- Krautrock
- Psych-rock
- Experimental rock
- Avant-rock
- Improvised music
- Live session
- Free jazz
Comment:
Botânicos is a project by the Brazilian musician Fabio Oliveira aka
Frithlang who is supported by 4 other musicians on this 4-notch
issue. The compositions are long-running ones three of them reach
more than a 10-minute mark. It was recorded live at Ateliê Ana Cohen
in February 2005. The issue is a part of the discography of Menthe de
Chat. Yeah, the whole trace is trippy and without rush and
accelerated tempo, every chord seems to be delineated, magnified and
accentuated within the tropical environment. I feel jungle fever
within it. Mostly the mood is sultry for yet at times those
improvisations and free jazz-inflected propulsions turn into
abrasively shrieking whirlpools and weird elliptically shaped forms.
Sidharta embarks on very similarly to Radiohead's
Paranoid
Android yet soon it is headed by wah-wah effects, intriguing
vocal mixing, a clockwork-alike instrument, fragmented keys played on
a flute and saxophone. One can perceive some sort of controlled
madness which will come and go by injecting invigorating impulses to
the mix. It may be considered a peculiar kind of New Age music due to its floating nature and oocasional interruptions. And so it goes on to the final and victorious point. In a
nutshell, the result is impressively expressive.
