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Black Taj
Black Taj
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Back to the Bridges
2. Cinema Style
3. Clover
4. Self Soothing
5. Roots
6. Octastone
7. Beyonder
8. Red Jr.
9. Woke Up Tired

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All Artists: Black Taj
Title: Black Taj
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Amish Records
Release Date: 10/24/2005
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 616892676928

Synopsis

Album Description

Black Taj's debut album re-introduces the guitar work of Idyll Swords-band mates Dave Brylawski (formerly of Polvo) and Grant Tennille, as well as the rhythmically punctuated bass playing of Steve Popson (also formerly of Polvo). The record was recorded with various sets of ears behind the board, including Ash Bowie (Polvo / Libraness) and SuperQuanic Studio builder and Cherry Valence member Brian Quast. While the musicians in Black Taj have previously explored various permutations of rock--Eastern-inflected Folk, Psychedelic, Punk, 90s Angularity--Black Taj returns its sound to Rock's center. With the solid drum work of Tom Atherton, Black Taj's riffage gestures towards the expansive and cone-rattling string sorcery of the sixties and seventies. 9 tracks. Amish Records. 2008.

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CD Reviews

When Did This Come Together?

Brandon Buckner | Asheville, NC United States | 11/15/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I was in Reckless Records in Chicago and found this in the Polvo section-thinking someone slipped it in by mistake. That is until I read the band and engineers' names and recognized a couple as former guitarists and bassist for Polvo. I wasn't as into the Idyll Swords and Libraness had some nice pieces in it, but dang it if this isn't the closest I can come to hearing Polvo once again. This album has some nice tunings and guitar work - a-la Led Zeppelin - very '70's-ish (like the last 'Shapes' Polvo album). Too bad that this album slipped by and didn't get any better publicity.. shame on Amish Records and/or the band's publicist for that.[...]."

Classic rock in a really GOOD way

A. Davis | Berkshires | 01/02/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"So, what if some "math rock" (whatever) stars from the Chapel Hill glory days messed around in a sort of classic rock idiom, but it didn't come off as contrived, ironic, or self-conscious, but rather like some honest-to-god lost masterpiece from the 70s, equal to Houses of the Holy at least, played with heart and vigor by excellent musicians who are having a really good time? What if modern, forward-looking musicians would get that direct link to the late 60s, channeling the same stuff that made Hendrix Hendrix, not being copycats, producing an album that is fresh and exciting? What if there was too much good stuff going on to pigeonhole it, but you wanted to hear the whole album over and over? Oh, wait...that's pretty much what happened here."