Ararat is the new solo project from Sergio Chotsourian, the Argentinian musician who is better known as the front man and guitarist for the hypno/stoner metal band Los Natas, who has released albums on Ektro, Meteorcity, Small Stone and Mans Ruin over the past decade. As Ararat, Chotsourian explores a form of freeform psych that's really similar to the more laid back and lugubrious psychedelia found on the Los Natas double album Toba Trance that came out on the label run by the guys from Circle, and fans of that album are pretty much guaranteed to dig Musica de la Resistencia. There is some heavier music that emerges on this disc, but Ararat generally sticks with a hazy, druggy vibe that foregoes the metallic riffage of his main band. These seven tracks have a flowing, cinematic feel, with treated acoustic guitar drifting across throbbing Om-like hypno-grooves, passages of haunting flamenco guitar set against hazy psychedelic ambience, minimalist piano patterns circling across electro-acoustic soundscapes, and bits of Argentinian folk music. Fans of the less heavy Circle stuff like Forest will probably dig this, as well. The disc opens with "Gitanoss", which begins with echoey samples, heavy tribal drums and a mesmeric slithering bass line, sounding alot like Om, but with meandering guitar lines and moaning vocals that drift off into an ambient ether filled with droning organs and repetitive percussion. That's followed by the song �Dos Horses� , which is actually a Los Natas song that appeared on their last album Nuevo Orden de la Libertad, a dreamy instrumental with piano and acoustic guitar and effects woven into a gorgeous melody. Then the heavy psych-drone of "El Carrusel� appears, with Tangerine Dream-like keys and whorls of minimal piano emitting a dark circus atmosphere, which then gives way to huge distorted Earth-en riffing that flows into shimmering pools of buzzing pipe organ. The rest of the album shifts back and forth between heavier psychedelia and softer, eerier ambience, with extended jazzy solos running through some of the songs, female backing vocals, harmonicas, the buzzing drone of Indian ragas, mystical Argentinian folk, the fluttering tones of flutes and other woodwinds, and the influence of old kraut/prog bands like Agitation Free and Amon D��l II can definitely be heard in Ararat's long, winding space rock jams laced with a distinctly Latin-flavored brand of psychedelia. The closest that Ararat ever gets to the propulsive, hypnotic heaviness of Los Natas comes at the very end of the album with the song "Castro", which brings out a massive bass riff that locks into a heavy rocking groove while Chotsourian streams his bizarre ululating cartoon voices over top, really similar to Los Natas and Circle both, a heavy metallic trance-rock workout with wailing ecstatic vocals and droning spaced-out keyboards buried in the background. Los Natas fans probably don't even need to be told, but Ararat is definitely recommended to anyone into Chotsourian's main band as well as fans of the circular heavy psych found on the Ektro label. Comes in a full color gatefold jacket.