TRANSITIONAL PHASE

Have not yet experienced the dark cosmic realms of Subarchanoid Space's discography, but accept this side project album as a feasible way of finding a star map for navigating there. The tropical mayflower on the record cover sets mind open for earthbound promises of vital life-giving energies, as the plant's petals are yet sheltering its nearly ripe seeds. Fifty minutes long musical exploration is divided to seven phases of progression. Emphasis on sound is weighted to guitar-driven approach, atmospherics being conjured from their reverb treatments and visitations of Geoff Walker's winds and voices. The album dives directly to intensive sonic blows, pleasing with their rhythmic groove, which pulses with both unstoppable life force and psychedelic power. Recording's sound quality is slightly rustic, thus fitting well to my vintage-adjusted ears. The collective freeform playing stays well intact, professional musicians both listening and respecting each other with good sense of style. Music's melodic scales and harmonic elevations relate to aural experiences I associate sacred, similarly as some moments granted from My Brother The Wind, Ash Ra Tempel, Øresund Space Collective and Cosmic Circus Music. These seven Transitional Phases oscillate between dynamic amok runs through the jungle and serene meditations at local tribe's shamanist rites, both witnessed by the moon, witnessed by the stars. This kind of open music allows one to let their internal thoughts fly by the buoyancy of musical seraph's wings, and proving that 26th July 1998 was certainly a great day at the flower-haired San Francisco. A very recommendable record for complete through listenings, either on solitary contemplative meditations or long drivings on the nocturnal motorways, both leading past horizon and destinies beyond.