Album Review/ Instrumental Rock : Kopernico’s ‘Hacia Ias Estrellas’
Kopernico is an instrumental rock band from Mexico, creating fantastical soundscapes, journeys that elevate the mind and the spirit. The band is inspired by the stars, the constellations, the universe and the story of it all. They try to capture not only the vastness of it but the nuances, the expanding emotion, and the serendipitous role of humans in it.
The imaginative quotients and the ideas on this band is extraordinary. Because as you drift through their instrumentals, you begin to gain a deeper sense of self. You’ll feel connected to something that is inexplicable, something that is all around you but is invisible and unaddressed. Because that’s the plane that they tap into. An alternative reality that carves dimension and perspectives into the reality that you inhabit now.
In their latest release, ‘Hacia Ias Estrellas’ album, they create a psychedelic, chromatic, and abstract world that blooms with visuals and tingles with an enlivening vibrance. The guitar work is simply outstanding. It is smooth and sophisticated, building up into a state of mind and a sense of reality. There is so much potency that it fills you up, and lights you up like a Christmas tree.
In tracks like ‘Sigue Al Atardecer’, ‘Verano Sin Ti’ and ‘Yo Contra el Mundo’, you’ll experience the harmony of their sound. The soft mellow valleys of music that are both as straightforward as the summer sky and enchanting as the sunset sky. The colors just fill up your mind as you drift into it.
In ‘Luces Mensajeras’, you’ll experience a riveting dynamism, both in the melodic structures and beat formations. The chromatic play is also quite spectacular. There is so much to swim through, become immersed in. And just like that, they create such detailed and expansive spaces that are new worlds that you can explore, discover, and just dwell in. As a band that prioritises the feeling that they leave behind, you’ll gain spectacular moments of song in ‘Midnight’, Eclipse, and ‘4:05a.m’. That spectrum ranging from nocturnal to dawn is so beautifully catalogued that if you’re a sensitive person, will make you weep!
