- Hard rock
- Heavy metal
- Psychedelic rock
- Live
session
- Crossover
- Krautrock
- Improvised music
- Math rock
- Space rock
Comment: there
has been a coon`s age since I last reviewed something from an obscure
imprint called Bob Chaos Recordings. It can be said most of the
compositions from within come out of the 80s. Outside the imprint
there has been slight traces of it. I can remember for a release of
WM Recordings called
Extremely mild and pleasant tasting The best
of Bob Chaos Recordings 1984-1986 (one of the artists appeared on
it was Atomic Butterfly).
And four more issues by Phil Reavis.
By the way, Phil Reavis was a member of Atomic Butterfly, a name
which used to have resemblance with Iron Butterfly, a combo which did
contribute strongly to the development of heavy rock, and heavy
metal. In fact, by listening to the albums and watching the pictures
of the so-called heavy metal and hard rock combos from the end-60s
and the beginning-70s the case used to be frequently thoroughly
psychedelic and hippy by its nature although some violent threads
started already to appear within the combos` sound. It is the case
because Atomic Butterfly`s 12-track issue - unfortunately I was
allowed to download 10 tracks only because a couple of them had
problems with the downloading links - is as rough and hirsute as a
piece of corroded iron. In truth,
Atomic Butterfly is a live
session record filled in with stomping drums, abrasive guitar
noodling and acidic organ playing. I like that shitty sound quality.
In any cases, if are searching for a robust, refreshing experience
then you should come over to this legacy. It is a frantic instance of
improvised music being far away from a neat, commerically oriented,
often contemporary hard rock example (nuff said). You can hear even
some motorik/krautrock, and math rock patterns although officially the latter term was not invented
yet. In any cases, for once again, crank up the volume knob and get
your rocks off on listening to it with your neighbours.
