Odd Clouds - Odd Clouds

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4...according to our Brian on Wed 28 May, 2008.

Oh good, I got summat on the esteemed Qbico records of Italy. That's really funny cos I was afraid I was gonna land myself some more dog faced indie cretins. I've got a picture disc of (initially) nightmarish minimal free jazz stumbling & spazzed out voodoo drone made by people with a healthy disregard for any semblance of a tune. Instead Odd Clouds sound like a bunch of zombies in chains falling around in a church whilst some experimentalists tune up. Then the druid monks come out to chant over some beautiful tribal drumming and spectral skronk. The sheer scale of otherworldly sounds produced by this 8 strong collective is quite stunning indeed and only occasionally makes for challenging listening. On the whole there's lots of absorbing textures, unnerving ghoulish noises and howls mingling with some proper out-there chattering & squawking jazz horn manipulations & industrial ambience. If you've ever imagined wolves playing jazz in an abandoned church with lots of found percussion then this is your album of the week. A most rewarding listen indeed and not a patch as headache inducing as I feared! The flip sounds like the barmiest thing alive, just as discordant and fascinating with touches of Thinking Fellers or Sun City Girls out-rock tribal discordance & wibbling freak-noise.

ODD CLOUDS (QBICO 79) pic disk, artworks by Chris Pottinger & Jamie Easter

rec. betw 2004-2007 in Detroit, Ferndale and Hamtramck; Michigan

performers:
Chris Pottinger
Jamie Easter
Heath Moerland
Glen Morren
Chris Sprague
Matt Smith
Noah Eikhoff
Free Wade

5...according to richard fulsun.

these guys must wander the desert lokkin fer dope and wen they find it immediatly injest and jam 4 7 days

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