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HIROSHIMA YEAH!, Issue 33, November
2007
REALLY LONG SONGS! Don’t ya just LOVE ‘em?! “Sister
Ray” by the Velvets, “Cortez the Killer” by Neil
Young, “Grendel” by Marillion (no, SERIOUSLY! That one’s
BRILLIANT too!) This new CD-R release by Yanky popsters 9 On Bali
(this time around comprising the three Dans, Susnara, Sweigert and
Van Schindel, alongside Pat Hamilton, Jim Molina and “special
guest” Jah Lowman on congas) is a single 26 MINUTE LONG track
which sounds a bit like an outtake from one of Genesis’ early
albums. It’s tough, tender and sonically adventurous as it
wends its way from gentle ripples of piano to cathartic bursts of
orchestration and guitar, sweet harmonies floating over the top
of it all like mist on a frozen lake at dawn. The ambient section
that comes in at around the 10-minute mark is LOVELY, bringing to
mind John Martyn’s sublime “Small Hours”, no less.
Prog-tastic!
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