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It's been more than a year since Bob LeBad's last message on that other site. Would be nice to see some vital signs in concordance with the oncoming shows. Choosing internet absence these days appears absolutely plausible, but it's been really really silent recently. Anyway, lots of good times to all who manage to attend a show.
Thanks for the donation links! There are lots of humanitarian activities in my town Chemnitz and pretty much all other german cities right now. Feel free to use this channel if it helps! Best, Marc
@punknotyet: Stay safe!
Thanks, i just read at the time of the album that they changed it since it was deemed too similar to Fu Manchu's "California Crossing", being released in the same week. No idea if that's true or corrupted memory of mine
Alltime favs: AADAP & Blissard… that out-of-focus/close-up style is just perfectly fitting the music and of course emotionally special since they were the first mp covers i put my eyes on. RW1 also great. Possibly bad from a layout-rulebook pov, but there's something raw, mystic and monolithic about it. You just feel the monster lurking once you pull out the vinyl.
Btw, has anyone ever seen the oroginal concept for the Barracuda artwork?
@Kid A – i think i get the "boring"-verdict. Actually, i like that he doesn't fully exploit ideas to the absolut maximum, but rather relies on them to just work and unfold effect by themselves. Boring? Maybe. I like the confidence of keeping an idea pure and simple with just nuanced vairations and turns. Go listen to it on a sunday
Just had a new gem from Stickman in the mail:
Delving – Hirschbrunnen
ELDER Frontman Nick di Salvo's solo project….highly recommended! a really craftfully composed instrumental psych/rock/howeveryounameit-album. Certainly some traces of Motorpsycho and Jaga Jazzist (minus the horns). Also, really nice artwork!
Not yet worthy enough of a new thread regarding a potential KoO-Follow Up, but apparently today marks the last day of recording in Oslo. Might be MP, might be another band Tomas is involved in.
https://www.instagram.com/stories/tomasjarmyr/2571837640192332306/?hl=de
So, after a while I need to change my verdict on the album quite a bit – and for the better!! I did'nt really listen to it too often, but when i did i really enjoyed it as a whole. I would even regard it as a successful fan-pleaser as you can find traces from pretty much all the different stages of the band. I was underwhelmed by the sabbathy riffs and the folk songs, but it all falls nicely into place.
One thought on Snah's solos: I think the reason why they appear a bit generic recently is that the solos lie on top of mostly pentatonic or one-chord riffs…so, there isn't much to venture out from. God needs some harmonics and chord progressions to play with and lift off from :STG:
One question: Does anybody know why there is absolutely no activity on the motorpsycho.no-site?
Cheers
@Tomcat: Great, I like people offering solid solutions to difficult situations
:STG: :MPD:I second the comments about the guitar solos. Snah is one of the very few guitarists who manages to really tell stories with his soloing – uplifting, creating friction with the harmonies and just making it an additional voice. Reading comparisons to bands like DT, who treat music like a competition of skills, is pretty much the most horrible thought i can think of :lol: It also makes the lurker's final part rather difficult for me – live of course it might work as the ultimate madness crescendo.
I'll sit this one out. Great artwork, but now that i listened to it, i really don't see myself ever pulling it out of the shelf again. It certainly is well-crafted music, but it doesn't do anything for me emotionally. Except maybe for the title track (Snah can't do no wrong!) and "At Empire's end", which would have been a great B-Side on one of the 10inch EPs. The rest feels more like a rather random sequence of riffs and sketches, instead of real songs. Odd meters, layers of sound, twists and turns…but what for? What is the core of the idea?
What always made MP special for me, was the urgency of the songs. The feeling that it is absolutely impossible that there ever was a world without their songs in it. How did mankind ever exist without "Un chien", "S.T.G.", "Vortex Surfer"?(add any song you like to the list). By now, i barely see that anymore.
Still, i am sincerely happy for everyone drawing joy from it.
Sail on!
