Brown Spirits is a new Australian
duo featuring Tom Wold (everything except percussion) and Agostino Soldati
(drums and percussion). The recordings are quite low fi (most noticeably the
drums- very thin and dry sound) and all recorded on a Tascam portastudio. The album features 9 tracks of spaced out
instrumental music, some of which is quite funky! Lysergic Library starts things off with a mid
paced drum and slowly some guitar and organ are layered in and then the bass
line. The guitar is mostly making sounds and no chords or riffs until the solo.
Quite a laid back vide to the music despite the quick tempo of the drums. The
end section there is some cool guitar stuff. Kaiser-Panorama follows with two
layers of guitar, one psychy, the other sort of a skank or funky riff. Drums
and bass are quite repetitive throughout the track. Flying and Falling starts
with some noisy guitar action. Later the drums come in and as well as a
throbbing bass and a guitar solo of sorts and then it fades out. That River
ain’t for Swimming ends side A. This track has a bass line that sort of leads
the track, mixed a bit more to the front and a bit more grooving with the
drums. Guitar is just noodling over the
top with some nice use of delay. Side B
starts with 4 tracks all under 4mins. Xan in Red starts with bass, drums and an
organ solo. Quite a relaxed vibe. Back to Atoms is quite funky with two layers
of guitar (one quite heavy) and a fast rhythm. The solo was quite cool on this
track. Wish they had stretched this one out. Another Vintage Phase (See video below) starts with
some keyboards that fade out and then the drums and a totally different synth
with a dark feeling (also to the bass) follows. Precursor is a short track of
less than 2 mins with some guitar feedback, over the steady bass and drum
groove. Optokinetic Response is the longest track on the LP at 9mins and starts
off with kraut like feeling with organ and a repeated guitar line before the
power chord riff kicks in and out as they come back to the organ and main
guitar riff. This track has the best guitar work on it and later a long spaced out organ solo.
I
feel this band really needs a bass player to complete the project and allow
them to explore musically a bit more and not be limited by not having it. Some
great stuff on this record though.
No comments:
Post a Comment