Rebel Powers - Not One Star Will Stand The Night
SKU
SAAH016
Another modern space-rock winner from Strange Attractors, who have grabbed the crown away from Kranky. "In 1998, Acid Mothers Temple went on a swing of the UK that sowed the seeds for a new cosmic unit, Rebel Powers. Kawabata Makoto, Cotton Casino and original Acid Mothers Temple drummer Koizumi Hajime met up with David Keenan, guitarist for Glasgow's Telstar Ponies and prominent scribe for London's premier new music mag The Wire, and holed up in South London's Moat Studios to let the heavenly river flow. The result is magic, but magic of an entirely different sort of conjuring than one would expect. Rebel Powers explore minimalist sound layering via two long, improvised tracks. Sustained guitar notes resonate and sarangi buzzes swirl while chiming waves of concrete percussive clatter and plaintive vocal wails slowly build momentum. Imagine the sort of dark themes and tolling guitar found on Popol Vuh's soundtrack to Nosferatu, oozing ever forward and serenaded by the hypnotic call of the mythical Siren. Engineered by Toby Robinson, a Stockhausen disciple who mixed Cans Landed album, recorded theinfamous Ash Ra Tempel/Timothy Leary Seven Up album, and produced music by Fushitsusha, Derek Bailey, Gong etc." [Strange Attractors Audio House]