This is the
2nd album by Kanoi from Austria.
It is primarily the brainchild of Benjamin Kant Schieder. It comes in
two different versions, a black vinyl and a die hard purple vinyl with a
digipack CD-R and a ten page colour booklet with all the lyrics and some nice
words. A very cool package. Some of this
album was recorded live. The CD starts off with Naceo II, a 8 min long track
that just gets more and more spacey. The band go for a pretty raw, low if psych
sound. Buru Haze is a really slow, stoney
track with some cool guitar. IT sorts of drifts into the next track called the
Golden Country which is a slow growing droney piece with a very spacey synth.
Windchild is a beautiful floating ballad with a slowly drifting synth and
acoustic guitar. Later in the track an additional lead electric guitar is
added. Song of Distance starts straight off with a guitar solo and then fades
down into a more mellow floating section with some nice laid back singing and
playing. Side B starts off with By the Sunrise, an acoustic track with the
sound of birds and running water as the accompaniment. Quokka sounds like it was a jam but it is
quite short and still has that spacey drifting synth in the background, like on
many of the tracks. It fades out and into the last long track called A new
Beginning and the Sprawling Sky. A heavy guitar riff opens the track but this
goes direct into an acoustic guitar and lead organ that takes the lead for a
bit as the guitar solo slowly builds up before the vocals kick in. Benjamin takes a long guitar solo in the
middle and then the main theme returns, then in fades down and comes back with
a long drawn out solo til the end of the record. Pretty nice music with a
psychedelic spacey touch…. Fans of Lamp
of the Universe will like this.
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