The
cool instrumental band Temple of the Smoke from Belgrade is out with their
first real release on the new Greek label Cosmic Eye. When I was playing gigs
in the Balkans, we stayed at the apartment of one of these guys and they were
super cool people. I really liked their first CD-R and it has so many different
styles and the band maintain that on this record with nearly every song being
unique and quite eclectic. There are 7 song in total. Kingdom of Apples starts
things slowly and spacey with some floating synths, drums and bass and is a
beautiful peaceful track that slowly builds up and gets really psyched out at
the end. Moth of Time has acoustic guitars and a sort of spacey dreamy voice as
the track floats and glides. Then you get quite a shock when the almost DOOM
like guitars kick in. They return to the dream theme but then get really
freaked out and noisy at the end. Starfall is a really short but intense track
that feels like an intro to a dramatic scene in a movie! Out, into the Crimson
Night starts with a synthesizer loop and layer that drives the piece at the
beginning. All of the sudden it stops and a deep bass line kicks in as do the
drums. This track is the only song on the record with a real guitar solo break
and like rock and roll part. Every track on the record is quite unique in this
way. Time to flip the record over now.
Street of Shifting Signs stars off
side B with a fast tempo track with some cool bass lines but it is lead by a
cool synthesizer solo as it slowly builds up. It later changes to a dub reggae
part section including melodica and vocoder.
But wait, it ain’t over yet.. It really rocks out at the end and the
lead synthesizer takes over once more. Amazing track. Beyond the wall of
Sleep features Jon Mack Marie on vocal.
It starts with some sound samples and the dreamy voice and maintains this
beautiful melodic dream like state. Temple of the Smoke ends this record and on
the back cover for the record it has some words to go along with the track.
Powerful lyrics. Just like the powerful words on the back of the record, it
starts dark and mysterious as well. I very cool mid-eastern guitar line is
played as well as the track builds and spaces out.
It repeats a similar theme over
and over but it gets much heavier towards the end. Great record.
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