Queen Elephantine
Scarab ()
Wydane przez Heart & Crossbone RecordsRok wydania Kraj USANapisał Kunal Choksi7
Queen Elephantine is a long-running Doom/Drone band from Hong Kong that recently moved to the US. That’s what makes the band’s music so interesting perhaps – it’s a hodgepodge of ethnic influences, including Indian ones what with the musical instruments being employed such as the Tanpura. The effect is visceral, psychedelic and spiritual. It’s difficult to try and get into this album. You just have to let it grow on you, take a hold over your subconscious and it will change the air in your room.
It’s an ever-droning mélange of various sounds, ever-evolving, some fleeting some lasting. It’s not as heavy as one would expect perhaps, since there’s less doom here but it’s part of the same ilk. I love the way the music escalates ever so deceptively and before you know it a lot is happening and there’s your extremity but in a different sense. It’s on a different level, a different plane. It’s comparable to a more ambient-sounding Om, something atmospheric in a sense than something traditionally heavy.
The best example of the music would be the second song Crone which is an 18-minute mental detergent. It always has something going on, varying levels of instrumentation while never letting go of the grip on your mind. The songs are somewhat transitional and never abrupt. It’s therefore a journey, an experience into different states of mind, which is what makes this band and release special.
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