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July 18 2004 CDr (2004)
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AQUARIUS RECORDS
From list No. 254
EXPO '70 "July 18, 2004" (Kill Shaman) cd-r
Another gorgeous slab of spaced out krautrocky ambience from Expo' 70, this one a live, completely improvised performance back in 2004, with the band expanded to a trio. And if folks' reaction to the first three Expo 70's releases is anything to go by, then these will be flying out of here in no time as well.
For those yet to discover the sublime joys of Expo '70, these guys (usually just one guy, Justin Wright) traffic in glistening dreamlike kosmiche drift. A krautrock that is less about propulsion and rhythm and more about texture and ambience, think Ash Ra Tempel, AR & The Machines, Tangerine Dream, Eno, Popol Vuh. Guitars aren't strummed and picked, they are sort of allowed to unwind, long glistening strands of reverberating buzz unfurl and float into the hazy ether. Synthesizers unleash a similarly disembodied sonic vibe, soft clouds of fuzzy whir and distant chordal warmth. Very much the sonic equivalent to drifting down a warm summer stream, on your back, watching the clouds drift by, the trees on the shore shimmer and sway. Or maybe more accurately, floating in the vacuum of space, everything weightless, untethered and drifting lazily through the inky blackness. The light of stars and suns bends and twists, slowly cycling through the visible spectrum, disobeying all laws of physics, wrapping you in a thick swirl of sonic brilliance. This music has to be the work of some immortal group of dronelords, sitting in their multidimensional fortress, atop some mysterious lost mountain, who in their infinite wisdom, allow their dreamlike drones and angelic ambience to fall from the sky and settle over us like a light dusting of snow...
MY RECORD COLLECTION
Welcome to the wonderful world of Expo '70, where everything sounds quite familiar, but isn't always quite what it seems. The first thing that popped up in my brain when I first put this live album on (besides trippin' balls) was that it felt quite similar to the psychedelic soundscapes of The Taj-Mahal Travellers; long drawn out pieces based in drone with constantly manipulated noises. The Double Leopards did something quite similar before him, but I believe Expo '70 has mastered this type of music. I for example has odd sounds surfacing sporadically throughout as a gloomy, fuzzy drone carries the piece way out into the stratosphere. II is quite similar except that it is drenched in delay and slightly creepier with it's shimmering background drone. III is a much shorter piece with tons of scraping and buzzing alien sounds that could give Birchville Cat Motel a run for his money. This is available both as part of a rare box set and by itself.
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TAROT READING / SOLAR DRIFTING 7"
SONIC MESSENGER CD
INFINATE MACROCOSM bonus CD
GALAXY OF MYSTICISM CDr
PSYCHOSIS LP
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