SENDELICA - Pavilion Of Magic And Trails Of The Seven Surviving - 2 LP colour Su
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Description
Original Erscheinungsjahr: 2011 Year originally published: 2011 Label: Sunhair Label: Sunhair Zustand: Neuware Condition: New Land: England Country: England Stil: Psychedelic Style: Psychedelic Herstellungsjahr: 2016 Date manufactured: 2016 Medium: LP Media: LP Gewicht.: 555 Weight.: 555 Artikelnr.: SH 0014 Cat. no.: SH 0014
Bemerkungen / Comments:
Yellow/black splatter vinyl.
THE PAVILION OF MAGIC AND TRAILS OF THE SEVEN SURVIVING ELOHIM
Sendelica have covered a lot of ground over several albums, and on their latest they are rocking out in space while diverting traveler-listeners to various stylistic ports of call. The band is still the core of Pete Bingham on guitars and electronics and Glenda Pescado on bass, plus Nick Danger on drums, Colin Consterdine on synths and electronics, Roger Morgan playing keyboards and electronics on several tracks, and a few other guests that we'll get to shortly.
The album opens with Zhyly Byly, a tightly structured power-psych space rocker. I like the combination of blistering guitar licks and Reggae-ish rhythms. A strong opening track. The Elohim is next and is a 15 minute stoned, but ethereal, spaced out jam. The band trip along, Pete's guitar leading the way, with the rhythm section maintaining a steady marching beat, plus soaring, howling and bubbling space electronic embellishments. What makes this a solid track for me is that it's not only a cool spaced out jam, but Pete's guitar creates melodies that make the jamming all the more pleasant and kept my attention throughout. I'm feeling pretty mellow after that one, and Sendelica continue in a similar mood but return to the shorter and more structured song mold with Guiding The Night, a 3 minute rocker that comes across like some kind of psychedelic anthem. Just as Guiding The Night ends the band shift abruptly into the mellower but still melodic rocking Orion Delight. Arizona Spree takes us into different territory, being a drifting space-ambient-jazz piece with gorgeous sax leads by Lee Relfe. The 12 minute Banshees & Fetches follows and seems to pick up where Arizona Spree left off, continuing with ambient and somewhat jazzy spaced out themes. It jams, but in an understated laid back way, and we're treated to more cool sax soloing from Lee Relfe, which goes nicely with Pete's bubbling trip guitar. In the last minutes the band pick up the pace and take off before coming in for a soft landing. Wrapping up the set is The Pavilion Of Magic, another stoned, jamming spaced out psych rocker.
But wait, there's MORE! Sendelica round out the set with two cover tunes. One is the Velvet Underground's classic Venus in Furs, which Sendelica originally released as a vinyl 7' on the Fruits de Mer label (backed with a cover of Funkadelic's Maggot Brain). This is a nice cover of Venus in Furs, with Alice Davidson's vocals giving the song a distinctly non-Velvets character. Traversing to the other side of the universe, Sendelica follow this with a cover of Captain Beefheart's This Is The Day (which I believe was on the Captain's Unconditionally Guaranteed album). The band give the song an acoustic-ambient treatment, with excellent (un-Beefheartian) vocals by Molara and flute by Nik Turner.
(Aural Innovations)
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