Odd Clouds

Odd Clouds [VINYL]

Label: QBICO Country: Italy

"Well, if this band were here I WOULD be surrounded, since there are 8 members ! ODD CLOUDS is a project lead by Chris Pottinger and Jamie Easter and their album is a new QBICO release. This is some really way out and propulsive free-form music, all presented on a wild picture disc of "bad trip" art by Chris and Jamie. The art has scary intestine creatures looming on Side A, and a poor fella that seems to have sprouted tubes from many of his appendages, along with having a few eyes shooting out of his left eye socket on it's "B" side. I hate when I feel like that ! It's quite unsettling, but well designed and probably clues you in to how mad these sounds are on the vinyl. The music is a bit like Smegma but without the use of any cut-ups or much electronics. Here they use, among other things, guitar, sax (and/or some kind of horn), and voice. This is an organic miasma of throbs and groans...none of which overstays it's welcome. Here, what sounds like the rites of Cthulu at the Mountains Of Madness, is the order of the day. I mean this stuff sounds like someone just about to lose their mind...but it's so damned good in that sense ! Ahhh , that "thin piping sound" Mr. Lovecraft so often wrote of. Is it the call of the "old ones" or is that just your mind going off ? But it's not a bad thing,...don't get me wrong here. Relax your mind and float downstream.....is it not dying ? (Yes, I did mis-quote that ON PURPOSE!) This is music for those of us that like the darker side of psychedelic free form sounds....like Brast Burn,Taj Mahal Travellers or good ol' Smegma. This has it's own angle on that bunch...but if you dig any of the before mentioned bands, you should love this. Another fine and wild release by QBICO. yum !"-psychatrone myspace