Outer Music Diary

Yatha Sidra - A Meditation Mass - Germany 1973

Dining on quarks and stratospheric propulsion is an esoterically breathtaking journeymaking which Yatha Sidra attribute to reaching certain innermost realms. Nothing could be further from the proof in putting one within, this trip exacts its penchant for airiness and solidity throughout. Many deem this one to be of the spaced-out ilk, yet I am not akin to the those realms espoused, sensing that it shackles one to the earth effusively. Moving oceans.. slowly whooshing about nearby. Snacking on mountainpeaks with ease. Allowing a true symbiosis, of “head music” and “feel-it-in-your-body” vibrations, a worthy and well-vested corroboration with it’s reputation may just be an out-of-body inner-music experience. This is timeless material. Pensive *and* propulsive, a nice admixture. Mass? Not so much. Religious experience? Maybe, depends on yer state. Dumbfounding clarity and abundance? Yes, indubitably.

Outcome:

A full-of-human-soul-stirring foray into sound and the fashion in which music can touch the spirit, instrumentally. This is very lyrical and speaks in volumes for those with the hears to read it.

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::13/15 - Classic of the Millennial Krautrock Continuum::

I return while MM & TM take a summer sojourn…

DEL JONES’ POSITIVE VIBES - Court Is Closed - USA 1972

Wholly wooly jaywhozhefatfunkprowess! This monster slab should be playing in any and every house-n-haus across the world’s whorls for a few weeks straight. Nothing seems to be able to touch the infinite layers of sheer power and insouciance that this recording provides. In many senses, this is the truly hopping end of the spectrum that has to be called simply, and unequivocally, incomparable. Even I, who slather usually with a poised dagger for a tongue when it comes to these things of writ and gush.. well, I am at a loss to say more than the most banal remarks along the lines of: this album, in toto, jams hard and fast throughout, maintaining a cheerful outlook and forward-thinking slant alongside tracks that barrel along and pummel every head-bopping, toe-tapping, body-movin’, and the cerebral “I can’t believe this is happening..” senses you got. Must needs hear the revered psych mix of this! The soul version is something to sop up nice and tight up on your hot biscuits like gravy. Also, not only does this thing cook like Emeril on steroids, live on Iron Chef with 5 arms, there is a rocking element that cannot be overlooked, structure, indescribable heft, intelligence and infectiousness are the main salient traits of this magnificently beating and heaving with hot-breathing beast.

Outcome:

A fookin’ M-U-S-T for everyone!
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::13/15 - Stone-Cold Classic::