![]() Also has similarities to another non-verbal game more experimental even than Limbo, called Vane (2019) rated 63 on Metacritic. ![]() In this it's a worthy, creative original addition to the LImbo genre of games. yes, what's missing in reviews here is this is 50% Limbo and 50 Pan's Labyrinth, the underground part of the movie. Yes, what's missing in reviews here is this is 50% Limbo and 50 Pan's Labyrinth, the underground part of the movie. There are areas where the controls just get really frustrating, Had to redo several sections an absurd amount of times just because there was one spot where the controls would not respond properly. I took one point off because it has some camera bugs and also because I think they didn't test the PC controls that well. It reminds me somewhat of the game "Inside" which was also an awesome game. This platformer's game play is innovative and interesting with mostly escape type puzzles. It is creepy but not in an uncomfortable way. I took one point off because it has some camera bugs and also because I think they didn't test Wonderful art style, graphics, and sound. A lovely and fun album”.Ĭomes with insert and download code.Wonderful art style, graphics, and sound. From songs like “La Culebra” making use of a vocoder in his typical latin sound to songs like “Serious” playing with rhythmic changes and topping it off with some synth flavors. I was already a fan of the song “Aprende” which he released on 7 inch and with“Mentallogenic” he takes it a step further in that same vibe. From running his own little funky recordstore to running his own label and making his own music by playing every instrument himself. ![]() “I really respect Alex Figueira’s DIY ethos. Cumbia beats and psychedelic elements with that Latin touch of soul & Funk!” “The one man band Alex Alex Figueira comes through with some major flavors on this one. ![]() The former Fumaça Preta drummer & front-man's debut solo album does not disappoint!” You can always count on Venezuelan-born, Amsterdam-based, multi-instrumentalist, music-fanatic Alex Figueira to surprise and innovate, whilst consistently keeping it true and real. “Incendiary, lysergic takes on South American and Caribbean music from one of the scene's truly authentic and eccentric producers. Discover this record NOW, or wait until all your friends (or enemies) recommend it to you later.” ![]() Reducing an expansive palette of influences to a recipe that tastes wildly exotic but comfortably over-familiar, Alex’s roles as both scavenger and chef, bookend a whole ensemble of other highly adept musical personalities in between. ”Just when outernational vinyl vampires thought they had it all sewn up, the metronomic makeshift magician known as Alex Figueira unravels the entire fabric of your record collection to expose a gaping hole where PUNKUMBIA and Transplant-Tropicalia should be. Entirely composed, recorded, produced, and mixed in a frenetic nine-day studio stint. He remembers very little of the work, but the outcome is this record. It was then he decided to transmute his hallucinations into music, an all-or-nothing cathartic solution.Īlex entered a feverish dream, fuelled by the kaleidoscopic motion of the cosmos, ancient meteor showers, and visions of forgotten interstellar South American gods. He was told there were “cosmic entities” trying to manifest a message “too complex for us to understand in this dimension” and the only way he could find peace was to deliver those messages in a decipherable form. After almost burning the studio down, he turned to his neighbourhood’s most experienced psychic, seeking answers. Soon, Alex found himself in a sleepless state and decided to cleanse the studio, with hallowed rites and the intense burning of Palo Santo. As the visions came more often, his wife Hester reported that he babbled during his sleep about South American demon Yurupari. He recalls nightmares of winged creatures inside timeless structures of Escherian architectures playing cosmic instruments amidst tropical storms and acid rains. An album that sounds like The Menahan Street Band playing in a tropical jungle, at dawn, right at the point when the first rays of the sun penetrate the dark depths of the forest.ĭuring the 2022 summer of natural disasters, under an unprecedented heatwave, and haunted by news reports of ancient relics, sunken ships, and hunger stones resurfacing as rivers dried-up all-over Europe, Alex Figueira started to hear uncanny metallic vibrations and eerie melodies of untraceable origins, day and night. ![]()
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