Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky pt.1
April 21, 2007 at 3:24 am
Photo credit: Milosav Druckmuller
At night nothing beats the sonic attack of some heavy droning psychedelic rock with scorching guitar riffs and earth shattering drumming extravaganza. The kind of music that scorches your brain circuits and leaves you disoriented. The absolute kings of modern spacey, psychedelic freak-outs are the Japanese psych-collective Acid Mothers Temple. It is quite impossible to fully keep track of these people with their releases seeming to pile up every week but “Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky” easily was one of my favourite tracks of 2006.
Also note the drumming on the Numinous Eye track which is quite phenomenal and proves why this kind of music is at its best when recorded live. This album was just released on Archive and is Mason Jones on guitar, performing with different drummers while on his 2005 tour. This track was recorded with Tatsuya Yoshida on drums. A very much recommended release.
- Acid Mothers Temple - Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky
Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky? (Ace Fu, 2006) - Mammatus - The Righteous Path Through the Forest of Old
Mammatus (Holy Mountain, 2006) - Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon for You
Shrinking Moon for You (self-released, 2006) - Numinous Eye - (live at 2000V, Koenji, Tokyo)
With A Little Help (Archive, 2007)
Since these tracks tend to be quite long – and with “Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky” being a half-hour epic – I’ve decided to break the list in two parts, both being about 50 minutes long. Stay tuned for next week’s part two.
acid mothers and wooden ships!!! Epic sure thanks:)
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Seriously?! Hurdy Gurdy?! That’s cool!!! I’ll bet Nigel Eaton is proud.
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Hey, man. Came here from the 2nd half, checking out earthless tracks. I’ve gotten a lot of hits from Motel de Moka but I never knew you threw down this kind of heavy psychedelic awesomeness. Earthless’ “Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky” is completely off the hook, I’m gonna post a track from it tomorrow or the next day. Thanks for the great music.
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Hi Devin, thanks for your comments! We try to give all good music some attention here so that also means heavy psychedelic awesomeness. Certainly a favourite of mine. Still haven’t gotten around to buying “Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky” actually so I’m looking forward to hear something from it on your blog. Cheers.
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Just like Devin…I’m dependent of everything on this awesome HOTEL!!!
Respect.
Michael, Romania.
I find it curious that Devin’s comment is months old yet if you visit robosexual at this moment his last entry from a week or so is precisely about the earthless album he recommends in here and that back in July he said he was going to post “tomorrow or the next day”.
(PS: I might be drunk)
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