reflected perfectly in their first album showing all of their different tunes.

"Psicotropia" is the first LP from the band of the same name, recorded, mixed and masterised by Calamb Records company between 2001 and 2002. It compiles all the work of PSICOTROPIA from their beginnings; it's one hour of music in ten songs for which they got the collaboration of some great musicians like Nacho Cuevas, Iván Caramés, Cristian Garma, Raúl Moya, Elisa Puerto, Iván Orosa or Álvaro Tato. It was presented in the live music bar Ritmo & Compás in January 2003 within the First Spanish Progressive Rock Party, where the senior band "Omni". After this presentation, they promoted the album in several interviews for local and national radio stations like Radio 3, Radio Enlace, Radio Vallekas and Onda Latina; also in some stations abroad : Radio 10 (Panama); Zona 820, EXA, Radio Evolución and Universal FM (Mexico).

During the year 2004, PSICOTROPIA will release his "non official second album" with company Nuevos Medios, the original soundtrack of the film Muertos Comunes, which includes two songs of their first album and the complete score composed by Santi Ibarretxe and played by PSICOTROPIA.
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