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1. Tsunami (11:06) 2. Crystalline (7:50) 3. Evaporate (5:53) 4. Voyage Automatique (13:24) Total Time: 38:17 Artwork [Visuals] – Luk Sponselee Engineer [Production] – Mark van der Heijden Other [Perpetual Afxion] – Jeanette And Rolf Pedal Steel Guitar [Pedalsteel] – Rene van Barneveld* Performer [Music Conceived And Transmitted By] – 35007 Performer [Music] – Bertus Fridael, Mark Sponselee, Michel Boekhoudt, Sander Evers Producer – Boekhoudt*, Kloos* Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Pieter Kloos Technician [Roadknobwizard] – Ken Kuipers CD Stickman Records - PSYCHOBABBLE 037 (2002, Germany) A Dutch band melding several styles of Krautrock music into one (Space, psychedelia, bluesy Post Rock). 1. “Tsunami“ (11:06) floating space synths that are joined in the third minute by a SWANS-like guitar line before the band explodes at 4:35 with a full on heavy blues-rock cascade of sound. We’re definiely in the Krautrock realm of psychedelia now. In the eighth minute the heavier elements recede while synths slowly re-take the spacefield. Wonderful! But wait! It’s not over! It’s just the calm before the storm! At 9:00 an explosion of sound introduces a wild cacophony of rock instruments, all playing in a free-for-all of collective yet individual Kali-esque celebration of life and destruction. () 2. “Crystalline“ (7:50) rich blues-rock psychedelia from the opening notes, this could be an excellent base for a Robin Trower guitar solo or an ELECTRIC ORANGE song. At the end of the fifth minute the guitars, drums, and bass fade out while creepy space synths take over, looping into an infinite-seeming pattern before the (now expected) explosion of grist and nails comes at the end of the eighth minute. Pretty cool, if now predictable, song. () 3. “Evaporate“ (5:53) cool bass and drum groove with floating GONG-like glissando guitars, organ, and power chords filling in some of the spaces over the top. It gets pretty acerbic and raw in the fourth minute as guitars wail away over the heavy bass and drum groove. Turns computer spacey at the end--for the final minute or so. Better than most Gong songs I know. () 4. “Voyage Automatique“ (13:24) kickstarted by the previous song (which bleeds into it’s first 30 seconds), this one quickly establishes more ELECTRIC ORANGE/GONG sounds and patterns with another groovin’ bass and drum track and swirling pedal guitars weaving in an around each other over the top. Saw-like lead guitar enters in the fourth minute to add to the mix but then everything drops down to quietude in the sixth while metronomic bass and drum play show off their CAN-like discipline and fortitude. The rest of the heavily distorted electrified instruments slowly re-amp up but then recede into the background again in the tenth minute, slowly fading further and further into the background until they are gone, leaving only a weak, fragile-sounding synth “signal“ to tether us to something “real“ within the vastness of space--but this, too recedes, leaving us alone, abandoned, isolated in the overwhelming silence of cosmic spaciousness. Cool, soothing, engaging, yet probably could have done a little more like the previous songs.(26/30) Total Time: 38:17 Review by BrufordFreak
