by Thornswrath
SPV 99651 LP
P 2006 STEAMHAMMER
C 2006 STEAMHAMMER, A DIVISION OF SPV GMBH
DISTRIBUTED BY SPV GMBH. P.O. BOX 721147,
30531 HANNOVER, GERMANY,. MADE IN GERMANY.
LC 09002
This early live monster magnet jam long ago phased past its legendary status and has been eclipsing into obscurity to be polished off by remembrance ever since. It's a long slow start beginning on side 1 that eventually builds into a jam that just really takes the listener to strange distant shores from a tripped out heavy metal fantasy. An album no veteran of the psychic wars can do without. On Side Two there's four trax starting off with the blistering 25 then plunging into LONGHAIR and LORD 13 before wrapping up the album with a long live version of Spine Of God. This is good retro futurist stoner psychedelia that has got to be considered as being concurrent with Kyuss and the fuzzed out heavy metal stoner explosion. It seems the term psychedelic rock has come into its own, even if some of its heavier branches expand through doom into straight up heavy metal. This album was released in 2006 so it's now thirteen years old, and it does what it wants. In fact I hardly ever see it around, anymore. It only surfaced into my collection because I was thumbing through my mogwai and mono albums when I stumbled across it, pulled it out, and placed it on the platter for a spin and a listen. It's this sort of long extended improvisational heavy stoner post psychedelic jam on side one that makes me think I'd like to start a new pile of this sort of music with my records. Now that I've categorized my album collection with punk, hip-hop, instrumental, metal, and everything else I could see breaking it up into even finer distinctions.
It reminds me of that Praxis album I recently discovered. Sure I was drawn into the Praxis vortex back when their first album Transmuation dropped, I think it was Kyle McBride who may have told me about them, but in any case I got that CD and was introduced to the strange futuristic soundscapes of the AXIOM label and bands like Death Cube K further mapping out the interdimensional territories of this musical phenomenon. In any case it wasn't long ago that I stumbled upon a Praxis album I never even knew about, and it was for twelve bucks on vinyl in the used bins at Graywhale.
PRAXIS PROFANATION
So I found the above PRAXIS album in the used bins over at the University Graywhale { R I P } for something like $12 ~ so I sprung for it ~ and it's a damn good thing cuz this record consists of not only the multi-tentacular talents of Billy Lasswell, Buckethead, and Brain, but a multiplicity of post-hip hop artistry including but not limited to Rammellzee, Hawkman, Dr. Israel, Grandmixer DXT, Iggy Pop, Killah Priest, Bernie Worrell, Mike Patton, Serj Tankian, Future Prophecies, and other interesting practitioners of the neo-funk. Across 2 LPs this record most defintely delivers the goods, supplying an enormous spectrum of collaborative styles.
I was also lucky to have scored this recent re-issue of FUNKADELIC's famous concert live at Meadowbrook, Rochester Michigan on 12 September, 1971. Little did I know what I was in for despite being familiar with a good portion of the troposphere surrounding the expansive territory the members of this band have traversed across their travels beyond the sonic realm. This is an amazing capture of the band in their prime and really has to be listened to in order to be believed. Trust me on this one, and if you're already familiar with this legendary concert then you already know why it's worth having in one's collection. These guys just gel together and take their jamming to another level.
