Milagrosa

Totimoshi | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 8, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Volcom Entertainment
• ASIN: B001A2ACX2
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,500 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sound The Horn

2. Fall And Bound

3. El Emplazado

4. Last Refrain

5. The Seeing Eye

6. Milagroso

7. Forever In Bone

8. The Whisper

9. Gnat

10. Little Bee

11. Dear

Editorial Reviews

This gritty and raw Bay Area group have pointed to their Latin heritage as playing a key role in the shaping of their sound. "Milagrosa" means miracle, miraculous, or miracle worker. The album's theme comes from a Cuban folklore that teaches love and overcoming violence with compassion. These songs are expansive and multidimensional, heavy and dynamic. Produced by Page Hamilton (Helmet) and mixed and engineered by Toshi Kasai (Big Business, Melvins).

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars real heavy rock for the chosen few, maybe October 17, 2008

By Fernando Benítez V

Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase

Get it please, get it! make me feel that I'm not alone, and feed the mouths and stomachs of totimoshi members so that they can continue chruning out EXCELLENT music... This is true, timeless, heavy, melodic, cerebral and catchy heavy rock, not metal. In a perfect world, bands like this would be filling up stadiums or at least playing them, just like it used to happen back in the 70's, when you had Foghat playing with Mahogany Rush, and Rush, and Deep Purple, and Jeff Beck, and Johnny Winter, and maybe, if you got really lucky, Miles Davis and Queen and... you get the picture. Unfortunately, back in the early to mid-70's I was a child living in a repressed and somewhat poor country: Mexico, and rock n roll was banned by church and state- not anymore, though, but that's why I love this music so much: the lure of whatever your parents and teachers and cops and society thought was horrible and immoral and just plain 'primitive' haha! but rock music is so much more: it's art and it's sex and it's a whole trip, and it's beautiful, even in its alleged 'ugliness'. a ticket to other dimensions. it still is, in spite of mtv and corporate fashions and lost youth... whatever. my point is that it feels might good when you discover a band of this calibre, a 'newer' band, that is... this power trio can rock as hard as cream or blue cheer, hell yes! but they can also be as inventive and technical as say, the melvins, helmet or the rollins band... and as doomy as sabbath, trouble and the obsessed. their lyrics are total poetry, stuff about loss and pain and death and solitude and the passing of time, winter-bound, foerever bound... a nice soundtrack to these rainy days that seemingly are here to stay, to this slow-motion apocalypse called global warming and man-made destruction.... but you know how it feels when you hear someone making art out their own pain and sorrow, which matches your own: you grow wings and feel inspired to do a few nice things of your own, like, maybe, your own rock band...
Ok, all in all, this is a great album. oddly enough, it will not sell by the bucket, since this stuff is way anti-commercial, though it borrows freely from classic rock, prog, metal, punk, grunge, and the blues, It's a damn shame, but, on the other hand, it's nice to know that they won't become shopping mall staples anytime soon. it is also one of the most 90's sounding albums I've heard in a while- and since things seem to come in cycles, I guess this postgrunge type of music is not cool to trendies and bandwagon hoppers, whteher in the underground or under the light of mass media. while everybody and their uncle are talking about how 'metllica is back' and other clichéd and not so truthful rhethorical news items, a few of us like to look ahead and find bands that make sense, even when they themselves are certainly giving a nod to an illustrious rocknroll past... does that make sense? I guess not, but there you go. believe me, if I could, I would give this album six stars out of five:****** Read more ›

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Completely Rockin'/Shreddin' October 1, 2008

By Bradley E. Rintoul

Format:Audio CD

If you're in need of some good metal, this is one to pick up. Not "nu" metal, not "death" metal, not "black" metal, but just good ol' what I'd call HEAVY metal. "The Far Seeing Eye" is the best track; if it doesn't do it for you... then don't buy it.