Heart&Crossbone

17/05/2022

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01/03/2022

wow, this took me a while

10 track album

07/02/2022

finally

13/03/2016

Heart&Crossbone

16/08/2015

..and another great review from Crucial Blast, This time for Owl Glitters:

" At first glance, this album from Owl Glitters didn't look like something I'd be interested in; the combination of that goofy band name, the garish mandalas that make up the album art and the presence of songs with titles like "Dervishes" and "By The Candle Light Our Eyes Welcome Glimmers Of Eternity" sort of suggested something along the lines of hippy-dippy neo-psychedelia, which I've been less and less interested in lately. But an endorsement from the fine Israeli label Heart & Crossbone is always enough to get me to check something out, usually indicative of heavier, more f**ked-up tuneage. And that's what you get from Tones, the debut album from this Georgia-based band, who definitely cruise through some higher elevations with their stoned-out conglom of chanting voices, mesmeric hand drum rhythms, searing psych-fuzz guitar and circular bass lines. But that druggy, bleary psychedelia gets hammered by some bursts of serious heaviness, giving this a more sinister vibe than expected.
There's a definite resemblance to hypno-rockers Om. Opener "Dervishes" kicks things off with that distinctly Om-esque feel, lumbering across the beginning with it's bass-heavy elliptic groove, but as the band starts to pile on more and more electric guitar into the mix, the music begins to evolve into something a little frayed and edgy, streams of distorted noodling and Morricone-esque atmosphere wafting over that narcotized tribal thump. That tribal percussive feel is present through much of this, with similarly hypnotic psych jams like "Journey Of The Godheads" and "Hakim Sanai" further fusing a hazy, bleary black-forest drum circle vibe with moody melodies and more of those bouts of screaming guitar shred. There's also some weirdly galloping freak-folk on "Mindfull Of Gems" that sort of feels like an old-school doom metal riff being played over that pounding drum circle, and elsewhere, you'll get some proggy, borderline metallic guitar parts mingling with more of that ecstatic percussive din. That rolling, layered drumming becomes the pulsating heart of Owl Glitter's darkened psychedelia, rattling tambourine and polyrhythmic beats leading their twisted forest rituals further down a knotty tunnel into deeper and more delirious realms of doom-drenched chant and soundtracky shadowscapes, joined by glorious vocal harmonies and raga-laced drones, all seared by waves of shimmering nightside guitar. By the end of this disc, I was totally hooked on the band's music, which at times resembles a more shredtastic, doom-laden Master Musicians Of Bu***ke, at others a more folk-fueled Om, but with their own oddly epic vibe feel. If you dug that Queen Elephantine stuff that also came out on Heart & Crossbone, this is definitely on a similar druggy, ritualistic wavelength."

13/08/2015

Beautiful Nate Hall review on Crucial Blast:

"Killer psychedelic heaviness! U.S. Christmas guitarist / singer Nate Hall follows up a pair of killer solo appearances on Neurot with this new two-song dip into the cosmic whirlpool, raining down a pair of fairly epic-length psych jams that shudder with Hall's trademark low-slung riffery and penchant for star-scorching effects sp***ge. This really hit the spot when I threw it on earlier in the midst of a rather depressing workday; the first track "Dance Of The Prophet" howls across the first half of the disc, sending some languidly lysergic power-blooze noodling soaring through a fog of delay and fl**ge effects, billowing out across waves of rumbling distorted amplifier drone and distant slo-mo drumming, almost sounding in those first few minutes like some classic Acid Mothers style space-psych being played back at quarter speed.
Once Hall drifts in with those far-off, incantatory vocals, though, this definitely starts to resemble the sort of Appalachian sludge-psych he's been delivering with his main band for the past decade. It's a different spin on it though, incorporating subtle bits of electronic glitchery and manipulated guitar sounds to craft something a little more spacey and surreal. The whole thing meanders across the disc, both tracks oozing into long stretches of barely formed bleariness and wailing guitar drone, seeping strange shortwave frequencies and drifting into passages of haunting glacial twang, a kind of slow moving and sun-blasted sinister psychedelia beamed in from some rustic black nebulae mapped out by Manly Wade Wellman, rife with moments of startling stark majesty. And on the second song "Long Howling Decline / People Fall Down", Hall cranks up the amps for an even heavier descent into an acid-fried hypno-rock ritual, the frantic howl of Crazy Horse tumbling in reverse up through an ancient mine shaft, before finally breaking apart into a searing blast of solarized feedback and ghostly feedback drone that transforms into a beautiful elegiac passage that climbs upward across the finale of the album, which turns out to be a cover of a song from Idaho psych rockers Caustic Resin, who's Brett Netson (also of Built To Spill) actually appears on this album on additional guitar and bass. If you're into the likes of Hall's main band, the country-fried doom n' twang of recent Neurosis, the glacial rural gothic of latter day Earth, and the blown-out saurian country rock of Across Tundras, then this is one you're definitely going to want to pick up."

04/08/2015

Nico Teen - Green Fingers (2015)

new video from Nico Teen

From the album "In The Houses" July 2015 Uganda Records https://nicoteen-inthehouses.bandcamp... https://soundcloud.com/nico-teen-2 VIDEO CREDITS: story by Z...

15/07/2015

In The Houses, by Nico Teen

NOW AVAILABLE ON BANDCAMP

12 track album