Wednesday, May 27, 2009  12:07 am 

Glasslands

Ghostape ensnares an unsuspecting listener in a snug realm of smokey spectral exotica, like turning a flesh and bone body into rice-paper and setting it down on a bed of morning dew where it can melt into the blades of grass on a field in front of a strange formation rendered in black glass and medieval stone pillars, with the man and his hooded woodland followers spiralling around this ancient ground in an intoxicating dance and song – half hyphy made by Arcadian nymphs and half tribal jams made by all the smallest mammals. If the stars be properly aligned at the moment of midnite, apparitions appear to possess the creatures and a new rhythm is created in a jamboree of bones, glass shards, sticks hitting stretched skin and the hushed twinkling of harps made of pine cones.

Ghostape – I Feel your Soul

Lush tendrils of beautiful wonderment comes in many forms, and from Indonesia creeps the psychedelic tones of Space System, incorporating solemn marimba pulses into a shifting-sands back-bone beat with a warped reality effect that drags the events of “Akira” into a pin-point vacuum and fires them out the other side, re-written as a sweet anti-gravity strole in a park on the surface of Neptune, transparent flashes of a mutated Tetsuo heralded in by echoing sea-shell synths. If Krautrock had been invented in the Far East, then this would of opened one of Tangerine Dream’s early LP’s:

Space System – Petik

Taken from the “Nature” LP, out on space.rec.

Primavera Sound kicks off tomorrow, and your 20JFg friends will be doing the rounds of amaze, this is one of the best festivals ever so hopefully see some of you there, at the first row of Liars and Oneida. We are also DJing at the closing down party on Sunday at Apolo, so come and say hi!

labels >> Ghostape, Space System, xxjfg

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