THE HEAVY SOUL SESSIONS

The attractive album title suggests that there might be a rework or a different version of existing music and that's right, Djam Karet decided to re-record a couple of tracks plus one cover in a slightly more retro and introspective manner. Keyboards encounter the greatest change and go back to the omnipresent mellotron, sometimes organ and occasionally synths. Music intensity is restrained, guitar gets more psychedelic than usual on a DK album. The first track comes of "A night in Baku" and is the most dynamic track here with great playing by all musicians including bass and drums, it grooves strongly. The only weak track is the lengthy (considering its contents) "Consider figure three" with almost no development and sounding messy. "Dedicated to KC" is a cover track and is handled decently but not particularly strong as a composition. "The gypsy and the hegemon" is my favourite choice here maybe also because I haven't heard this track before. I like it's lyricism, melancholy and solo mellotron moments. It has decen't synth solo and atmosphere. 4 stars for playing and solid music but goes down to 3 stars as there is no new material here.