SARAX is an experimental/progressive rock band born in Santiago, Chile. It was originally formed as a trio in 1995 by bassist Demetrio Cifuentes, who was later joined by Marcelo Larenas on guitar and Juan Pablo Velasco on drums and keyboards. SARAX became a quartet with the incorporation of lifelong friend and collaborator Nicolás Figueroa as an official member during the writing sessions for "570.Kyhtera", the band's third album. Their manifesto in their web page reads: "Our main interest is to create music that is defiant, innovative and, why not, insulting!". Their strategy is mostly based on the use of diverse musical sources in the context of rock: psychedelia, metal prog, jazz-rock, Crimsonian stuff (similarly to their illustrious compatriots TRYO), electronic ambiences, weird adornments and effects.

With a prolific background behind their backs, each founding member agreed to assume an uncompromising eclectic attitude toward the type of experimental rock they wanted to create; also, the fact that drummer Velasco is also a professional sound engineer helped the band to find an early reliable source for the kind of sound they intended to achieve for their music. Their debut album "Fécula Bicorpórea" is a collection of musical ideas gathered across 11 pieces, which were recorded in several times during the mid 90s. The next two albums were more focused; in fact, they both are concept-albums that revolve around Juan Pirrón's cycle of death and rebirth. This character represents the half-anarchist, half-existentialist philosophy of Cifuentes and Velasco (the band's most recurrent writers). In "Ejecución", Pirrón is a rebel in jail, awaiting for his execution, scheduled for the next morning; in "570.Kythera", this same character is reborn into the namesake asteroid, only to find out that his new environment is about to meet its final cosmic collapse. The sense of confusion and despair that the tyranny of reality provokes in the mind of man suits perfectly well SARAX's music, which is full of anger, irony and rebellious moods. Nowadays the band's activity is scarce, since drummer Velasco resides in LA: anyway, according to an interview he and Cifuentes gave to a Latin American e-zine in early 2004, there is the possibility of releasing yet another chapter in this peculiar Pirrón saga somewhere in the future.

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