| CD REVIEW Okta Logue |
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Band : Okta Logue This wonderful album is my favorite of the past month, if the amount of time I've spent listening to it is any indication. Okta Logue, before known as Zaphire Oktalogue, a German psych rock band with more range than almost anyone out there, have released their second offering. Pure positive energy coupled with creative melodies and drastic shifts in mood and style make for an incredibly interesting listen. Ballads Of A Burden is a six track CD full of beautiful and powerful masterpieces that are performed with so much feeling and passion, the intensity of each track is so deep you wonder what was going around the time of writing and recording. The musical variety Ballads Of A Burden has to offer is fascinating. There's an infinite amount of musical material here so that every time you hear it you catch something new that you haven't heard before. It's absolutely stunning. It finds the very young band exploring Dark Side Of The Moon era and Hot Rats era rhythms and organic melodies, floating on the poetics of trombone-smiles, great melodious Gilmour-like playing and pumping Hammond organ rock creating a pretty bluesy psychedelic atmosphere. The longest Floydian song “Decay” is full of hallucinogenic images and inventive music that will grab the listener from the beginning. Even Aha rears its ugly head on this one. There are some wacky, swooshes, bleeps, spiralling guitar parts, Lots happening here and the attentive listener will be rewarded. The boys from Darmstadt should definitely be proud of themselves. 95/100 Cosmicmasseur. |