ELECTRIC SILENCE

Dzyan's Electric Silence (1975) would prove to be their last effort for almost 25 years until the collective re-surfaced in 2000 to produce one more album(haven't heard it yet). While Dzyan keep the same style of the first two albums, with Electric Silence more exotic and eastern instruments are used. The first track Back to Where We Came From is a 9 minute song that slowly builds into a fiery and exotic jam session. A Day in My Life showcases their love for eastern music with sitar and other instruments I don't know the names of. The Road Not Taken starts with ambient guitar and slowly builds into sheer madness. Synths enter and all hell breaks loose for a minute or so before fading back to the same ambient guitar. Khali is another Indian-sounding shorter track which showcases lovely sitar, guitar, even some space synths. For Earthly Thinking is another longer song (10 minutes or so) which is awash with mellotron and steel drumming turns into expanded drum solo, awesome bass lines, and fierce guitar. The final track and title track Electric Silence takes the listener back to the sound of their first two albums ala Mahavishnu Orchestra jazz-fusion (minus the violin and piano). Each track on this album is unique in its own way. A very hard album to describe. One needs to hear it to believe my 5 star rating. One of the most unique/eclectic/exotic/awesome albums I have ever heard. Each musician is at the top of their game. Pretty powerful music from just a trio! In 1975, the prog world was rapidly changing: King Crimson were gone, Yes' last album that was any good occurred just two years later, Can was done, Gabriel left Genesis etc. My point being it's nice to know there was still something so wonderful going on especially in the Krautrock genre as most of the German bands were drying up creatively. Check it out!!