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Album of the day: Mani Neumeier & Kawabata Makoto – Samurai Blues

Posted on Monday, April 11th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: It’s easy to feel jaded, or at least overwhelmed, by the sheer volume of Acid Mothers Temple-related product that comes out every year, and tempting to look at the already sagging shelf and just say enough. The problem is, by doing so you might miss out on something pretty cool, like this record. It doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t — basically this is a day’s worth of free-form acid rock jams — but it’s pretty good for what it is.

The line-up is quite basic. Mani Neumeier — of Krautrock legends Guru Guru and a thousand sessions with the likes of Irène Schweizer, Damo Suzuki, and Harmonia — mans the drums, while Acid Mother (and self-proclaimed Speed Guru) Kawabata Makoto plays electric guitar. But things are not as minimal as they seem. Either Kawabata has overdubbed two distinct guitar voices onto each track or he’s developed his capacity for keeping dual tonal streams going simultaneously to the point where he could become an air traffic controller if he ever tires of playing music. But he doesn’t sound like he’s sagging here, and neither does Neumeier, who just turned 70.

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Album of the day: Grails – Deep Politics

Posted on Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: Standard issue post-rock isn’t usually this cinematic. Heists, dates, slasher flicks, the spaghetti western — the best of the canon’s tropes can be heard on Grails’ Deep Politics in pretty imitative counterpoint. And a lot of the credit, this time around at least, has to ...read more

Album of the day: The Psychic Paramount – II

Posted on Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: Way back in 1994, author Simon Reynolds coined the term “post-rock” when writing for The Wire. The spreading of that coinage proceeded to drive countless enervated trios and quartets to substitute pretention for fire, which resulted in college dorm rooms stacked with CDs bearing testimony ...read more