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releases... article extract... Moran Neumüller's songs here are
less politically invoked than much of previous political un-correctness. In That's
Very Easy he entwines a song in the style of early Caravan into a
beautifully crafted heavy-on-the-winds psychedelic fusion "... that's
just because you are stoned!" exclaims Moran in the refrain, before
taking us into a cosmic entwined flute number that reminds of Yatha Sidhra
(another cosmic fusion legend from the South of Germany) before letting-rip
in patent Out Of Focus fashion. The Way I Know Her is Moran's most
simple of songs, an antidote to the heady sounds that surround it. Those are
the instrumental slabs simply titled X and Y. These are like a
hybrid of classic early-70's Soft Machine, blended with the Krauty fusions of
bands like Wolfgang Dauner's Etcetera, Aera, Embryo, and the likes. If none
of that means anything to you, we're talking about that field of progressive
music inhabited by bands like the British Neon label acts: Raw Material or
Tonton Macoute, or maybe a little early Nucleus, and sometimes the Dutch
jazzy progressives Alquin or Solution. All of it full of creativity and a
furious succession of solos and complex diversions in the music. This is
breathtaking stuff. The album's sizzling finalé Spanish Lines will
soon lock its catchy melody into your brain, as it runs like a sizzling
surging Soft Machine riff given the power of classic Krautrock invention. A
stunning end to a stunning album. by Alan Freeman in Audion #44, page 21 (spring 2001) article/interview |
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