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OM Advaitic Songs 2 x LP

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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
With each new album, Om has continued to thoughtfully expand its sound with added guest players, further experimentation with new instrumentation, and numerous new layers added to their core sound, that of a throbbing, pulsating hypno-rock founded on the crushing seminal drug-sludge that Om's Al Cisneros pioneered in Sleep. We started to see these evolutions in Om's sound on the last album God Is Good, where the band (now featuring new drummer Emil Amos, also of Grails and Master Musicians Of Bukkake, taking over the drum throne from original drummer Chris Hakius) began to being in additional instrumentation in the form of tabla hand-drums, flutes and the sitar-like tamboura, which were used to create a delirious cloud of hazy, meditative sound around the duo's heavy, slithering grooves. On 2012's Advaitic Songs, the band continues to draw its inspiration from the histories and iconography of Christianity, Hinduism and other spiritual paths, and as with previous albums, the band explores the capabilities of heavy-duty rock instrumentation within the realm of sacred music, winding vocal passages rooted in spiritual chant and meditative melodies around the muscular rhythm section. But even more so than before, Om has introduced even more elements to their music, starting with the continued presence of Robert Low on tamboura, a position that for the time being at least seems to be permanent; Lowe brings more of his buzzing raga-style drones to Advaitic Songs, adding an extra layer of trance-like sound to Om's music that sounds pretty fantastic. And the album features a bunch of other added players, including Jackie Perez Gratz (Amber Asylum, Grayceon) and Lucas Chen on cello, viola/violinist Jory Fankuchen, flautist Lorraine Rath (The Gault, Amber Asylum, Worm Ouroboros) and tabla master Hom Nath Upadhyaya, which gives these songs lots of added depth.
But this being Om, it's first and foremost all about the riffs, and this album has some of the heaviest of any of their albums, with some moments of crushing heaviness that echoes with the monstrous sludge metal of Cisneros's old band Sleep. From the beginning, their pulsating bass/drum mantras slither and uncoil in perfect trance-inducing grooves, fleshed out with a larger variety of percussive sounds, opening the album not with the sound of a crashing drum kit but the processional rhythms of tabla drums and tambourines, summoning up a delirious aural trance on opener "Addis". But once this song drifts fully into oblivion, Om kick in with one of their heaviest songs in years, the crushing, sludge-drenched "State Of Non-Return"; opening with a harmonium-like wheeze, the band suddenly drops into a punishing distorted bass riff and stomping tempo that is he closest that I think I've ever heard this band come to fully evoking the Sleep sound. And somehow, this song just keeps getting heavier as it goes on, slipping into ever more crushing variations on the riff and on the groove; and then halfway through, it transforms into a stunning arrangement for cello, viola and violin that echoes that monstrous riff in a dreamy haze of chamber strings. Its a standout track from the band, one that I've come back to over and over. "Gethsemane" is more solemn, an expansive cinematic piece buzzing with tamboura tones and swirling with distant choral voices, sounding not unlike a Middle Eastern-tinged Goblin track; it also features the viola and cello drifting off into some killer solo action before brutally locking in to the same monstrous endless groove as the bass. "Sinai" follows as a companion piece, the band honed in laser-like on another mile-wide rhythmic groove, droning synths hovering above the lumbering riff while those haunting strings float in and out, accompanying the rhythm section in short dramatic bursts; an utter zone-out of major proportions. And closer "Haqq al-Yaqin" brings the tabla back for a massive shambling chant led by the sawtooth groan of the cello as it plays a killer, highly dramatic melodic figure, later taken over by the flute, shifting the song from varying shades of brooding, reverential throb.
Another terrific album of Om's serpentine, sacred psychedelia, with some of the band's most interesting permutations on their sound so far. © CRUCIAL BLAST
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