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6/21/2011

Damo Suzuki & Magical Unicellular Music: WHNZ:17:SUM (2011)



/Improvised music, Jam session, Avant-rock, Krautrock, Experimental rock, Live session, Psychedelic, Psych-rock/


Comment: CAN`s Tago Mago (1971) has been one of the strangest albums I have ever heard, an album which extended the borders of my consciousness. Moreover, it was the first album of CAN where was made appearance by Kenji "Damo" Suzuki who used to sing in a hell-ish mix of psychedelia, articulated/unarticulated incantations, fixing up recognized and fictive, self-contrived languages. Approximately 10 years after his leaving from the Cologne-based quartet he started off his solo project as Damo Suzuki`s Network, rambling around the world and perfoming with a wide array of local artists (so-called Sound Carriers). However, this time the Japanese legend is assisted by the magnificient Russian/Belorussian combo Magical Unicellular Music (for instance, listen to their albums at the Clinical Archives). Their set lasts up to a bit more than one hour, all the sound is wrapped up in a highly mantric section of the trialogue of bass-drums-guitar. Actually it is penetrated with psychedelic synths at times. A charming improvised psych-jam session indeed. This man can previously punch and groove.