Cosmic Fall- Back where the Fire Flows (Clostridium)

 

These cool guys from Berlin opened for ØSC (Øresund Space Collective) some years ago and they were a great band. Daniel, the drummer sent me the new CD, their first in 5 years.  It is also out in vinyl on Clostridium.  Anyway, it features 5 tracks. The opening number is one of my faves on the album, Lucid Skies above Mars and just floats and glides and has wonderful delay guitars. Love the way they are mixed. Magma Rising kicks things into high stoner rock action and is a great track. Under the influence of Gravity, starts noisy and strange and then a sort of groove gets going with a almost funky like guitar. Very different.  Chant of the Lizards is another really lovely laid back one with super nice guitars.  Drive the Kraut, is a 10min long journey with this more Neu like drive to start but then they drift in and out of this til they find their own way..  A great return album. Will be in my top 20 for sure.. Been playing it a lot.. Thanks guys..

http://cosmicfall.de

http://www.clostridiumrecords.de/ 

Sula Bassana/Skyjoggers Split LP (Sulatron st2405)

Sula is one of the major artists in Europe for psychedelic rock music and this live album (All songs recorded live at Dazed & Spaced Festival, Bar 227 Hamburg, in April 2024), features his new 4 piece band, to play music from his solo albums and create new music.  Skyjoggers are a trio from Finland and I had never heard of them before but if you look at their bandcamp page, they have a lot of music out!!!  Anyway, they start off the LP with a very intense high energy psychedelic rock trip out called Step One: Breathe, Step Two: Levitate… This track reminds me a lot of another Tampere band, Void Transmission.. Lightrunner, keeps the intensity high and the vocalist is quite mad at times and uses these crazy delays.. For Outer Space, they bring the energy down and start off a bit bluesy with some nice spacey guitar. A great change from the others but it builds up to an almost doomy end.  Cool..

Side B features two tracks one from Sula´s latest solo album and then a cosmic freakout jam.  A very nice version of We Will Make It, very space at times and solid groove but then builds up to a heavy ending. Come with Me, is a jam and starts off with spoken word and Sula playing a sort of gypsy music like theme on the organ before we head off into heavy space out territory, ala Electric Moon but with more spacey parts and dynamics.. Great stuff..

https://skyjoggers.bandcamp.com

https://sulabassana.bandcamp.com

Human Teorema- Le Premier Soleil De Jan Calet (Sulatron st2404)

This an instrumental band from France. The quartet have been playing since 2012 and have released several Eps, none of which I have heard.  This three track album traces the journey, explorations, and visions of Jan Calet, a professor of ancient civilizations in Rome in the early 90s, as he traverses through the ages and abysses until his renewal and starts off with Onirico starts off very spacey with a nice keyboard theme. The guitar line, drums and bass enter but the music is very spacey with nice synths whoosing about in the background. This track slowly builds up in intensity and leads into Studiis, a 15min track. It starts with some mellotron and this is a long much more proggy, symphonic track. Spedizione is all of side B and takes 23mins of your life to listen to but it is worth it. Starts with some nice synths sequences before the main guitar riff kicks in and off we go………. Enjoy the trip.. What a great record.. Wow… Loved it…

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