Ventura - Pa Capona...

One of the best feelings in the world is to spontaneously check out a band that you have no prior knowledge of and come to find out that they are quite good. More so, they aren’t just good, but the bands album ends up being one of the better things you’ve heard all year. I usually get this only a handful of times throughout the year. I was beginning to get a little worried however, as here I am in June and I hadn’t had many those special cases up until this point.

How I ran across Ventura is really pretty simple, boredom and MySpace factor into it. So yeah, going from one profile to the next I eventually stumbled across this trio, which after hearing only a couple tracks off their page I knew it was right up my alley.

Taken from their MySpace:
VENTURA is a three piece from Giez-sur-Lausanne (Switzerland) founded in summer of 2002 when current and past members from such fine acts as Illford and Iscariote got together with the firm intention to pay tribute to their first musical love:indie rock.....this was an added flavor of some bad ass riffing as a bonus. After some gigs, serious things started for them when swiss video artist Emmanuelle Antille offered them to use some of their music to her new film "Rollow". That gave them the opportunity to go in the studio to record some tunes and the film has since been shown at the International Film Festival in Locarno. Ventura has shared stage with fine acts such as The pAper chAse, Mediactions, Cat On Form and Scumbucket. In 2005, the band released two 10'' splits vinyl in a row on Get a Life Records. The first split was shared with the mighty swiss band Disco Doom and the second with the brutal Cortez. In 2006, Ventura's first full length will be out. Stay tuned and check out www.getaliferecords.com for more info

Ventura - The Question [MP3]
Ventura - I Keep Starting [MP3]
Ventura - Limits [MP3]

Indie rock or not, their new album Pa Capona partly reminds me of acts like Hum or Houston on tracks like "I Keep Starting" and "Limits". Definitely a throw back in a sense to the driving/pounding hard rock that was more prominently found through the early to mid nineties. All I can say is that I am digging this quite a bit and I suggest that you check it out at their MySpace. I could seriously listen to stuff like this forever. You can pick up Pa Capona through Get a Life Records, just follow the instructions on their page.