Here & Now's debut album is a stunning, if slightly inconsistent effort; when it's good, it kicks serious donkey and ranks up there with the very best space/prog has to offer. You will be hard pushed to find better.
If you're familiar with "Floating Anarchy" (listed under Gong), then you'll have an idea of what you're in for, as this is "The Here and Now Band" referred to on that album. Here & Now mix punk, reggae influences and space rock into a sound reminiscent of Gong and Hawkwind, and it's easy to hear where the Ozric Tentacles got their sound from (the Ozrics regularly supported Here & Now in the early 1980s before their first album release).
The second album
Second album from the Swedish quartet of Nicklas Barker (Anekdoten),
Mathias Danielsson (Makajodama), Ronny Eriksson, and Tomas Eriksson.
Like their first album, I Wash My Soul In The Stream Of Infinity is pure psychedelic bliss.
The songs have their roots in jam sessions.
Overall there is a very German underground/krautrock feel.
These long jams vary in tempo - from the buzz saw opener "Fire! Fire!"
on through the blissed out Yatha Sidhra-like acoustic "Pagan Moonbeam".
Lethal guitar leads augmented by dollops of Mellotron and organ are the order of the day.
All served up with phat analogue sound.
If its possible to get high from a round aluminum disc this is the one that will do it for you.
Highly recommended to those you seek to explore the innermost nooks and crannies of their brain.
My Brother The Wind, a band consisting of Anekdoten’s Nicklas Barker, Makajodama’s Mathias Danielsson, and Magnolia’s Ronny Eriksson and Tomas Eriksson, made and brilliant achievement that would probably make even the worst pessimist believe in the impossible.
Our readers followers might know that we hade two separate interviews with the MBTW duo Nicklas Barker / Mathias Danielsson, where they have been telling us about the band’s background, its influences and other details.
These 4 guys have in succeeded harnessing the raw and wild energy of jamming and turn it into something that is going to be considered one of the high points of the genre in 2010.
Musically, hearing these six songs again and again is truly no passive experience. Certainly you will find in their performance a quality that forces you to listen carefully. At the other side, you can’t know what’s coming next,
Angel'in Heavy Syrup
Psychedelic/Space Rock
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Making Glistening Waves Within The Heavy Syrup January 1, 2012
Sounding
like the invocation of an ancient tribal rite within the realm of a
remote continent on a faraway planet requiring a universal translator to
communicate with its alien population, heavily modulated guitar
overlayers a heavily resonant bassline and propulsive tom-tom percussive
work roughly a minute into
