1870 (MIL OCHOCIENTOS SETENTA) -Pogo y 4 Historias de Horror, studio album Mexico 2011 (CD digipack)

1. Canto Tercero (9:31)
2. Romance de la Muerte de Agua (7:54)
3. Liquido (7:04)
4. Pogo (11:15)
5. El Horla: 2 de Junio (7:23)
6. El Horla: La Danza de Maupassant (3:56)

Total time 47:03

Line-up / Musicians
- Gustavo Albarrán / French horn, vocals
- Karel Gómez / oboe, theremin, English horn
- Alfonso Cosme / French horn
- Hugo Luque / electronics

Founded in 2006 and based in the city of Queretaro, in the centre of Mexico, 1870 (or MIL OCHOCIENTOS SETENTA) is a one of a kind proposal where chamber music meets improvisation, delivering a complex yet unconventional state-of-the-art sound. All members are well known musicians who have participated in different symphonic and chamber orchestras in Mexico, currently being permanent members of the Queretaro Philharmonic Orchestra. Al compositions comprised in the band's debut release "Mitos de una Resurrección" (november of 2008) are inspired by the groundbreaking poetry of Isidore Lucie Ducasse, a.k.a. Count of Lautreamont: the repertoire is set to describe the poet's state of consciousness which leads to the creation of dark, anguished atmospheres.

The band's sound is intimately linked to groups like UNIVERS ZERO and ART ZOYD (both early eras), as well as the compatriot RIO precursor band NAZCA. The use of digitally processed backgrounds and minimalistic atmospheres bring connections to old-school electronic krautrock and the tradition of musique concrete, not unlike compatriot electronic avantgardists such as OXOMAXOMA and ALQUIMIA.

1870 is recommended to all avant-prog lovers, especially those who are particularly receptive of new, emerging ways of continuing the legacy of old-school RIO and chamber-rock. (Progarchives)