Ak'chamel - Transmissions from Boshqa (2016)
We last heard from Ak'chamel back in
2015 with their quick album The Man Who Drank God.
Impressions were pretty favorable, as the band expressed themselves
in interesting and uncommon ways, and to be honest, I've kind of been
wondering what they'd been up to. I'm glad to receive signs of life
with their new album, Transmissions from Boshqa,
which again keeps tracks on the short side, though they break the
three-minute mark more than a couple of times on this go-round.
The
music maintains the band's intriguingly alien nature, not just from
the eastern/aboriginal modes and usage of instruments beyond the
guitar/bass/drums staples, but also thanks to the semi-lo-fi
production and its strange meshing of smooth edges with strange
head-space. The very acoustics are put to work in the efforts to
unsettle listeners and guide them into the music's captivation, and
the album as a whole has something of a hypnotic effect that made it
difficult to analyze it for reviewing instead of just going along for
the ride.
Like
Ak'chamel's last release, this one's available on cassette, this time
through the Artetetra label. It's certainly not an album for
everyone (thank goodness), but those who are open to some unusual
flavors in their music for bad times should be able to get some stirring stimulus out of it.
~
Gabriel
For
Fans Of; Have A Nice Life, Mamaleek, Nurse With Wound, Opium
Warlords, Wyatt E.
~
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