Wizardzz-Hidden City Of Taurmond

Picture yourself in a boat on a river...except it isn't a boat, it's an intergalactic spaceship called the SS Wizardzz....and it isn't a river but the deep,ever changing currents of space as you spin wildly towards the center of the galaxy. This is the sound of the new cd by the Wizardzz helmed by the multi talented Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt fame and co piloted by Rich Porter from the eclectic Bug Sized Mind.

On this platter Mr. Gibson has traded his usual post behind the spastic bubblings of LB bass riffage for an excellent exercise in tribal and tripped out drum pounding that rivals even the king of pow chicka pow himself, Brian Chippendale. Porter counters this imaginitively with a warm array of soaring synth and deep space sounds that have the listener feeling like they are in orbit around spectacular gas giants and swirling black holes where hidden civilizations await your arrival. This music to me is about the journey...the feeling of constant movement towards something fantastic yet hidden. A journey that brings us to places where kings and wizards fight life and death battles on the edge of decaying star clusters...where music is magic and a gateway way to travel through time and space. All the listener needs do is put on the headphones...turn up the volume and count backwards 5...4...3..2...1....ignition.

Musically, if you had to define this in a genre... it hoovers around the land of "Kraut"rock, space rock, avante garde and even a little new age at times although this never becomes any kind of a Jean Michel Jarre pulp and rocks along quite nicely due to the tribal and energetic drum section. Definitely unique in its sound and deliverence.It definitely grows on you...

This is a 14 track cd with beautiful original artwork on Load records who are constantly pushing the envelope of releasing great music in our fair city of Providence. Write to them at www.loadrecords.com or head on down to the good people at Armageddon shop and pick one up!

Listen to Whispers from Wallface from "The Hidden City of Tarmound"