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01. GRAILS - Back To the Monastery
02. GRAILS - Bad Bhang Recipe
03. GRAILS - Belgian Wake-Up Drill
04. GRAILS - Smokey Room
05. GRAILS - Black Tar Frequencies
06. GRAILS - Stray Dog
07. GRAILS - Erosion Blues
08. GRAILS - More Erosion
09. GRAILS - Black Tar Prophecy
ARTIST
TITLE
Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1,2, & 3
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
IMPREC 105CD IMPREC 105CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/21/2006

"The collected Black Tar Prophecies ends up being a more idiosyncratic mission statement for future Grails recordings, revealing their fondness for the groundfloor '60s and '70s experimental artists that saw music as a process of discovery as opposed to the pre-conceived, pre-parametered, commodified sport that underground music has become. A parallel is now forming between Grails and old-school experimental bands like Faust who, rejecting their past, started over from the beginning to build new languages in music. Grails' third full length recording, and first full-length since leaving Neurosis' label Neurot, is The Black Tar Prophecies. Seven of these nine tracks from this full length were released in small highly sought-after pressings of 12" vinyl on two European labels. The Black Tar Prophecies is a massive evolutionary step in the established Grails sound and it is shrouded in change and pain. The somewhat clinical studio sound and recording style which has established them a tremendous following has been replaced with a much more free and conceptual recording style. This method liberated the group in the studio and these recordings feel much more open, heavy and for lack of a better term, 'psychedelic.' We're not talking about the cliché co-opted psychedelic fashion, but psychedelia as a reckless embrace of new states of mind and possibilities." Last copies...