Voice Of The Seven Thunders - Voice Of The Seven Thunders

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 04 Feb, 2010.

Voice of The Seven Woods have transformed into Voice of The Seven Thunders! From what I can tell it's Rick Tomlinson and Chris Walmsley who were originally in Vo7W with the addition of a new chap called Rory Gibson on bass. There's your facts... And they're more than likely wrong! Anyhoo after the Vo7T 7" a coupla weeks ago the CD of the self-titled album has landed (the vinyl is gonna follow in a week or 2 we think). Continuing on from the Vo7W album you can hear a progression as the album is considerably more ass kicking than I ever remember 'em being. This album is a total 70's psyche acid rock fest which which make you want to flail yourself all around the shop like a true rock god. Over the pummeling drums you've got some immense sounding guitars with solos and widdlyness happening 24/7. It's a busy album with lots going on so there's plenty to keep your fried brain going and there's also much rock for you to move forwards and backwards with pouted lips. I'm doing it now while I type.... I have no control over myself from doing it whatsoever. Such is the power of rock. Well worth checking out!

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Named following the rare find of an 1870 s tome full of lectures on the Apocalypse, VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS is the new project from Rick Tomlinson - the distillation of years of divergent musical exploration that have followed his much-acclaimed VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS debut (Twisted Nerve, 2007).Taking leave of his previous incarnation, this new project is a notable departure; with infernal and primitive energies mingling with the bucolic reveries that won him previous acclaim: this time round, multi-instrumentalist and sound sculptor Tomlinson introduces us to his fully-fledged rock group. Open Lighted Doorway begins the album with a glimmer of what went before, the pastoral shades of Tomlinson s earlier recording sappearing soaked in reverb as if corrupted by time. Giving way to the monolithic Kommune its rhythmic percussive layers of huge primal weight and beat, and a build up of rolling guitars. Out Of The Smoke follows with its acerbic electric and acoustic contrasts, The Burning Mountain like flames erupting from an Anatolian mirage, a tide from the East; its fury subsides only for the exceptional, purely acoustic,respite offering Dry Leaves , before Dalälven breaks the spell with its vertiginous howl. Cylinders swells from dark kosmische drones into warm opiate depths, only for Set Fire To The Forest to erupt like a nefarious dervish, a blinding acid haze that is quenched by final track, stripped down vocal harmony - the nostalgic, introspective Disappearances .Already drawing comparison with bands from the heyday of 70 s acid rock and the likes of Amon Düül II, Peter Green s Fleetwood Mac,Japan s Flower Travellin Band, the early years of Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground s drone jams, as well as the electronic kosmische of Cluster and the unhinged organic grooves of International Harvester. The album was recorded in just three days in the spring of 2009 -featuring long-standing collaborator Chris Walmsley on drums and Rory Gibson on bass, without prior rehearsal, in Andy Ramsey's Stereolab studio with engineer Jimmy Robertson.Voice of the Seven Thunders will play selected dates as a full band live across Europe in 2010.

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