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Artist : Kadavar Aqua Nebula Oscillator
Album : White Ring
Genre : Rock
Year : 2014
Label : This Charming Man Records
Cat# : n/a
Source : WEB/MP3
Bitrate : 320Kbps
Size : 175,3 MB
Runtime : 76:36 min
URL : http://www.thischarmingmanrecords.com/index.php/download/
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01. Kadavar - Broken Wings 05:26
02. Kadavar - Flying Mountain 04:30
03. Kadavar - the Man I Shot 07:04
04. Kadavar & Aqua Nebula Oscillator - from the Flying 21:50
Dutchman
05. Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Purple Sage 03:41
06. Aqua Nebula Oscillator - Jungle Man 03:26
07. Aqua Nebula Oscillator - the Lovers and the Moon 08:17
08. Kadavar & Aqua Nebula Oscillator - to the White Ring 22:22
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Praise for Kadavar / Aqua Nebula Oscillator æs White Ring
from San FranciscoÆs aQuarius Records: Killer split /
collaboration between German retro heavy rockers Kadavar and
French psychedelic spacerock heavies Aqua Nebula Oscillator,
three new tracks from each band, and then two side long
epics, where both bands team up and play together.
Kadavar and Aqua Nebula Oscillator - White Ring
Kadavar kick down a sort of proto metal style heavy blues
rock, with bellbottom riffs, fat fuzzed out bass, and a
wailing vocalist, total seventies hard rocking riff-o-mania,
with some serious psych overtones. And one track that has
some killer start / stop dynamics, and one thatÆs a slithery
southern stoner jam, all swaggery and snarly, with a second
half that cranks the tempo into a frenzied bas heavy
freakout.
Aqua Nebula Oscillator counter with a sound thatÆs much more
noisy and abstract, space rocking and heavy, spaced out and
hypnotic, they do indulge in some retro riffing action, the
bass driven breakdown on the very seventies titled æPurple
SageÆ, replete with wild tangles of psych guitar shreddery,
or the weird percussion and deep dramatic vox on æJungle
ManÆ, which totally sounds like it could be a cover of some
old sixties groover, by the Animals maybe? ThereÆs even some
fake animal sounds, tiger roars and everything!
And then finally thereÆs their organ driven blooz ballad,
that sounds like a heavy psych version of the Moody Blues,
all drowsy and moody and dreamily dramatic, a little Pink
Floyd in the mix too.
Those tracks are all well and good, but itÆs the
collaborations that are the real reason to pick this up. The
first, epically titled æFrom The Flying DutchmanÆ, weaves a
spaced out sprawl of wild drum splatter, and heavily effected
guitar swirl. A dreamy droned out psychscape, that gradually
builds to dizzying squall, all flanged and phasered, but
still loose and free, never quite locking into a song proper,
at least until about 5 minutes in, when the song finally
coalesces into a serious guitar heavy chunk of kraut-psych
heaviness.
The drums (dual drumming), dense and driving, the drums too
doused in flanger, the song sprawling out endlessly,
constantly morphing from riff heavy crunch, to ethereal
psychedelic shimmer, to brooding murky drift, to chiming
almost jangly shimmer, and finally, to bass driven dirgey,
that finishes things off in a cloud of murky FX and slow
decaying chords. Awesome.
As is the title track, a similarly structured epic, but one
that launches immediately into a drum heavy stretch of fuzz
guitar psych, occasionally settling down into something
droney and tranced out, but for the most part never letting
up. The guitars swirling and howling, grinding and crunching,
multiple leads spiraling into wild tangles, the bass
throbbing, the drums pounding, total heavy psych bliss out
for sure.
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