uaral乐队（智利）成立于1996年，98年发行过一张demo, 2005年推出第一张正式专辑《Sounds of Pain》。2007年《Lamentos A Poema Muerto》。在乐队中Aciago 负责乐器的演奏，而Caudal表演人声。他们两人的家庭都打着被流放的烙印，被政府镇压后流放到智利南部做农奴。这种命运带来了他们深入骨髓的痛苦。面对无语的大山，河流，树木，这里寻找不到希望也寻找不到爱，音乐是孤独的他们唯一能减轻痛苦的安慰。对自身命运的乖蹇，对国家前途的绝望和追求自我内心的平静的愿望构成了Uaral独一无二的音乐。

哀痛的符号--Uaral

许多人将Uaral 视为一支METALLICA，但用他们自己的话说，他们自己在创作时并没有留意采用哪一种音乐形式是最好的，采用每一种音乐的形式，只是为了符合一种感情的表达. 所以他们认为自己并非是金属乐队，而是歌特厄运金属农夫. 实际上我觉得他们既不属于阴暗类音乐，更不是极端音乐 他们表 达的是一种常人之情，只是命运将他们置于非常人所经历过的困境，因而他们的痛苦，绝望比普通人更加强烈. 和某些黑暗类音乐所表达的扭曲意识，有着本质上的区别.

正是因为如此，所以我觉得他们的音乐更加真实，也更加能打动人. 他们成立乐队于1996年，8年后才推出第一张正式专辑. 一方面与当时身处的环境限制有关，另一方面，更重要的是，他们是为命运而歌，借音乐疏缓自己的苦闷，而并非为歌而歌. 这从他们对待live show的态度可见一斑. Uaral 说他们并不打算开演唱会，因为听众与他们缺乏感情共鸣，在听众面前，他们难以表达自己的感情. 他们的音乐是属于他们自己的，不足为外人道矣. 音乐的交流亦只限于与其家人及非常亲密的朋友之间.

Uaral这个名字早在他们成立乐队之前的多年即存在他们的心中. 名字的起源来自于他们亲身经历的小故事： Aciago和Caudal 年少的时候曾在一座山上迷路，他们从山中茫然地走下到了一个苹果园中，发现了一条捷径. 而在那里，他们碰到了一位怀抱着一具巴洛克式吉他的老人，在吉他上刺锈着老人的名字----Uaral. 这位饱经沧桑，深蕴世事，睿智而孤独的老人与两个少年亦师亦友，在他们的交往中，这位老人用他的诗，他的吉它，他的歌使他们洞悉了人生，使他们看到了被掩盖的人的本性. 用Aciago和Caudal自己的话来说，Uaral showed us the pain made family...the pain made m usic...for us Uaral is the life.

Uaral是适合一个人独自听的音乐，因为它直击你的内心深处. 它揭示痛苦，唤起你深埋的意识 这些本就是难于人分享的，只有独自一人时，你才可能理解Uaral，跨入内省自我的这扇大门。

Uaral - Uaral

Demo

1997

⒈ Bruma (Intro)

⒉ Surrendered To The Decadence

⒊ Potrero Grande

Uaral - Laments

EP

1998

⒈ Intro

⒉ The Writing And The Cry...

⒊ Lament4. Surrendered To The Decadence (Part Ⅱ)

⒌ Eterno En Mí

from the agony to the hopelessness

Demo

1998

⒈ Preludio

⒉ Surrendered To The Decadence

⒊ Eternal Beauty Of The Trees

⒋ La Vaga Esperanza De Ser

Uaral - acidal

Demo2004

⒈ Hacia Monte Largo...

⒉ Lamentos

⒊ Acidal 　 Uaral - Sounds of Pain　　Full-length

2005

⒈ Lost 03:34

⒉ Surrendered To The Decadence 06:34

⒊ Eternal Beauty Of The Trees 06:01

⒋ Sounds Of Pain... 19:28

⒌ Niche 09:30

⒍ Depresión 05:44

⒎ La Vaga Esperanza De Ser

⒏ Uaral

Uaral - Lamentos a Poema Muerto

Full-length

2007

⒈ Preludio A La Siembra

⒉ La Escritura y El Alarido

⒊ Lamentos...

⒋ Surrendered To The Decadence (Parte 2）

⒌ El Campesino

⒍ Eterno En Mí

⒎ Acidal (Tonada Para El Huerto En Re Menor) (Bonus track)

专辑名称：《Sounds of Pain》

来自智利的厄运民俗音乐乐队uaral 所创作的Sounds of Pain是我近段时期最喜欢的一张厄运专辑。这是一张描写家庭、描写音乐、描写生活的一张作品，它并不极端也并不阴暗。在这里不难体会到流放与苦行僧的生活。细细体味他们，你只能感觉到孤独、挣扎、痛苦、悲怜、命运还有坚韧的追求，这是一张可以在痛苦中净化心灵的作品。或许在追求浮华物质的快节奏生活所充满的欲望、野性的生活状态中，这些仅存的悲凄痛苦才是最弥足珍贵的。

01.Lost 雨点声伴随着哀号将我们带入这个痛苦而又绝望的世界。

02.Surrendered to the decadence 这首更应该算为一首器乐曲，原声箱琴与长笛是这首歌曲的骨架，Caudal的演唱只是为了烘托Aciago的演奏，他的嗓音低沉而又忧郁，悲伤且痛苦着，孤独的感觉油然而生。

03.Eternal Beauty of the trees... 键盘起到烘托气氛的感觉。词曲分为上下两个段落，似乎是三种音乐类型的结合，氛围黑金、死亡与斯堪的纳维亚半岛。按照常理要融合这几种类型似乎是并不可能完成的，但是这首作品中将他有机的结合，整体和谐，并没有冲突。

04.Sounds of Pain 长达19分19秒，是整张专辑的主打歌曲，民俗音乐味十足，这里不得不让我想起德国的一支森林民谣金属、厄运乐队Empyrium，同上曲一样，创作者也有意给分成4个段落还刻意在间断之处加上一些采样，或许这是他们将信息传播给听众的一种手段。和谐、平缓的伴奏加之痛苦的声音令人在细细品味之间更多一份遐想······毫无疑问在这里Aciago仍占有主导地位的，箱琴的连复段是一大特色，正是他那朴素而又充满活力的演奏将歌曲在平缓中趋向高潮。震彻心扉。

05.Niche 跳跃着的音符像河水一样轻轻抚摸着河底的鹅卵石，Caudal的吟唱在和谐与平静、挣扎与孤独中反复交叉。人或许都是充满矛盾的。这里分为的两个段落且都能独立的欣赏。Aciago和Caudal在流放的过程中体验着孤独带来的快感，绝望中继续生活在自己的世界。

06.Depression 是我要重中之重中推荐给大家的，这是我近年来最喜欢的一首歌，键盘的声音响起时，我肃然平静，熄灭手中的香烟，闭上眼睛，徘徊与痛苦与挣扎之间，但是那种情绪似曾相识，或许来自心灵的共鸣吧。也许我的好朋友狂想病人也会被这首歌所深深的吸引。

07.La vaga esperanza del ser 开头部分出现的女声，据说是他们的祖母所演唱的。歌曲中压抑中所追寻的平缓，是的uaral将自己封闭在大山上、草原上。世界无法改变、或许可以改变的那一刻就是自己入土的那段时刻。

08.uaral 乐队主唱Caudal的悲泣与哀号无不感染所有认真聆听体会的朋友们。

专辑名称：《Laments》

曲目：

01.intro

02.the writing and the cry

03.lament

04.surendered to the decadence (part ii)

05.eterno en mi

再ZT

来自于智利的死亡/ Doom/ Ambient 民俗音乐 团体Uaral，成立于1996年，

国内并无太多的介绍资料，在这里对他们这张民谣音乐中的颠峰作品略作推荐。

这张2005的采用了大量的原声吉他加上低沉的死嗓，清新、惆怅而绝望，

同样的大悲大苦，比起永恒沉睡来更加多元化，更有亲和力更能满足金属迷的耳朵。

是张无以伦比的专辑，是一段穿越自我感情的旅程. 它忧郁而大气，呈现出了一种罕见的美，

而Uaral 是用他们强烈无比而又真挚自然的感情来谱写这种美.

一方面，在被流放作为苦工的岁月中，他们逐渐爱上了这块土地，它给了他们家，给了他们希望，

但是同时也给了他们悲痛. 因而歌曲在充满希望和追求宁静的同时，却又那么寒冷而压抑.

民俗音乐式的吉他弹奏占据了主要地位，流畅平缓，似如他们所经常徘徊于其边的Potrero Grande河水一般，

虽然初听似是平静，但听得越多越会发现每一下的拨弦都在震荡着内心.

这部分和Empyrium很有相似之处，然而Empyrium比之Uaral要平和得多，这是不同命运的区别吧；

而内心肌肉痉挛般的痛苦则以doom metal与凄切之声表达出来，即使是我这种对金属不感兴趣的人，

也不由觉得此时的doom metal 的力量正足以将自我撕得粉碎，正是使用得恰到好处.

英文

Over hostile times and fruitless experiences in the horizon,rough episodes were registered in our bodies. By the year 1996,Aciago and Caudal,relatives and friends,walked through different paths but both carrying the piece of a family sentenced to live under the repression,the toil and the labour of the field; subsequently,they were fated to love the land which provides their home with sorrow and hope. In fact by those years,in all familiar night falls,you could see that musical ideas were brought up,though they were never brought to an end because to oblige restrained feelings to give body is a matter of 时间

In 1997,immersed in the solitude of the mountain range,the wine straight in wisdom covered the night with his lineage under the inert gaze of trees and sky,and the moist fire wood lighted and brightened Potrero Grande river who was drowned in beautiful desolation. Just a faint harmony could satisfy the wind who caressed his sonancy. It was a night of poetry and 音乐 where Uaral plastered their veins departing a way of natural comfort to the need of expressing feelings,whom Aciago and Caudal would resort to. As an option,to make immortal musical registers,it was recorded a demonstration for fellows,and it was given the name of “Potrero Grande” and “Surrendered to the Decadence” but a called introduction “Bruma”.

In those gaits,The Niches roads were bloodstained with the end of a relative life. Nobody will forget that day when Uaral plastered his agony with instrumental melancholy on the delicate coffin and gladden the air with all the desolation that covered the room. Those were difficult times full of losses and misfortunes that marked Uaral: as a mirror,mourning,personified in compositions,reflected the pain of a land full of everlasting silence. Thus,without reaching an agreement,new symphonies emerged without resignation.

Uaral guided the traces of members' thoughts leaving in all bands a poem and a chord. In this way,the musical agonies around the wintry downpours and nights of shining blazes advanced through the years in The Niches and Cordillerilla. They were reflected in every tear of the brook. Throughout the seasons is coming the amazement of the breathings of those who were ripening Uaral. For that reason,it is decided for a second time to capture a register: a new one,its name From The Agony To The Hopelessness,that wandered along tree stages and an overture. In 2003,it was handed over an anonym musical register to a selected group of friends that walked sharing the ideologies and the expressions that Uaral gave out. OMG listened to this by accidents of destiny,contacted them,and proposed an interesting project to record the register. They both,OMG and the guys -Aciago and Caudal- agreed on meeting to expose their needs. There,they explained the real meaning of Uaral 音乐 ex! pressions and ideologies,and that they did not want an overexposure of them. OMG understood that everything is mainly to protect Uaral's interests,and finally they entered the studio.

After washing the dishes in the kitchen of The Niches,Aciago's and Caudal's grandmother dried her hands and proudly gave her chant to her lads. She registered the most sincere expression of her feelings,which was used as a prologue in “La Vaga Esperanza Del Ser”，a song of admirable beauty inspired by the aerial caress of childhood.

From all the sorrows that came from feeling decadence,it was achieved a final expression rich of worldly grief,familiar proximity,and hopeless agony: it was achieved Sounds Of Pain...