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01. The Alps - A Manhã Na Praia
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02. The Alps - Hallucinations
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03. The Alps - Cloud One
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04. The Alps - Trem Fantasma
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05. The Alps - Labyrinths
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06. The Alps - Pink Light
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07. The Alps - Echoes
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08. The Alps - Into The Breeze
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ARTIST
ALPS, THE
TITLE
III
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TYPE
CATALOG #
TYPE 040CD
TYPE 040CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
10/14/2008
Although
III
might be the third album from San Francisco trio
The Alps
, it marks their first studio-based record and a fresh direction for the psychedelic supergroup. Made up of
Tarentel
mainman
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
, ex-
Tussle
member
Alexis Georgopoulos
(better known as
ARP
), and ex-
Troll
member
Scott Hewicker
, there is a deft amount of skill on display as the three rip through eight tracks of sizzling spiritual bliss. Comparisons here are easy to bring up --
Popol Vuh
,
Ennio Morricone
and
Serge Gainsbourg
spring to mind for starters, as the band toss and tangle through thick drum breaks and reverberating, sun-drenched guitar lines.
III
feels like a lost soundtrack to some crumbling Italian surrealist classic with its pounding bass lines and swirling synthesizers. This is visual music, inspired by the likes of
Werner Herzog
,
Alejandro Jordorowsky
and
Michaelangelo Antonioni
, but what results is far more than a pastiche. Rather, the trio have concocted a record which, while being aware of its sprawling influences, is far more than the sum of its parts. The finest excesses of progressive rock and the leanest intricacies of the psychedelic folk scene have been splashed together with a distinct, dusty funk overlook to produce something which is totally out of time. Free from some half-baked scene or other, this is the result of three musicians doing exactly what they want.
III
has taken a plethora of sounds and crumbled them into something altogether beguiling. From the distant supernaturalism of "Trem Fantasma" to the
Terry Riley
-influenced bliss of "Pink Light," The Alps show us that there's more to psychedelia than meets the eye.
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