I
have been waiting for years for this new record to come out. It was recorded
nearly completely live in the studio on two different dates in 2013 and then
they spent the next years doing some studio wizardry and a few overdubs. The CD
is made up of five long tracks spread over 67mins. Two of the original members
of the band (the leader Boris) and long time bassoon player, Frol but all the
rest are new players with Boris and Ness on vocals. The music has that feel of
the early albums and you slowly get totally sucked into it.. Kommuna-Ra starts
things off with a wolf like howl but the programmed drums and sounds kick in as
the hand drumming is layered on and the hypnotic vocals and then the bass line
starts to drive the track. The keyboard line that is quite common in some OL
tracks precedes the vocal of Boris. He wrote the lyrics but the female vocal singing
is mostly improvised. Very hypnotic. I love that sound when Frol kicks in with
the bassoon. Dyatly (Woodpeckers) is the longest track at 17½ mins. His tracks
starts off with most vocal improvs and percussion and drums before the bass
line joins in and then some guitar. It slowly builds and you get transported
away into the OL world as more layers of sounds come and go as do the vocals.
Bela Dama begins with a harp like instrument and some layers of synths and
sounds and then the vocal comes as the drum (kick) and then the rest of the
programmed drums as you slowly glide like on a sea of sound. Very dreamy and
trippy this track but also one of the more uptempo ones. Just Wind features a
real drum kit and has some trippy manipulated voices and sounds at the
beginning before the track heads into the same territory as the previous tracks
but is more electronic in nature. Veni, Vidi, Vici is a short 4 min track that
ends the CD as if you have been dreaming the whole time you heard the record… I
have always loved the music of this band and this is going back to more of
their early sounds but still a lot of programming on some of the songs and
maybe a bit too much of the same after a while by the time you get to track 4.
Still… a cool return.
Scott,
ReplyDeleteDespite having searched quite extensively on the limited information available on Ole Lukkoye, I have not been able to find much else similar to them, particularly to Dyatly, Kommuna Ra, and Just Wind (also Uloog Hem and a few others). Are you aware of anything similar? The Dyatly album has become one of my favorites and most listened to EPs.
I do also listen to Tatyana Kalmykova (through whom I learned of Dyatly after hearing her on Beats Antique's Three Sisters).
DeleteOle Lukkøye are a quite unique band. Some of the bands from Hungary, like Korai Öröm, Uzgin Uver, etc.. have this sort of vibe...
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