The Communual Label
The Tower Recordings :
The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of.. (US,2005)***°
I still remember very well Tower Records two earliest recordings, “Furniture Music for Evening Shuttles” and “The fraternity of Moonwalkers” of sweet psych-folk mixed with experimentation, both apartment recordings. The last, more professional recorded release of stretched out improvisations for me was disappointing because I really liked the poetic side from previously. This new one is recorded in a New York church. Original, talented, members S.Freyer, PG Six, Helen Rush and MV now also have the participation of Tim Barnes, Samara Lubelski, Andre Vidaand Dean Roberts.
The sphere of improvisation recalls the best circumstances early Krautrock groups might have had. Is it the church environment, the combination of members I don’t know, that the improvised section or at least naturally evolving and ever evolving inspiration surely worked. It has created a nice structured go-for-it mix for the first two tracks, “Harvester” and “Empress Of I.91”. The track after that,"Giggy Garbage Gods (777)" starts with a Samara song, accompanied by a psychedelic improvising band. The following track, "Ibiza Within You" is much more a PG Six acoustic wandering, with some distorted fuzz travelling along with the acoustic part. "Forum" (more audio) is also partly an acoustic journey, but then with completely odd, actually deliberately partly not fitting electronic notes. Although starting on the edge of too-confusing, during the evolution in the playing this begins to make real sense. I am reminded of the Swedish psych-folk group Algärnas Trädgaard who did something similar with confusing harmonies back in the 70's. Last track, the song "Other Kinds Run" has more freaked out and psych-rocking and improvisation, which ends with more feedback of sounds, and some psychedelic let-it-run-for-Christmas electric guitars. Very good psychedelia !
An inspired session.
