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Cave - Butthash (Trensmat 011)
Cave are a dual drummer led modern psyche outfit from Chicago. They take single riffs and hammer them into a sort of kraut flecked hypnorock with all sorts of strange twists and turns, bizarre arrangements, baffling breakdowns resulting in unique & amazing jams.
'Butthash' explores a damaged and delirious path - like garage rock raised on Magma and Neu/Faust. The guitars crunchy and thick, occasionally opening up into wailing psychrock blowouts, the drums distorted but grooving. Like an amphetamine fueled Circle via the basement, the sound a sweat soaked instrumental groove. Flip over for 'Machines & Muscles', a more lush & epic approach, like a neanderthal krautrock. Reminiscent of Peng-era Stereolab this builds & builds with awesome grinding space rock riffage via warbly synth & flurries of percussive splatter. Entrancing, a heaving, pulsing, throbbing mass, the sound magnetic and irresistible.
The additional multimedia CD features the two 7" tracks along with two other equally rocking tracks and an exclusive and amazing video for Butthash.
Go here for audio samples & to pre-order for a July release.
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Cheval Sombre - I Sleep (Trensmat 012)
Cheval Sombre is the project of New York–based poet (of two books - In Mine Eyes and Becoming) and musician Christopher Porpora.
On this release he produces three tracks of hazy, effevescent beauty. On the 7" spread over both sides is 'I Dream', a hymn of love lost recalling 'Perfect Prescription'-era Spacemen 3, but filtered through that Galaxie 500 summer-sun-space-reverb - all shimmer and throb, oscillating into the ether. The strings languidly build over a gently plucked guitar while all spreads out lazily, like sonic ripples.
On the additional CD is the full version of 'I Dream' along with two exclusive tracks featuring very special collaborators. Sonic Boom, once of the aforementioned Spacemen 3, is on production duty for 'Strangest Thought' and the track bears his unique stamp sounding like a Delta blues broadcast from outer space, twisting & reversed in shimmering air - musical narcotics that flow and drift you right off. Britta Philips, once of Luna and currently of Dean & Britta, provides a remix of 'Troubled Mind' which creates a bleary cloudy atmosphere which is brilliantly broken and carries along with a languid bluesy swagger. Absolutely, perfectly gorgeous.
Go here for audio samples & to pre-order for a July release.
Cave are a dual drummer led modern psyche outfit from Chicago. They take single riffs and hammer them into a sort of kraut flecked hypnorock with all sorts of strange twists and turns, bizarre arrangements, baffling breakdowns resulting in unique & amazing jams.
'Butthash' explores a damaged and delirious path - like garage rock raised on Magma and Neu/Faust. The guitars crunchy and thick, occasionally opening up into wailing psychrock blowouts, the drums distorted but grooving. Like an amphetamine fueled Circle via the basement, the sound a sweat soaked instrumental groove. Flip over for 'Machines & Muscles', a more lush & epic approach, like a neanderthal krautrock. Reminiscent of Peng-era Stereolab this builds & builds with awesome grinding space rock riffage via warbly synth & flurries of percussive splatter. Entrancing, a heaving, pulsing, throbbing mass, the sound magnetic and irresistible.
The additional multimedia CD features the two 7" tracks along with two other equally rocking tracks and an exclusive and amazing video for Butthash.
Go here for audio samples & to pre-order for a July release.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Cheval Sombre - I Sleep (Trensmat 012)
Cheval Sombre is the project of New York–based poet (of two books - In Mine Eyes and Becoming) and musician Christopher Porpora.
On this release he produces three tracks of hazy, effevescent beauty. On the 7" spread over both sides is 'I Dream', a hymn of love lost recalling 'Perfect Prescription'-era Spacemen 3, but filtered through that Galaxie 500 summer-sun-space-reverb - all shimmer and throb, oscillating into the ether. The strings languidly build over a gently plucked guitar while all spreads out lazily, like sonic ripples.
On the additional CD is the full version of 'I Dream' along with two exclusive tracks featuring very special collaborators. Sonic Boom, once of the aforementioned Spacemen 3, is on production duty for 'Strangest Thought' and the track bears his unique stamp sounding like a Delta blues broadcast from outer space, twisting & reversed in shimmering air - musical narcotics that flow and drift you right off. Britta Philips, once of Luna and currently of Dean & Britta, provides a remix of 'Troubled Mind' which creates a bleary cloudy atmosphere which is brilliantly broken and carries along with a languid bluesy swagger. Absolutely, perfectly gorgeous.
Go here for audio samples & to pre-order for a July release.
