Djam Karet
– The Trip (Djam Karet’s
HC Productions)
The American instrumental five-piece, Djam Karet,
have been garnering a cult following since their formation back in 1984. “The
Trip” is their sixteenth release though just their second in eight years, and
they’ve incisively sidestepped a need for commercial success by making it a
single 47 minute track.
“The Trip” shows that Djam Karet still hold a torch
for their 1970’s forefathers – namely England’s space-prog rockers, King
Crimson or Pink Floyd and Germany’s electronically inclined Cluster, Tangerine
Dream and Harmonia - and continue to mine cannabinoid landscapes for strange
and mysterious leads.
They have augmented the classic prog line-up of
guitar, bass, drums and synths with digital and analogue effects, samples,
fielding recordings, flute and bouzouki. Their craft is to fuel the
imagination, to transport the listener through time, space and esoteric places,
where the insular flight paths journey from electro-laced fields, through skies
of everlasting radio waves, touch down briefly for alien, futuristic and
windswept fantasies, and occasional earthbound stoner rock-outs.
So load your pipe, stick your headphones on, and head
out into the intergalactic airwaves.
Willsk
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