While I'm doing this, in the background I'm listening to Oiseaux Tempete Tarab, and astonishingly enough this album should be heard, in fact their entire catalog is perfect in every sense of the word. (link below). It has a kind of blend of post-rock meets free-jazz meets psychedelia/krautrock/prog meets 70's Turkish psyche (a personal fave of mine). I have always loved the exotic sounds from the middle east, and the architecture as well, and recently through my migraines and other stuff have been on a post-rock, ambient, experimental and drone, and ethereal kick and so much of what I'm into as of now is in those realms, ironically WAAAY far off from what I used to be into, although then PE/death industrial/noise stuff is still an everyday listen but a lot more of my preferences have returned to original Detroit techno, IDM, and drum and bass ala Mick Harris and his many projects, a far cry from where I started but I am getting so much older and returning to my collection and unique finds as opposed to literally NEW stuff, especially metal (although I was neck deep into Aeturnus and Malignant Eternal this morning).
A lot of what I do review will be odd finds (a lot of this stuff is OOP and or rare now too), stuff that I dig out after 20 + years of collecting dust, and stuff that is experimental and bizarre all the way to people whose releases actually have value i.e. THEY mean something like Divide and Dissolve trying to dissolve racism or dark folk rock realms with Oldest Sea (incredible), or the spiritual realms of Edgar Kerval's Emme Ya (I greatly respect the man in not only his writings but also the energy that he puts into his work, if you can feel it- THAT is what it should be like, a primal energy that radiates).
I finally feel that I've gotten this down again....HOLY SHIT.....this OT album is straight up Embryo/Can/Thirsty Moon territory here, this stuff is seriously great shit! How have I not heard of them until more recent times? I guess I just wasn't looking, in fact I even stopped buying albums almost entirely over the last 3 - 5 years or so and the majority of those were old Death Metal demo tapes and obscure LPs, nothing much to hit on because some Finnish DM from the early 90's isn't anything to review, just to listen to. I mean, it's been done to death, had the graves dug up and robbed and attempts at reanimating those corpses to nothing new, we need to think and create forward but utilize what was amazing but in different contexts. Now I'm sounding like an art professor, I am obviously old and tired...
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