Author: Loop Guru

Format: Import

Release Date: 03-10-1995

Details: Product Description "File under: new sounds in psychoactive, global, cross-cultural electronica. There are bands that make good records there are bands that make new and interesting sounds, and then there are bands that turn your head around, like watching a sunrise on acid in the Nazca desert. The post-techno/trip-hop music of these three shamans of sound Jamuud, Salman Gita and Speechless - is created from bits of earth culture (vocal samples from Eastern religious music, eerie scientific voices, trip-hop bass lines, groaning didgeridoos and soothing electronic tones), mixed and melded with wizardlike acumen, creating music that is at once akin to that of the Orb, Tranquility Bass and Wagon Christ, but also inhabits its own brave new world. not so sure about the Bez-Iike contributions of group member Speechless, whose sole instrumental credit is "hypnorhythmic therapy" on one track, the music of Loop Guru is a visionary sound for visionary times. We don't even want to think about what this music would sound like in our waterproof Walkman headphones in an isolation tank. Check: "The Fine Line Between Passion And Fear," "Sussan 9 (Living In Backward World)," "Through Cinemas," "Shrine Of Sringar" and the 21:48 of "The Third Chamber (Part 4)." For fans of Easter Dub Tactik. Amazon.ca Drawing from their Indian and Middle Eastern heritages, the UK dance/ambient outfit Loop Guru creates quintessential exotic grooves with a fat wall-of-sound typical of Nation Records, full of evocative instrumentation and layered over a bottom heavy rhythm section. Like their siblings, Transglobal Underground, they utilize their roots in an intelligent and non-superficial way, truly echoing the culture-bending populace of metropolitan clubland. Their heady, dub-influenced brew spans the sonic range from dervish intensity to long, raga-esque soundscapes deceptively simple in their complexity. The Casbah vocals of Sussan Deihim and Islamic samples are underpinned by the conscious, fat rhythms of Count Dubulah, Salman Gita, and crew weaving gamelan, Hindu, and Nubian elements into proto-funk and trip hop grooves. With a street level spirituality and global conciousness, "Duniya" creates aural tapestries that become a highly listenable urban safari, melding both time and cultures in a new and original expression of world citizenship. --Derek Rath

UPC: 789068510323

EAN: 0789068510323

Languages: english

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood