Tierra Tragame

Opus Däi | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 21, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Double Blind Music
• ASIN: B000E6ESRG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,790 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

LA City Beat

"[Opus Däi is] hair-raising & gorgeously atavistic."

Product Description

Double Blind Music presents Opus Däi’s debut full-length album, Tierra Trágame. With this 12-song tour-de-force, Opus Däi cultivates a rich and varied aural landscape. Driving and aggressive, yet dynamic and multifaceted, Opus Däi weaves a broad musical tapestry. Soaring vocals high above mammoth guitars and driving percussion create the exhilarating experience of epic compositions like "Rain," "Sora" and "Nightingale."

Drawing on influences from Led Zeppelin and Jeff Buckley to Tool, Dead Can Dance and The Mars Volta, the superlative musicianship and beautifully crafted songs are the hallmark of Opus Däi. In their home town of L.A. the band has become a top draw, must-see live attraction, sharing the stage with bands like System of a Down, dredg, Linkin Park, The Apex Theory, Depswa, The Accident Experiment and Sevendust.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Debut, July 9, 2006

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Kyte (Cary/NC/USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tierra Tragame (Audio CD)

"Tierra Tragame" may be Opus Dai's debut album, but these guys have been making music together for several years under the name o.h.m. and with a slighly different flavor to their music. This artistic record could bring to mind several more well known artists, but then isn't that almost always the case? Opus Dai manages to seperate themselves from others through the uniqueness of frontman Chrispaul Basso soaring vocals and the excellent guitar work of Atsushi Miyamoto.
Picking up quickly with the second song "Firefly," the pace continues to build with "Rain." The fourth song, "Sora" was brought over from the previous band o.h.m. and doesn't quite hold up to the original song. "Nightingale" and "Vox Populi" have a more somber power to them, but are still heavy-hitting in the music department. Closing out the album is the beautiful "Bella Christa," with some haunting vocal work.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, Brutal piece of classy music!, June 11, 2006

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Mick V. Nicholas (Allentown, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tierra Tragame (Audio CD)

A band like Opus Dai only comes around once in a great while. I haven't heard such beautifully eclectic musicianship since Porcupine Tree! Opus Dai manages to pull off what their influences could not; make memorable, moving music that is enjoyable and yet so incredibly ground-breaking.

I cannot wait to see what else these guys do!

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative songwriting, stunning delivery!, February 25, 2010

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rockchick "lw329" (Western U.S.) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tierra Tragame (Audio CD)

I used to be a less discriminating mainstream listener, but these days music pretty much has to have 3 things to grab me: innovative yet accessible melodies, very strong and unique vocals, and a truly original overall style (i.e., not sounding like anybody else). Opus Däi has all of these in spades on their Tierra Trágame CD. The harder agrresive parts of the songs at first bordered on "too hard" for my tastes (and that has to be pretty hard!), but luckily the heavy sections are balanced in equal measure by gorgeously lush melodic passages, making for a thoroughly palatable concoction. I'm always looking for bands that can pull off this yin/yang balance successfully, and they're sadly few and far between. I was therefore thrilled to find Opus Däi through recommendations for Fair To Midland fans (fellow masters of the light & dark balance). Too bad we have to mine the most obscure depths of the internet to find great music like this.

Influences of Opeth and Tool can be detected on Tierra Trágame, but OD uses these with a light hand while generously blending their own creative style. The singer's voice and the courageous ways he puts it to use are truly phenomenal; I was sad to learn he's since left the band. I haven't yet had a chance to explore OD's newer release with their new vocalist, but he has some gigantic shoes to fill. Basso's strong clear tones pour like quicksilver over deliciously complex guitar lines and nicely varied drumming, weaving into mesmerizing compositions that grab your senses and don't let go. Though I think death metal-type screams & growls can have their place and I suppose they show range, by and large I found them somewhat superfluous here...Basso needs add nothing to the haunting virtuosity of his regular singing voice. Fortunately the screams are used pretty sparingly.

I want more from my music than just pleasantly catchy background noise; I prefer music that demands attentive listening and rewards with an intensely emotional auditory journey. This album does just that; I hear fresh nuances every time I listen to it. Oh, and don't let the cover art throw you -- I found most of the songs to convey an overall positive energy; at moments they could be interpreted as inspirational. (Believe it or not, I've even been known to do yoga to this CD, much to my husband's amusement -- don't knock it till you try it!) Even if Opus Däi had never produced another note, and even if they never make it really "big", Tierra Trágame will endure as a genuine work of musical talent and creativity.