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Recommended by us on 5th August 2010
...according to our Business Lady on Thu 05 Aug, 2010.
Alastair G is from New Zealand and has been making all sorts of music for all sorts of time. He's been everywhere, man. He's crossed the deserts bare, man. Of travel he's had his share, man etc. 'Mass' is totally crazy stuff tailored toward the discerning, experimental listener. It contains twenty two tracks of mind bending, instrument reversing, face warping, eye twisting, hand jobbing, price slashing jams that will cause all sorts of hmmm's and ohs to spring out of your face pipe. I'm not sure how many different ways I can explain to you that this record is all over the shop so I'll give it up now. Sounds like he had hella fun making it and I'm having double-hella fun reviewing it. Buy this mental record. Peace Out my people!
That Alastair Galbraith should return to the Siltbreeze fold (responsible for his debut LP, Morse, in 1993) for his latest release seems practically tailor-made. But while Morse followed traditional avenues of rugged folk narrativetinged with psychedelic foxing, Mass is an unchartered,one-way trip through a world of ritual. Consisting of 22 tracks, this new album runs the gamut from mysterious beauty to just plain mysterious. Broken guitars, percussive loops, backwards tracking, a (homemade) glass harmonium, lullabies, bagpipe thievery and the odd bit of fighting talk are just some of the many bricks laid here, with Galbraith himself as the mortar and Amiel Balester, Michael Kohler and David Kilgour providing assistance here and there. Mass is an expansive whopper prepared to go anywhere and do anything to get there. Latest album from New Zealand musician with past releases on Flying Nun, Xpressway, Emperor Jones. Includes free digital download coupon
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