"The first song I heard off Disembodied was the song Embalmed and I was throughly impressed. This and its precursor Dreamatorium as well as the new CD Tunnel are quite frankly some of the best CDS out there. The freaky sounding guitar is brought to you courtesy of guitar god Buckethead and bass is provieded by the one and only Bill Laswell. Both instruments float about like upset ghosts, and all the noises that scared you as a kid are back to haunt you again. Just by looking at the album cover art you know what to expect. If death had a soundtrack then this would be it."
Weird...
Christopher Peters | Monrovia, CA | 04/15/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is not quite industrial, not quite ambient, but rather experimental. This albums (and its precursor, Dreamatorium) seem to exist for the purpose of proving that noise can be an effective rythmic tool. Some of the "songs" have nothing other than mechanical churning providing the rythmic foundation, upon which layers of noise are added. Occasionally Bucketheads guitar surfaces with a spooky yet somewhat jazzy tone. Hanging Gallow's has some of the best of Bucketheads more relaxed electric guitar work. Totally worth the money if you are into pushing the boundaries of what is accepted as music. Interesting, absorbing, fascinating and hypnotic..."
Excellent
commiesmasher | cleveland | 05/13/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I purchased this not really knowing what to expect, since all Buckethead's projects differ greatly, and I have to say I'm impressed. There's not a whole lot to be said, this cd is about 40-50 minutes long, has only guitar and bass, and is five tracks long. Most of this is a lot of ambient noise, or creepy guitar sounds played for brief amounts of time. The guitar and bass are almost indecipherable under all the effects, but the droning creates kind of an eerie, yet relaxing feel. In fact, there's a good chance you'll fall asleep listening to this, the reason I can appreciate this is because me and my friends do a lot of recordings just like this one for fun. The most important thing is that Buck and Bill truly enjoy the music they do, such as this record. They put a lot of creativity into it, and pretty much whatever is on thier minds will show up in their work. Pure Imagination, (which Buck covers, coincidentally).So check this out, I'm sure you will enjoy it to some degree."
Glory,glory,halleluhjah!!!!
crown of indica | saint paul,mn,usa | 01/12/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"What a true treasure we all have found in buckethead and bill laswell's doings!who would've thought that what george clinton began so many years ago would eventually mutate into somthing so drastically voided and tragically hip?!I absoultely love putting this in my xbox or ps 1 and looking at the trippy visuals on it,and the first cube cd even has a cd extra with some dated-but still cool -visual "buisiness" for track 1.For a real hallucinatory smorgasborg buy both these cd's and splice them together onto one disc using your pc.get the dvd "begotten" along with these and play the 2 cd's while the movie is playing.It's like the alice in wonderland/dark side of the moon thing x10!!!my only gripe is that the cd's are both only about 40 minutes long each,but I gave them both 5 stars so you know that's not a problem what-so-ever!If the times are a problem for you(maybe you need like 15 hours of atmosphereric music for a long "trip")I can't say enough about steve roach's "mystic chords and sacred spaces",buckethead's"colma"and"electric tears",shakuhachi flute for meditation,robert rich "stalker",bill townsend "celestial voyage",terry riley"in c",aphex twin"ambient collection",ravi shankar,some brian eno(hard to tell the truly ambient ones though.music for airports is good),steven molpern "spectrum",micheal stearns "sacred sites",angelo badalamenti's scores for "the straight story" "the elephant man" and "the beach",etc,etc,etc.if you like chillin' out do yourself the favor of getting this opus ode to buckethead's arch nemisis-the mighty death cube k world devourer!"