I keep saying it more and more and records like this back me
up, and I will say it again, Australia must have a perfect alignment of the
stars, the earth and the moon, as the amount of awesome psychedelic music
coming from down under at the moment is mind blowing.
So here we have Sonic Dhoom, a new two track single from
Melbourne’s The Black Heart Death Cult. I guess this is a taste of what to
expect from their second album Sonic Mantras that will be released later this
year.
Side A’s song Sonic Dhoom is big, glowing and melts away the
deeper you feel yourself being pulled into the next four minutes of finally
crafted 60’s psychedelia. Whilst floating in a trippy dreamlike state, the
wonderful sitar work throughout elevates you to a Middle Eastern time within
another time guided by the trance inducing vocal lines. Definitely a song to
lie back and lose yourself in.
It’s Getting Heavy on the reverse slowly lifts you with its
mix of keyboards that drift in, pick you up and elevate you with a song that
sounds heavenly. By heavenly I mean with its choir like vocals through the
chorus, making the listener imagine bright white skies and some sort of bright
light in the distance that is beckoning you towards it. I can imagine this
being their antidote to a previous 20 minute jam they have just fuzzed out
live.
Salty Dog Records released a run of 150 blue/yellow splatter
7”’s that look stunning, but as quick as they appeared, they disappeared. If
you keep a look out there may be another press. Bandcamp is your saviour
though, so you know where to go and what to do.
Sonic Mantras should hopefully be released later this year
on Kozmic Artifacts.
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