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Artist:
THE VOCOKESH
Title:
Smile! And Point At The Mountain?
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 076CD
Repress of this CD now available from this Milwaukee post-F/i trio. "One single piece, all sixty-five minutes of the disc. Using a variety of effects devices, some synthetic generators and the occasional found instrument (like a sitar) over a series of chord- and mood changes, the Vocokesh invoke the good old days of mind expansion."
Artist:
THE VOCOKESH
Title:
Paradise Revisited
Label:
DRAG CITY
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.50
Catalog #:
DC 136CD
"The cult of Frenecki is still at large. They keep to themselves and no one bothers them, but if you storm their house, you'll find a lot of vintage electronic generators, a cache of foreign instruments, some rather large amplification devices and stores (and scores) of axes, picks and strings. This is prog rock, but a pre-post-rock version of prog. Coming on like an undiscovered green world of music, the Vocokesh manage to reintroduce earth-bound psychedelia into your mix."
Artist:
THE VOCOKESH
Title:
Ispepnaibara
Label:
LEXICON DEVIL (AUSTRALIA)
Format:
CD
Price:
$12.50
Catalog #:
LEXDEV 002CD
Originally issued in 2001. After being in the deleted wilderness for over half a decade,
The Vocokesh
's vinyl-only 1990 debut LP gets the CD treatment, fully remastered with totally new artwork, and, as a bonus, the CD also features their side to the split LP they did with their old buddies
F/i
back in '92. The Vocokesh story begins somewhere around 1990, when
Richard Franecki
decided to call it quits with his longtime band, legendary Milwaukee space-rockers, F/i . Sensing a loss in direction on their behalf, as they dropped their more experimental leanings for a relatively straight rock approach, Franecki grabbed his belongings, a couple of F/i members (no hard feelings there) and made
Ispepnaibara
(that's "Arabian Pepsi" backwards) pronto for the renowned RRR label outta Massachusetts. A stunning mix of hard-assed psych-rock, lumbering space-churn and bleating electronics, the album turned some heads, won some fans and praise and sold out its pressing for its efforts. This limited-edition run of 700 copies of
Ispepnaibara
and their side to the F/i split has been fully remastered for CD with totally new (and dazzling) artwork and liner notes by
Dave Lang
. If you're at all partial to the sounds of Krautmeisters
Popol Vuh
,
Ash Ra Tempel
,
Amon Düül
, etc., the space boogie of
Hawkwind
and early
Pink Floyd
or the amp-torture of
Blue Cheer
, then Vocokesh are right up your alley.
Artist:
THE VOCOKESH
Title:
The Tenth Corner
Label:
STRANGE ATTRACTORS AUDIO HOUSE
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
SAAH 019CD
"Vocokesh seriously tweak the standard rock trio infrastructure by processing the guitars beyond earthly recognition and inoculating the cacophony with an arsenal of vintage analog electronics. With seven songs totalling over an hour of music,
The Tenth Corner
explores some seriously alien terrain with an elusively mechanical, intensely lysergic sound. Unfurling like mellow smoke from some alien opium den, the title track introduces the sonic soiree in a pleasant mood, as distant acoustic plucking and electronic oscillations provide a pillowing backdrop for some elegant electric guitar flourishes. Imbued with an intense array of moods and textures,
The Tenth Corner
is a tremendously cinematic listening experience -- in fact, three tunes are envisioned as supplemental/alternate soundtracks to some particularly vivid cult films. Composition and improvisation coalesce into a sound that draws from the early flights of 70's German avant rock (Agitation Free, Cosmic Jokers, Ash Ra Tempel) and synth-powered cosmic (Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh) if it were created in the embryonic electronic music labs of the 60's and 70's. Transcendent, gritty, hallucinatory --
The Tenth Corner
is undoubtedly Vocokesh's finest hour."
Artist:
THE VOCOKESH
Title:
Through the Smoke
Label:
STRANGE ATTRACTORS AUDIO HOUSE
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
SAAH 034CD
"With
Through the Smoke
, Vocokesh expand upon the ominous acid soundtracks that saturated The Tenth Corner. Combining the swirling guitars of Pink Floyd and the Kraut-inspired mayhem of Ash Ra Tempel with the early analog electronic surrealism of Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, Vocokesh continue to place pressure on the boundaries of sound, incessantly exploring cryptic soundscapes via their oftentimes unsettling brand of electronics-drenched, drugged-out rock. On this outing, however, the soundscapes come mixed with some more prog-like elements and even a touch of psych/garage riffing. 'Vibe #6' stirs slowly with heady bass pulses, swooshing synths and subtle guitar lines, but quickly stumbles headlong into all-out mania as Franecki's guitar pyrotechnics spiral forth like alien tendrils, reverberations of a gong tolling the first wave of what is to be a long, dark trip. But a sidestep into garage-psych of 'Vocokesh Theme Song' provides a nice respite, as the band exhumes the spirit of Electric Prunes-like fuzz and vibrato. The sojourn is short-lived, as Vocokesh continue on, taking the listener on their impressionistic journey woven from total sound exploration. Vocokesh manage to skillfully hybridize the best of the early '70s avant-garde into their cinematic improvisations. Florian Fricke, David Gilmour, Manuel Göttsching, Edgar Froese, Moebius & Roedelius and Fripp & Eno are all exhumed, but Vocokesh re-image the references into something far more extreme than the aforementioned ever imagined. Eerie and sonically provocative,
Through the Smoke
is one intense mind-moving hallucination."
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