Quote:
Originally Posted by Enverxis
Any recommendations or pointers are appreciated, thanks.
|
(all quotes are from allmusic.com)
Atman was a very interesting global folk-psychedelia group:
"Polish experimental ethno-folk collective Atman was formed in 1981 by multi-instrumentalists Marek Styczynski, Marek Leszczynski and Piotr Koelcki, who remained the core of the group throughout its lengthy existence; other regular collaborators included vocalist Anna Nacher and Tomek Gulinski, as well as bassist Thomasz Radziuk. Forging an aesthetic they dubbed "forest music" — a sound created with acoustic instruments and Tibetan instruments — the members of Atman divided their time between performing and offering workshops in instrument building and forestry, finally releasing the cassette ...jak rozrzucone po ziemi kamienie... on their own FLY (Freak Living Yourself) label in 1991. Cassettes including Soundreams and Gadajaca Laka followed before Atman made its American debut with the Drunken Fish EP Save the Earth; other efforts for the label include 1997's Personal Forest and 1999's Tradition."
Atman disbanded, and ended up with a much creepier sound as
The Magic Carpathians:
"Multi-instrumentalist Marek Styczynski and vocalist Anna Nacher, formerly of the eclectic Polish band Atman, formed the Magic Carpathians in 1999 with a loose coterie of their friends, embarking on an even more experimental trajectory than their former band. Combining electronics with traditional instruments and motifs from around the world, the Carpathians play what could only be described as ethno-folk deathcore. The group released its first album in 1999 on the Fly Music label, entitled Ethnocore. They followed in June of 2000 with Book of Utopia, released on the Obuh label. Ethnocore 2: Nytu appeared in spring 2001."
************************************************** ********
From Japan, there is the solo work of
Makoto Kawabata, or his amazing group,
Acid Mothers Temple. The group has a prolific output, and blends punk, metal, power rock, psychedelia, and mixes in tradtional music. One album that features Tibetan chanting is La Novia:
"Acid Mothers Temple, led by guitar visionary Kawabata Makoto, is the preeminent Japanese psychedelic folk-rock band. Given the guitarist's penchant for extremes — he's also a member of Main Liner and Musica Trans Sonic — there's no reason to suggest that this little gem, which is a CD reissue of a lost vinyl collector's item, would be anything other than something that skirts the outer edges of Japanese and Eastern European folk and driving psych & roll pyrotechnics. Simply put, one listen to the 40-minute mind-expanding jam of the title track, and the listener will never fully recover from a journey that takes musical conventions, tosses them into an acid-drenched blender, and makes a delicious, thick, many-textured hallucinogenic soup. Makoto plays electric guitars, bouzouki, harp, and bowed peacock feather, all on the title track, and is accompanied by bandmates on guitars, recorders, drums, and synths. From Tibetan chanting to medieval chanting to drifting guitars and percussion to screaming, cascading rock & roll feedback, all harnessed — barely — by a euphoric sense of the ever-expanding sonic universe, La Nòvia carries listeners on a journey so far-fetched, so extreme, yet so compellingly listenable, they will be hard-pressed to believe what happened by the track's startling conclusion. From the Muzikas to Can to the Electric Prunes, Acid Mothers Temple carries the weight of sound and dimension into the territories at the edge of the sonic imagination. That they can do this is remarkable, that they can do this so musically is a damn miracle! The other standout of the three "selections" here is "Bon Voyage au LSD," a loose, droning, seemingly improvised work that becomes a guitar and percussion symphony along the same lines as Glenn Branca's, only less muddled by artsy pretension. Ultimately, La Nòvia is about rock & roll soul and vision, and the ability to create something new from a music that was said to be dead over 25 years ago. La Nòvia is, simply, "the good."
