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Acid Bluus Raags Vol.2
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LP
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GODUNK 110LP
GODUNK 110LP
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RELEASE DATE
4/26/2024
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Açid Blüüs Räägs Vol.2 is the latest evolution of the sound of 2022's Volume 1 (GODUNK 077LP). Volume 2 builds on the skronk blues guitar, sax and electronic drones of its predecessor, to explore cosmic free jazz, concrete exotica and dub, channeling influences of Moondog, Terry Riley, 75 Dollar Bill, and Wolf Eyes. Playing like the imagined film soundtracks to a dystopian, re-wilded, post eco crash world in the style of Tarkovsky's Stalker and Solaris, Jodorowsky's surreal desert western El Topo, or the early novels of JG Ballard. This new collection sees the addition of minimal analogue drum machine loops as well as live instrumental contributions from the new players of the ever-evolving Invocation band, plus some superstar guest contributors. Featuring five brand new tracks, including the forthcoming single, "Cosmic Fanfare." The new album was mixed by Alex McGowan (aka Captain Future) of Space Eko Studios and features Invocation band regulars Rick Jensen of Apocalypse Jazz Unit, Skronk and Oneirologist on sax and bass clarinet, Will Emms aka Tiki Eerie on melodica, horns and claviola, plus special guest appearances from Duke Garwood on clarinet and Mikey 'Moondog' Chestnut of Snapped Ankles on bass synth. Jonny Halifax is a primitivist free blues outsider, sonic shaman of the acid fuzzed lap steel guitar, demented blower of the howling harmonica of doom. His new band project now combines avant swamp blues heaviosity with kosmic free jazz experimentalism in a fluid collective of godless raag brut improvisations -- sonic visions of an hallucinatory apocalyptic near future. Inspired by Henry Flynt's avant bluegrass experiments fusing country blues with eastern acoustic musical stylings and Spacemen 3's contemporary sitar music, The Jonny Halifax Invocation build hypnotic instrumental soundscapes using lap steel and homemade slide guitars, harmonica and alto sax. Underpinned by layers of acoustic and electronic drone instruments and fed through an arsenal of pedalboard electronics that would make Kevin Shields weep, the blues are transmogrified, unhinged, reduced and re-imagined as intoxicating, trance-inducing, feedback-drenched noise paintings. The Jonny Halifax Invocation follows Jonny's junkshop skronk blues one man band Honkeyfinger, and the Julian Cope endorsed gospel fuzz psychedelia of Jonny Halifax & The Howling Truth, whilst not forgetting his ambient drone metal side project; Deathenteredinerror. His musical CV also includes studio contributions to tracks by Andrew Weatherall's Two Lone Swordsmen, UK metal behemoths Orange Goblin, Heck, and Melting Hand.
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