REQUIEM

There are myths created round this band. The band members claim they´re coming from small Swedish village Korpilombolo, where people used to practise voodoo. After Christian crusaders destroyed the village original people sent a curse of it. Nobody knows exatcly who are playing in this band, because they´re wearing masks and primitive looking costums in publicity and when playing live gigs. In reality band seems to work in Gothenburg and maybe only three members are really originally from Korpilombolo. Also round these three core members other players have changed during the years. The band has recorded three studio albums, two live albums and one short soundtrack album. It has toured in US and Europe and has started recently playing gigs again. From the beginning UK Rocket Records has been their record company. Have to say I think this is the most interesting 2010`s psychedelic band.

At least later pressings starts with "Djorolen" that is short only vocals including piece with birds sounds. Soon starts marching rhythm "Union Of Sun and Moon" that has very gentle flutes and some spoken words. Soft direction continues in "I Sing In Silence" that goes into 6/8 rhythm. Female vocals are very beautiful and there are flutes again in this very acoustic sounding piece. Next "Temple Rhythms" starts with sambalike percussions and soon comes flutes in it. In this instrumental piece your body just start to move. Direction goes sadder in "Alarms" which has really great male and female melodic vocals. "Trouble In the Street" is again very cheerful piece and it could have made by some South-African band. "Psychedelic Lover" starts with very muslim sounding chant. But soon comes melodic guitars and soft percussions and after sometime very sad, but melodic vocals. In their every album there are songs that has "Goat" in the begin of the song name. So there are two in this album and finally also song that name is "Goatband". This is the most rocksong in this album so far. It´s growing whole time adding elements in it´s almost 8 minutes lenght. Very hypnotic piece!

"Try My Robe" starts second album in vinyl version. It has 6/8 soft rhythm and very vivid mandolin sound string instruments, but later come awesome fuzzy guitars and female vocals. "It´s Not Me" has acoustic guitar and some really bright sounding african percussive instrument. Female vocals come through some "tube" sound effect. "All-Seeing Eye" is very rhythmic piece and there is even slight distortion in guitar. "Goatfuzz" makes you move in it´s great rotation of acoustic and fuzz guitars! In the end very sitar sounding guitar starts to play psychedelic melody. "Goodbye" is again very afrosounding instrumental piece. "Ubuntu" has only gentle music and some spoken words. Ubuntu means South-African philosophy of human connections, so I believe there are put South-African people´s speeches. At least in some CD:s there is in the end "Union Of Mind and Soul" that is sung version of "Union Of Sun and Moon".

So far this is the last full lenght album from Goat. I really hope the album name didn´t mean they decided in 2016 this would be their last one. Anyway it´s great the band will make gigs again and they´re also coming into Finland next August in Helsinki Festival. Naturally I have bought tickets into that concert! If this review wakes your interest, it´s highly recommended listen this or their second "Commune"-album. In their first "World Music" they were little bit inmature. This album really was one the greatest in 2016! I have to give this full 5 stars, because this is psychedelic masterpiece that is very rare after sixties! All the way this one takes you into very relaxing, meditative state of mind!