Description:	PINK VINYL, ltd heavyweight vinyl LP on Blackest Rainbow
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Blackest Rainbow
	Price:	£12.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Ant on 25 February 2010.

Time for some black doom folk action from this mysterious Belgian bunch. What's great about this is that it's both dark and psychedelic and is exactly the sort of stuff that make me visualize witchcraft, pagan ceremonies and bizarre occult rituals. However having said that, although it feels very dark it doesn't feel evil and I think that's a fairly important distinction. The krautrock influenced second track has a really infectious and hypnotic repetitive groove that makes me think of people wearing cloaks and dancing around a huge fire. The third track (sorry I have no titles!) is a far trippier and wobbly number. Later on there are strange voices and things start getting more spooked out although it still remains accessible and at its core it's really rooted in classic psychedelia but with a fine, gritty production aesthetic. I reckon fans of the last record are gonna dig this.

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Sound clips for Commune Cassetten by Silvester Anfang: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. LP (vinyl), Blackest Rainbow, £12.99.

What their label says...

A new slab of wax of tranced out psychotic psychedelic-ness from the occult loving Belgium based clan. This new incarnation being SYLVESTER ANFANG II (as opposed to Silvester Anfang) reached a new level of sheer awesomeness last year with the incredible double LP on Aurora Borealis, on Commume Cassetten they continue their bizarre trip into the darker - but somehow super psychedelic - realm of the occult obsessed mind. There's a real fucked up krautrock boogie vibe throughout but retaining some of the doomed funeral folk qualities of the original Anfang guise, as well as some loose as hell, total stoned out ritualistic baked grooves. The LP comes housed in a techni-colour collaged artwork with a black and white image of a lady, which we can presume is a witch, with a dagger and chalice... a sleeve that really sums up the music enclosed. The sleeves are pro-printed and wrap around the deep black wax which has some sweet full colour labels. This is one hell of a 40 minute trip...