Senor Watkins once again takes a trip around the rock ‘n’ roll world in his quest to find the ultimate band, this time stopping off in a small Spanish city called Badalona in an attempt to tame the debut album from Big Bang, a heavy duty outfit blessed with guitars set to stun. Read on to see if he likes the rock ‘n’ r-olé…..
Big Bang – ‘Sin Renuncia A La Esperanza’ (Self Released) Print E-mail
CD Reviews
Written by Rob Watkins
Saturday, 02 July 2011 05:00
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With a name like that it needs to be built up, and they seem intent on causing a musical explosion all of their own, all the way from Badalona; yeah that’s correct my Uber Rock brothers and sisters and not just my broken down Welsh stupidity, a small city next to Barcelona. Big Bang have stuck with it for ten years now leading up to the release of album numero uno ‘Sin Renuncia A La Esperanza’, roughly translated as ‘Hope Not Given Up.’
‘Oir Y Callar’ kick starts things, an instant slap in the face, musically speaking, with a chunky and powerful tune but ever so slightly disjointed leading us directly into ‘Fiel’, a catchy little ditty even if I don’t have an idea in Hell what the song in question is about as unfortunately the long player is sang in their native Spanish tongue; if you know the language that’s all dandy, but not really accessible to the rest of the world’s metal masses. ‘En Calma’ continues and already it’s pretty evident that Rage Against The Machine are quite popular in Spain judging by the sounds Big Banging out of my speakers.
‘Hay Suenos’ takes it down a tad incorporating an Incubus, Creed, RATM supergroup fusion influence due to a tuneful, delightful studio mastering job courtesy of Andy Vandett (Rush, Porcupine Tree, WA.S.P., Deep Purple). ‘La Espiral’ ups it with some almost powerful blues rock fusion and some great six string progressions from guitarist and group producer Francisco Rubiales. ‘No Fue Por Error’ keeps up the intensity with yet more Vai-esque sounding guitar explosions and a hint of Latin influence to boot. ‘Dime’, ‘Esclavo’ throw us some more Vai stamped tunes and I have to tip my hat to the bass playing-bass production…smack on Amigos.
‘Siento El Dolor’, yet again the band’s influences and inspirations overpower the attempted originality, not a good sign when your humble narrator talks only of this influence and that influence, but the wisely arranged tracks on offer and musicians still shine massively through – ‘Sin Rencor’ ends it much of the same.
Overall an obvious but oblivious musical confidence with certainly a lot of pride and focus, but in this cutthroat industry they have chosen to partake in you really do need to appeal to everything and everybody, and speaking in foreign tongues in my opinion is not the best way forward, although whatever language you understand and speak, music is a common ground. So, on that basis, it is a well produced and admirable opus………….
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