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Does fur grumble? Here it does anyway. This is another collaboration featuring Finnish people (as well as English ones) - what is it with the Finns this week? Anyway, two of the collaborees are Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo) and Alexander Tucker (Alexander Tucker). Oh, and on the Finnish side Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle). What they have concocted is drifting psychedelic improvised...um...shit that occasionally comes together rather remarkably to a whole. Particularly impressive is track 7 (I don't have the titles, sorry) where the kraut grooves are married with stunning choral vocals that sound eerily like Roland Orzabel from Tears for Fears but are more likely to be Tucker or one of his mates. The vocals overlap beautifully bringing a great crescendo to the laid back Can-like fare. Elsewhere there are some superb musical interludes surely concocted out of stoned jams where the music takes on an ambient peace not too far away from Rothko and the like. I'm also reminded of the American 'space rock' of the mid '90s; Landing, Azure Plane, the Burnt Hair label as well as more recently Leeds's own Frozen Geese who at times perfect this type of semi-improvised cavernous kraut rock groove.
* Grumbling Fur was borne from a day long improvisation in deep dark south London... A smattering of Fins and Englishmen chatter, chant and chime as rail lines whistle and hashclouds billow. Swamped cavernous modes unravel
into vistas of blissed kraut mantra and stilted metal drifts.
* Months pass, O'Sullivan and Uusimaki quietly trundle through the wreckage with a fine tooth comb assembling the hairy monolith. Scene changes and juxtapositions are magnified, temporal dream states fall deeper into comatosed hypnosis. O'Sullivan and Tucker's deep psyche vocal duets fly above bubbling hippopotamus pools and humming electric temples. Lehtisalo barks the Viking lament from sonic Helheim.
* Furrier basks in astral shade.
* After months of obscure delay, this legendary recording is finally to be unleashed by Aurora Borealis on sumptuous digipack CD.
* GRUMBLING FUR are: Daniel OSullivan (Guapo, Mothlite, Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses, Aethenor, Ulver) Alexander Tucker, Antti Uusimaki (Mothlite, Panic DHH) Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord) David Smith (Guapo, Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses, The Stargazer's Assistant, Amal Gamal)
* Features six panels of original artwork by Alexander Tucker.
* For Fans Of: Guapo, Mothlite, Alexander Tucker, Circle.
1. Furfather 2. A Little Cloud 3. Under Fur Moon 4.Curing Hides 5. Green Garden Fur 6. Sommaren H 7. Orb Of The Woods 8. Talvi On Tulossa 9. Bears Wandering Into Milky Chapel 10. The Blessing 11. Eye Of The Bovine Sunset 12. Nomadic Mirge 13. Siberian Priest 14. Furfather's Lament
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