Posts Tagged ‘Krautrock’

Album of the day: Liquid Sound Company – Acid Music For Acid People

Posted on Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Praise for Liquid Sound Company‘s Acid Music For Acid People from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records:  Here’s the latest (but the first disc we’ve reviewed) from a band that’s been baking in the Texas sun for a while now, Liquid Sound Company. While Texas sure has a tradition of drugged out underground psychedelia (we’re thinking 13th Floor Elevators, Red Krayola, among others back in the ’60s and ’70s, plus many more recent examples), this modern-day hippie psych rock outfit seems to drawn most of their inspiration from the krautrock scene, and thus comes off like a Texas-sized answer to Japan’s Acid Mothers Temple.

Seriously, any fan of Makoto Kawabata and AMT ought to check out LSC… more like LSD! Acid Music For Acid People, yessssss: total spaced out, Eastern-inflected, freeformguitardrone explorations, with electronic effects and repetitive rhythms, totally hypnotic maaaaaaan. For those into the krauty likes of Ash Ra Temple, Guru Guru, and Agitation Free (in fact, one of the six songs here is entitled ‘Agitation Free’, or perhaps ‘Free Of Agitation’, it’s listed both ways, and in any case is definitely meant in tribute that trippy Berlin band). Plus if you dig Expo ’70, Lumerians, Carlton Melton, etc. this should be up yr alley too.

LSC has a subtle heaviness, not to mention guitar-wrangling chops, that might just stem from the fact that one of the folks involved here is none other than Brainticket head honcho John Perez, best known as the guitarist of long-running epic doom metal act Solitude Aeturnus… but it’s in Liquid Sound Company that he lets his freak flag fly!

While there’s moments that maybe sound a bit sinister, really this is music meant to make you smile. Especially, the mellow ‘Morning Sun’, an exquisite guitar solo from Perez, a demo track indeed recorded one morning as the sun arose. Lovely. That’s the shortest piece here, at just about 3 minutes. Most are much looooonger, and were recorded as live jams, the band members all successfully tuning into the same cosmic vibration together…

The last 2 cuts are from a bootleg recording made at a live show out in the boonies someplace, the band doesn’t remember much about it, except that there were supposed to be a coven of witches in attendance, and they couldn’t see what they were doing ’cause the fog machine was filling the room to extreme opacity. Some years later, a tape turned up, and now while they still can’t really remember that night, they can HEAR what happened… and so can you, and get utterly tranced out too…

At 40 years old, Aquarius is the oldest independent record store in San Francisco. We try to only carry music we love, and we’re always searching for more new, cool, weird and wonderful music. All of which we then share with you, our loyal customers.

Tags: Acid Music For Acid People, Album of the day, Aquarius Records, Brainticket, John Perez, Krautrock, Liquid Sound Company, psychedelica
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Album of the day: Hey Colossus – RRR

Posted on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: Purely by taking the time to even stumble across this webpage, you will most probably be aware that “heavy” can take on all kinds of forms when it comes to music. What South London-lurking noise-urchins Hey Colossus define as their take on this art ...read more

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 ...read more

Album of the day: Moon Duo – Mazes

Posted on Friday, March 25th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: For artists from David Bowie to the Birthday Party to Liars, seeking refuge to record in Berlin has resulted in some very dark, very far-out releases. So when psychedelic pop twosome Moon Duo – which features Wooden Shjips’ Erik “Ripley” Johnson on guitar and fellow San ...read more

Album of the day: 3Leafs – Eat The Earth

Posted on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Praise for 3Leafs‘ Eat The Earth (self released) from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: We’ve been waiting for this one for a while now. The infamous, and much talked about “mushroom record” from this SF improv psychedelic space rock collective. So called, because the entire thing was conceived, created, performed AND ...read more

Album of the day: Cluster – Cluster 71

Posted on Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from BBC Music: Monolithic particle generators emit insect chat to the skies, while adjacent cloud territories lie pregnant with oscillating womb throb. Welcome to the sound of Berlin 1971: transcendental proto-techno conjured by Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Conny Plank (who’d only be on board for this album). ...read more

Album of the day: Majeure – Timespan

Posted on Sunday, January 9th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Blurt Online: Zombi drummer A. E. Paterra spins out gleaming, endless highways of synth rock on this solo debut, giving the nod to Neu! in his motorik lyricism and Tangerine Dream in the chilled, futuristic washes of sound. The disc’s first half consists of three original compositions, ...read more

We Want Your Top 10 Albums Of The Decade

Posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Update:  The votes are in, the points have been awarded and the math has been done. More than 150 of you have taken the time to forward your Top 10 list for the Roadburn Album of the Decade. Continue Reading (please note: the comment box down below is closed!) As ...read more