lunedì 2 settembre 2013

Hochenkeit - Omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys


Very few information about this album. I found it on Mutant Sounds some years ago.
These are almost all the words expressed on this album you can find on the internet:

"Formed out of the ashes of The Irving Klaw Trio, who had a few choice albums of their own, the trance inducing and elegantly commanding work here maneuvers within a template similar to some of the better Can influenced acts making the rounds circa 2000 (think: Cul De Sac, Kreidler and Fridge), but finds some specific threads of their own to tease from Can's flying carpet and run for the hills with. That said, the force of their vision and their command of this subcultural meme/touchstone render the results far from mere pastiche and revivalism"

"Offering much longer tracks than their debut, Omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys goes even deeper into the sonic realms of Krautrock, ethnic detritus, and sound collage. The CD is an exotic brew, whether venturing into cosmic funk grooves on tracks like "Give Them the Ants" and "To Be Born Drunk and Die Dreaming" or settling into the more relaxed trance-meditation-drift that the Keit are known for. The 14-minute title track, with Arabic flute and percussion washes, shimmers like a desert mirage; "Please Turn Out the Sun," also clocking in at 14 minutes, uses mantra-rock riffs that slowly evolve and devolve. The CD is full of sonic twists, like the jarring sample snippet at the end of "Seen" and the strange spoken word at the beginning of "Please Turn Out the Sun," which only enhance the otherworldliness of the music. It doesn't hurt that Omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys was engineered by Steven Wray Lobdell, guitarist for Faust (and occasionally for Hochenkeit at live gigs). Omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys delves deeper into the worlds that I Love You hinted at"

You can listen the full album on youtube here: