Et Cetera's self-titled LP is the first album under this respective alias, and the second album by Wolfgang Dauner, whose project formerly went by Wolfgang Dauner Group. They are a talented group using many exotic instruments that blend together in a way that seems somehow chaotically organized.
A1 - Thursday Morning Sunrise
A2 - Lady Blue
A3 - Mellodrama 2a
B1 - Raga
B2 - Milkstreets
There's a variety of instruments used in this album, which are unfortunately uncredited. From the start you can hear the strange guitar-like instrument played by Dauner, whose existence I've been able to ascertain from the live footage. Thursday Morning Sunrise is challengingly atonal, going in and out of a coherent meter. The drum playing I think is very remarkable, creating strange shapes with a sense of rhythm I can only compare to experimental jazz drumming. Lady Blue is a well written psychedelic spoken word accompanied by a haunting chorus.
After that theres a relatively brief interlude of the more conventional jam 'Mellodrama 2a' before jumping into the second epic 'Raga.' Less chaotic and more spacious than Thursday Morning Sunrise, it features even more wide an array of exotic instruments and percussion with a sitar that ties everything together. The album closes with the altogether meter-less Milkstreets, showcasing more of the drummer's dynamic rhythmic abilities.
Although the music doesn't go far beyond the realm of what appears to be mostly pure spontaneity, Et Cetera's self-titled release is wonderfully strange.They are talented musicians whose dynamic abilities with straddling the line between order and chaos are sufficiently interesting for the duration of this LP. 8/10
No comments:
Post a Comment