Posts Tagged ‘prog rock’

Album of the day: Hypnos 69 – Legacy

Posted on Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Loving pinched from HellrideMusic.com: As of lately I’ve been returning to grooving and jamming all day to the awesome prog sounds of: Eloy, Sixty Nine, Van Der Graaf Generator, and some classic badass rock like Captain Beyond and when I got this sweet thing in the mail I was pleasantly surprised and it couldn’t have come at a better time for me in terms of musical taste either.

I sadly cannot get into most of the current retro sounding bands as I seem to just need that original feel that only comes from the 30 year old albums, but Elektrohash has fooled me a few times with acts like: Colour Haze, Kings of Frog Island, and now Hypnos 69, they sound so fucking genuine 70’s psyche / prog rock that I can’t help but fall under the spell they cast upon me. The album, as are some of the tracks, can be moody so don’t expect everything morose or spacey as they may begin. Maybe the reason this works for me is that just mentioned but also the jazzy rhythms used throughout because I think of organs and jazzy improvs with trippy lyrics when I think prog and that’s what I get here overall.

Legacy kicks off with a great catchy and still epic track, ‘Requiem (For a Dying Creed)’, that is woven from the threads of folk-like almost acoustic passages complete with a flute, a heavier psychedelic jam free-for-all, and the absolutely essential saxophone solo right smack in the middle of the psyche jam. This track is unmistakably prog, not neo-psyche or some stoner variety of a band and really does set the tone for the album as whole. Starting out an album with a 17 minute track isn’t usually something I’d advise as it makes better for a closer or middle bridging track given most peoples short attention spans, but Hypnos 69 pulls it off and it really DOES pull you in to the album nicely.

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Roadburn playlist: August (Walter)

Posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Obviously, we need good music on the stereo while we are busy putting together the 2010 edition of the festival. Be on the lookout for updates from time to time on what’s spinning on the Roadburn turntable, CD player and Winamp player (And if you are on Last.fm, come join ...read more

Album of the day: Long Distance Calling – Avoid The Light

Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Sputnik Music.com: Post-rock is difficult; the sub-genre is amorphous and loosely defined at best. For the sake of simplification, take a spectrum with the “Gods” at either end; that is, put God Is An Astronaut on one side and Godspeed You! Black Emperor on the other. You’ll ...read more

Album of the day: Astra – The Weirding

Posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from our spiritual brethren at Aural-Innovations: When I first heard The Weirding, the epic debut album from San Diego’s Astra, I had zero information on the band, other than a release date of 2009. Was this a re-issue of some lost album from 1970, I seriously wondered? It ...read more

Album of the day: L’Ira Del Baccano – Si Non Sedes Is Live MMVII (Digital Download 2008)

Posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

L’Ira Del Baccano are a dual guitar, bass, drums, electronics quartet that play an all instrumental blend of stoner rock, metal, space rock and psychedelia.  They had been informing me whenever new tracks were made available on their Myspace site and each one has been a gem.  And their first ...read more