Friday 26 of September of 2003, Torre Corp Banca. Caracas, Venezuela. 8:00 p.m.

By Henry Crescini

With some the delay that we can never miss Venezuelan bad accustomed the event began with the presentation of Ashwave, Pedro Castillo's project post-rock soloist, voice and guitar of Témpano. Sat down with their guitar and with their laptop and other teams in front, Pedro demonstrated of his accustomed charisma strolling for a series of electronic atmospheres and very interesting sounds that they left openmouthed to more than one. Their repertoire was of only 5 songs, having in the last ones a deluxe guest, the Mr. Gerado Ubieda, drummer of Témpano who decorated the sounds with the electronic percussion. The highest moment in its show was the final song, "Shark", which they had already interpreted with Témpano in its last concert and, the same as in that opportunity, I gave me chills, because I remind them that the topic tries on the orderly massacre for the régime the past 11 of April of 2002 and samples of that macabre radio conversation can be heard in the one that the orders are given. 

After the respective intermission they go out the lights so that Pedro presents to the prospective ones RC2. The bugles begin to reproduce the "Overture" of the disk and little by little they go leaving to scene the 5 more musicians a guest to begin the show with the excellent song "Joroprog", where they mix the rhythms traditional Venezuelans with a neoprog of high invoice, also using a Cuatro that paged perfectly. The songs were played one after another in the same order in that they appear in their first discographic production. Each musician shone in his instrument, highlighting Eduardo Benatar's work in the drums, maybe the most precise of all, as well as to Rafael Paz in the keyboards, to who I dare to qualify as the genius of the band. In the bass, Fernando Misle makes a clean work, without more pretenses of protagonism but absolutely appropriate to what they demand the songs; in the voice Félix Duque he made ellegance of their high registration and capacities. Mention separated Demian Mejicano deserves evidently in the guitar who demonstrated a high domain of the instrument and big resources, very influenced by John Petrucci. 

The highest points in the repertoire were the same "Joroprog", "Fría" and the end "Se Pierde el Sol". The public prog became present as well as many friends of the band, supporting the Venezuelan Rock Progressive as it should be, since while more grows our more difficult politic-economic crisis it will be to see international bands and maybe be this the lesson that it played us to learn the Venezuelans to appreciate our own artists so much or more than to the foreigners. The disk premiere of RC2 has been published by the record French Musea who have also in its catalog Témpano, Ficción and Equilibrio Vital among other, demonstrating that nobody is prophet in its earth, but let us wait that initiatives like that of the label Musical Mind and a bigger support to our countrymen help to change this.