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Old 01-05-2016, 05:07 AM   #2536 (permalink)
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Title: In C
Artiste: Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO
Genre: Acid Rock, Psychedelia
Familiarity: Zero, but I've heard the first track, ie half the album by another artiste!
Recommended by: Frownland

Expectations: I don't know but expect weirdness. How odd that Frown selected an album with three tracks, one of which is the entire album of another artiste I already reviewed in this thread? I'm tempted to disqualify this on that basis, but as I don't want to set him off on a hissy fit, let's do this.

1. In C: Not quite sure what I'm listening to here. It's very ambient, very relaxing and not what I would have considered to have been acid rock, not that I have any clue how that would sound. Man. But this is basically a cover of Terry Riley's suite of the same name, which I thoroughly enjoyed and which cleaned away the filth of Merzbow when I listened to it, so I don't mind hearing it again. I must say, I don't quite remember how it went, though this does sound familiar. But as Riley's effort was kind of esoteric, almost existentialist, if that can be said of music, spiritual even, this is slightly more on the industrial side, though not so much at all that it comes close to ruining the piece. A very good version and not at all wrecking my head. Glad I decided to go ahead with this. Maybe this Frownland guy knows things I don't?
2. In E: This isn't the same piece, is it, just in another key? Sounds vaguely like an orchestra tuning up when it starts. Oh, now some guitar is coming in and changing things up, nice kind of screaming synth noises behind it. Nearly halfway through now (seven/eight minutes in) and the screaming synth has been tailed back to a more sort of wailing one, with some really nice bass coming to the fore. Fine rolling percussion driving it all along. Getting faster and more frenetic as it heads towards the end. Really digging this. Mentions vocals but I don't hear none. Not so far anyway.
3. In D: I suppose in reality there's an element of drone in this, but it's, how can I put this? Pleasant drone. Seven minutes into the nineteen though and it's pretty much the same thing, with I think, possibly, some low chanting? Very relaxing certainly, but not much in the way of variation. Sort of rising voices now, kind of angelic in a way, around the eleventh minute. Oddly, puts me in mind of “Neptune, the Mystic” off Gustav Holst's The Planets Suite. Quite ethereal.

End result: Really quite surprised at how much I enjoyed that. Would not have expected it. A good pick, Frownland. I'll have to be careful not to pre-judge your recs so easily in future.

So, Love or Hate? Love for this, for sure.
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