HOWLING MAD BLACK MUSIC UNDER HOT STARS

Crocodile

Neo-Prog

3.95 | 13 ratings

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Steve Conrad

At some point, I dropped my pen.

The pen that dissects and analyzes,

It simply didn't matter. After all, we are delving deeper, diving down, leaving behind the mundane, the listless, the inane, the mindless.

Rather, we engage, the soul, the spirit of the Bird of Fire, the call of the vulture, the bird of prey, to evoke and call forth the passions and madness of love.

At some point the music-

The music which flows, and twists, and suggests, and returns- the music must bear you away, upon its shoulders, within its bosom, upon its audacious, sometimes mendacious ways.

There is no ego-swollen skull-shattering fretwork, nor keyboard wizardry, no head-banging, chord-bashing, or glittering showmanship.

Rather, sensuous, subtle, artful, elemental, nuanced musical compositions that become a unified whole. In these seven tracks, seven segments of soulful exploration, jazz-inflected, edgy, poetic musings, we must STOP the chatter and the nattering, and allow something much more essential to emerge.

It's there, oh yes indeed.

References to Eden, the Bird of Fire, the flocks and flotillas of the avian and the evanescent universes in which we are but dancing particles...

And we seek to lose ourselves, to find, to lust, to love, to individuate, to conjoin, to weep, and perhaps to rejoice- in the company of the OTHER, who may not at last be there, yet never has left.

This album is the stuff of myth, of longing, of sensation that lies beneath the rational mind, and that if not curtailed- that mind will stultify the dancing spirit waiting to be unleashed herein.

These songs, this music, these lyrics, swoop and soar, dive and plummet, grab us by the lapels and rip away our outer skin, seething and seeking and searing what lies within.

Spirit.

Steve Conrad | 4/5 | 2019-8-31

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