POZI - Typing EP [LP](Prah/Redeye)
London based Pozi has a lot more fun with Post-Punk than you are supposed to. While the five songs on their promising EP do capture all the prerequisite dissatisfaction and doubt associated with this long-standing (but still hard to explain) branch of music, the songs here are largely tension release. The ESG-ish groove of the closer “Cover It Up” deserves its own 12”. The terse “Detainer Man” builds up from its 16-to-the-bar Delta 5 style back-and-forth into a tight and original shuffle. When they introduce the naive draw of the violin on “Free Day” (featuring the excellent lyrical shard “Rampages on ice,”) it makes Pozi and its content seem so light. Still, the seriousness is not lost. “Typing” drives hard and gives the trio a chance to compete with all those new noisy bands - but never lose their rubbery funk. Pozi is promising.
GERYCZ/POWERS/ROLIN - Lamplighter [LP/CD](American Dreams/Redeye)
To achieve a trance, one needs repetition of a short melody (preferably, in harmony with the body and mind) and some kind of drumming to aid in the “drift.” This Midwestern trio works their hardest to induce this trance on the American Primitive “Lamplighter,” and Jazz-based thunderous drumming on “Blink.” However, the Cloud Nothings drummer, guitarist Matthew Rolin and dulcimer player Jen Powers are also capable of inserting a refreshing bucolic melody “June” before going all out over the fifteen-minute drip-to-tidal wave conclusion (“Jars of Glass.”)
MARIO BATKOVIC - Introspectio [LP](Invada/Redeye)
Like Tim Hecker, Mario Batkovic is creating large mood-altering soundscapes with treated instruments and his surprisingly accordion. With the help of MXLX ( formerly of BEAK> on the title track) and the always reliable Colin Stetson (on the streams of sound on the lengthy “Quis Est Quis,” Batkovic hits all the high points of Modern Avant-Garde. It is on the vocal-based opener “Sanatio” (with Cantus Domus Choir) that you truly hear him reach beyond his possibilities.
PLUS [LP](Golden Pavilion/Light In The Attic)
Portuguese Jazz/Funk from the sunny Summer of ‘72. Future members of Placebo and Sam Suffy find several down n’dirty grooves and layer them with tight horn charts (“Gimme Some More Of That.”) While they are shooting for a standard MPB style (think Azimuth, ) they actually have more in common with the Funk bands of NYC (“What Did You Do.”)
THE OSSUARY - Oltretomba [LP](Supreme Chaos GER)
The Italian classic Metal merchants The Ossuary play grinding, melodic old-school Priest-meets-Dio Rock. Their best songs flicker up from the flames below (“Ratking,”) and push the Horror motif (“Kyrie Eleison.”) Biggest surprise: the Fields of The Nephilim-esque gallop/jangle of “Mourning Star.”
Well, another week, another list of several different styles and pursuits in music for you. Enjoy. Listen again. Share as you wish.
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