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Artist : Papir
Album : Papir III
Genre : Psychedelic Rock
Year : 2013
Label : Cargo Rec.
Cat# : n/a
Source : WEB/MP3
Bitrate : 320Kbps
Size : 112,1 MB
Runtime : 48:57 min
URL : http://papirband.com/
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01. Papir III.I 08:29
02. Papir III.II 10:00
03. Papir III.III 06:03
04. Papir III.IIII 08:01
05. Papir III.IIIII 16:24
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Papir is an instrumental trio from Copenhagen, Denmark.
They've created their own unique type
of semi-improvised psychedelic rock by mixing together new
and old, heavyness and atmosphere,
freedom and power. By now they have become masters of their
craft, and this, their third
album, earns them a spot in the absolute elite of the current
European psychedelic rock scene.
Everyone who has been lucky enough to catch the band live
know what an reverence-inducing
experience their energitic, adventurous explorations can be.
Papir are the perfect antidote to the
fashionable trends that continues to dominate the present,
but they don't go beyond the limited to
scope of the dominating indie-rock by merely reaching back to
the bygone golden era of pyschedelic
rock and electric jazz like so many others do û they
transcend it. Their music sounds vital
and fresh.
When Mojo writer Kieron Tyler visited Denmark's renowned SPOT
Festival in the summer of
2012 he was blown away by Papir's performance as an
experience that clearly stood out compared
to the rest of the bill (that included all of Scnadinavias
leading acts): It takes a lot to stand out
at SPOT...but Copenhagen's Papir are arresting. Their guitar,
bass and drums mesh powerfully
in an intense, jazz-inflected instrumental rock. Voyaging
through post-rock Tortoise terrain, it
nods towards Hawkwind's freak outs and employs liberal
dollops of wah-wah pedal. The pieces
- not songs - twist and turn like Dark Star Grateful Dead.
From these jumping off points, Papir
scurry off on their own path.
These guys are certainly on their own path and Papir III is
their most fully realized album to date,
it encompasses everything the band represents in a single
piece of heavy vinyl û from explosive,
guitar-solo driven peaks through motoric krautrock grooves to
peaceful and atmospheric
soundscapes. Like its predecessor the album was recorded
during a single intense week in a
small house in the Danish countryside, masterfully engineered
and produced by Jonas Munk
(Causa Sui), capturing the band in the midst of their
creative prime.
Past praise for Papir:
The heat the three generate can be, frankly, awesome...it
would be easy to haul out the usual
labelsùpost-rock, krautrock, space-rock, and psychedelic rock
among themùbut, in this case,
the trio's genre-transcending playing would make doing so
seem overly reductive. -Textura
There is plenty of enormous, and brilliantly executed,
psychedelic guitar rock which demands
frequent and repeated listening. For me, Papir are strong
contenders for discovery of the year,
and their album will likely receive regular block-bookings on
my CD player. I can hardly wait for
the follow-up! -Aural Innovations
El Paraiso Records is distributed by Cargo Records.
http://papirband.com/
http://www.elparaisorecords.com/releases/papir-III
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