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Vokokesh - 'The Tenth Corner' (Strange Attractors) 4 1/2 st

Mike Reed | USA | 12/30/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"'Tenth Corner' is like the third Vokokesh CD I have purchased. Like the other two discs, I love what I hear from this Wisconsin space rock / Avant Garde band. Tracks I dug the most were the awesome sounding fifteen-minute "Love Theme From El Topo", the trippy "Eddie's Hallucination" and the release's other 15-min. epic "The Holy Mountain". Line-up: Richard Franecki-guitar, bass & digital drums, Doug Pearson-synthesizer, John Helwig-bass & guitar and John Schober-percussion. Without a doubt, should do plenty for fans of early Ash Ra Tempel, Agitation Free, vintage Pink Floyd, Neu!, Gila, the list goes on. Recommended listening."

Swirl Synth and that Buzzy Guitar

SystemStructure | town, WA United States | 06/19/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Vocokesh. Since no one else has writ a review of this yet, I suppose it's up to me to do so.



Well, for starters it's not pop music. It's so unpop it's further away from pop than even metal is. What it is, is dark, hovering space rock from another dimension of time and space. Essentially, the album title "10th corner" is apt and seems to conjure images of multiple levels of reality, quantum physics or parallel universes. Needless to say, it's some intense stuff.



That would have to be the active word here, "intense." It's like hippie rock that slid into some side portal and then fell out in a universe with different laws of physics. It's swirling, spacious and vibey rock that jams on for quite awhile. You might have never heard anything like Vocokesh. They are true originals.



You might like this band if you like :

Cul de Sac

Mogwai

Surface of Eceyon

Merzbow

Nine Inch Nails

Santana"