Does my concept look big in this?
This Miami-based electronic-dance band present themselves as iconoclasts who want listeners to question reality and contemplate art as an evolutionary concept.
'Organic' suggests something that exists spontaneously while 'arma' is the Spanish word for the creation of something unknown.
What was originally a collective of seven band members has been whittled down to just three who each operate under anonymous pseudonyms: phAxas123 (vocals, bass, synth, samples), dhArma111 (electronic drums/vocals) and abrAxas223 (visual computing).
They write collaboratively from a creative HQ called 'Awarehouse' as part of a process they describe as "An amalgamation of art and action, music and mayhem, intent and instinct, and the deeply held belief that thought, given its proper place in the cosmos, can unequivocally free us all forever and ever".
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They name-drop heavyweight philosophers like Nietzche, Hegel and Russell as thinkers on the same wavelength.
With such a big build up the music is , almost inevitably, something of a let down.
Any futuristic sensory assault that might come in their live shows sounds less than radical on disc.
If there is linguistic complexity or altered states psychology, it is effectively drowned out by the thumping techno beats. The tracks Love Is Not All and Discordia contain the essential ingredients of their energetic but soulless sound.
OrganicArma at Reverbnation
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