Kinski/Paik/Surface of Eceyon - Crickets and Fireflies
(Music Fellowship)
The next release in Music Fellowship's split CD series gathers together several of the leading lights of psychedelic instrumental music for a predominantly successful foray into the ravages of the grey matter in between your ears.
Seattle-based Kinski's cumbersomely titled "Keep Clear of Me, I Am Maneuvering With Difficulty" is the perfect soundtrack for your next dip into the sensory deprivation tank as the collection of bloops, blurps, and bleeps sounds like either a couple of mating dolphins or the soundtrack to "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea." It would also be perfect background music if someone decided to remake "Fantastic Voyage," as the various chimes and tinklings recall those red and white blood cells glistening in the blood stream. Unfortunately, about halfway through, an over reliance on distortion pedals renders the second half of the song a sonic headache. Maybe the song is constructed backwards: it should give us the headache first and then mellow out and send our intrepid explorers through the amniotic fluid to excise the cause of our discomfort at the end.
With "Spanish Holiday," Detroit's Paik admirably demonstrate they are the perfect band to provide the next Ennio Morricone film soundtrack. If you are a fan of the lush, romantic solos liberally peppered throughout Morricone's western collaborations with Sergio Leone, you will enjoy this as much as I did. By song's end, guitarist Robert Smith assumes the persona of his namesake and there is an aura of Disintegration-era Cure hanging in the purple haze, although, at 14 minutes, it's a few minutes too repetitive and long. Their other contribution, "Eva" is another ominous, psychedelic soundtrack piece, like a heavier Stars of the Lid.
The album ends with "Concert of Stars" by Surface of Eceyon, which is the guys from Landing banded together with a couple of friends, including Yume Bitsu's Adam Forkner. This is a lighter, mellower departure from the sound on last year's Strange Attractors Audio House debut, The King Beneath The Mountain, which will probably appeal more to Landing than Yume Bitsu fans. It's the most ambient of the tracks herein, Eno-esque if you will, and will certainly satisfy the jonesing of any Windy & Carl, Labradford, Landing, and Stars of the Lid aficionados. Perfect for your next trip at, I mean, to the local planetarium to gaze upon the majesty of the universe.
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