(Psychedelic/Space Rock) Drahk Von Trip - Heart & Conseqence - 2005, MP3, 320 kbps

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Drahk Von Trip biography
DRAHK VON TRIP is a six piece band from Malmö, Sweden, performing progressive psychedelic acid rock. This is strongly influenced by 70's prog and spacerock with female vocals, featuring ethnic sounds, blended with expressive lyrics. The music and lyrics create various moods and a suggestive feeling, often built up through a soft and floating shape into an intensely wild and chaotic state.
The process of creating the music together starts with free form jams.
Three of the members, Göran, Mats and Ralph, have played together for around ten years in a band occasionally named "Mr. G", dealing a lot with improvisations and also working as a band supporting and performing together with improvised theater and happenings. The band felt a need of widening the musical horizon and a decision was made to find new musical soul mates.
After a while Twodox showed up and joined the band with his strange kind of instruments as playing, later on also the guitarist Micke popped up with some spacy, jazzy and trippy approach. Finally Susanne joined with her violin, flutes and dark mysterious vocals. This together with Görans' fluid and adventured drumming, Mats' spacey guitar melodies and aggressive tone, Ralph with the singing bass and sense of structural grooves formed DRAHK VON TRIP as it is today. Sometimes individually created themes, melodies and songs are blended in to the process so called 'Collective Spontaneous Real-time Composing'.
After a lot of jamming and gigs the band recorded the promo EP "IS US" in September 2004, available in two different versions. The Demo brought a lot of attention to progressive radio stations, magazines and internet sites. And then 2005 the first full length studio album "Heart & Consequence" was released - 10 songs which are hard to categorize. A folky, spacy, psych and symphonic blend using a diversity of instruments. DRAHK VON TRIP has also recorded the mysterious trip called "Major Breeze" for a selfreleased limited edition. It features two long jams (67 minutes!) from the rehearsal room in May 2006.
IMO
Встречайте современную утяжеленную психоделию, родом из 60-х. Очевидная ассоциация - музыка Jefferson Airplane (женский вокал очень похож на Grace Slick) в лучшие годы, исполненная Hawkwind.
Подход к записи альбома тоже как в конце 60-х. Никаких имен - фамилий, только клички. На диске указано, что диск записали за 2 дня, я так понимаю, как джем-сешн.

Review by Rivertree
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Psych/Space Team & Band Submissions
4 stars Stop the mainstream now - performing with heart and consequence ...
Great debut of this collective which celebrates 'spontaneous real-time composing' for what also several other swedish bands are known. Just to mention KAABEL or ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE (OSC) for example. So the songs are often the result of endless jams, just the essence of them, 10 songs which are stylistically hard to categorize. The psychedelic element is dominant, the band acts with much variety and links to the 70s (prog) rock. Additionally théy use a lot of effects and native instruments. Vocals are accent free and so you're sometimes willing to suppose the band is from the States and not from Sweden.
The album starts with birds' twittering and Didjeridoo. One of a kind, a brave opener, has very accessible melodies and is also complex indeed - tricky and eclectic with a dark atmosphere ('you're eating my mind'). Susanne's vocals are top-notch and serve a cosy touch but can also be harsh when the song explodes with heavy guitars and drums. This is excellent song writing (if they ever did so in a classical way but I don't think it's spontaneous), one of my favourites. Autumn is initiated by the african Udu which sounds like a tabla. The band is playing similar to JEFFERSON AIRPLANE with speed variations, melancholic with wonderful vocals once again. The following two songs are somewhat ANEKDOTEN like, very powerful performed whereas Ode to a goddess is a perfect mix of Psychedelic pure and heavy Rock. The song ends suddenly and it sounds like even Suzanne had been surprised about that. Long distance call shines with a groovy rhythm, great guitar work and an eastern european polka interlude.
'This is a man's world' the main refrain is revealing with Gahn. Yet another very dynamic and heavy killer song. Daddy's dead mysterious, clutterlng, weird with Digeridoo once again and R.A.M.M first of all convinces because of Göran's excellent drum work. In a world of trouble they find their way with safety, similar to the opener exellently arranged and musically perfect. As for a highlight you can listen to simultaneous vocals and guitar playing with a native american atmosphere.
This album contains no weak song which is not quite natural. Highly recommended - one of the best of the year 2005 I could listen to.

- Goran / drums & percussion
- Susanne / lead vocals, violin, flutes
- Mats / rhythm, lead & 12 string guitar, backing vocals
- Ralph / bass
- Twodox / Yidaki, Didjeribone, vintage synthesizers, Udu, Tambura, percussion
- Micke / rhythm, lead, space & glissando guitars
Produced by Drahk von Trip and Batti
Recorded live the 5th and 6th of March 2005 at Gula Studion, Malmo, Sweden.
Recorded by Marco Manieri and Batti
Mixed by Batti
Mastering: Ola Strandh
Cover layout: Goran and Miranda
Colour photo: Peter Jers