TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS - AUGUST 1974 - 180GM DOUBLE LP
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TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS - AUGUST 1974 - 180GM DOUBLE LP
LP MINT (SEALED), MADE IN UK
PLEASE NOTE THIS ALBUM IS PRESSED ON 180GM VIRGIN VINYL
A I 19:48 B II 21:27 C III 23:27 D IV 23:27
Yes, it's easy to describe what's being done for over 80 minutes worth of music, and yet, when it comes to describing just why this album is so righteously awesome, the right words just can't be found. Though the style of music is totally different, on one level this album is strongly reminiscent of Miles Davis' On the Corner. At any given time, there aren't really that many instruments playing, but if you pay attention you start to notice that an instrument will appear in the mix, hang around for a few minutes then fade out just as delicately as it originally appeared, contributing a texture or color to the sound without altering the overall mood. After a while, though, you might notice that none of the instruments that were playing 20 minutes ago are still playing. The overall mood and quality of the sound moves similarly, changing slowly and subtly but hitting a few fairly distinctive areas over the course of the album. My favorite passage happens about a third of the way through the second track, where the layered wordless voices and dulcimer-like Japanese folk instruments reach a soaring, epic swell. The third track has some pretty awesome primal percussion/synth jams, and the fourth has a lot of delay-treated violin. This is one of my favorite mood-centric albums--the overall feeling is mysterious, cathartic, and at times pretty weird. While it's pretty moody, it's not really too dark, and it functions equally well as a meditative soundtrack as it does for close-listening. The emphasis on shifting texture, the change between spaciousness and thick soundscapes, and especially the sound-exaltation that's possible when you really lose yourself in the timbre of the droning instruments offers an experience unlike a lot of mainstream music, but at the same time fairly accessible. It's not quite as sonically-challenging as the less-repetitious and more freely-atonal works of a group like AMM, but this (and their strongly-recommended first album) demonstrate that experiments with free improvisation can deliver widely differing but similarly rewarding results.
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