Luis Nacht - La Hora Inexacta (2018)

'La hora inexacta' is the eighth album by Luis Nacht, counting The Uncertainty, multimedia experience edited by Club del Disco in 2015, in which his music was accompanied by the texts (and voice) of Ricardo Piglia and the collages by Eduardo Stupía . Although the composer always keeps his style, each album says something new.

In this case, the formation has its peculiarities: Sergio Verdinelli and Carto Brandán play the batteries, coinciding in two themes, Le pega a Gardel (track 3) and Z (8); Patricio Carpossi and Juan Pablo Arredondo the electric guitars, with which the rhythmic base is enlarged and that also produces interesting rhythmic and harmonic shifts. If we add that Mariano Otero plays the electric bass, from the timbral point of view the combo is close to a rock sound that, in the riffs moments of the guitars, has something of the progressive music of the '70s. To be understood: closer to a hallucinatory reminiscence than to progressive rock.

Throughout the eight tracks the group expands and reduces: it may be that only one guitar with the drums is playing or that everyone is improvising, which takes it a lot towards the free. The structures of the themes, far from the song form, give the sensation of great vitality: the pieces go through different phases. In spite of that, the durations are dissimilar and the disc in total has the right length.

After moments of grace such as the great and already mentioned Lets Gardel or Camille (5), emerges, after a chaotic group magma, the beautiful Titi, Carpossi theme that opens his album The white dragon. He does it like a shy quote at the beginning, and then he ends up with an orchestra, in Z, to close the record. A great colophon for this unusual record.