From Word To Flesh – a colourful and multi-faceted creation very much befitting the outsider spirit of Rocket’s new Black Hole imprint. Drawing on a broad canvas of influences, its more personal approach has heralded a collection of vibrant mantras driven by ritualistic abandon and rich with psychotropic radiance.
This is clear right from the curtain raiser ‘Burn From Inside’, which beams the emotive approach of the band through the shamanic prism of Coil’s Ape Of Naples. From there, hypnotic repetition marries to abstract abrasion (as on ‘A Cage Full Of Sins’) and mournful laments (‘Before You Leave’) with equal finesse, as redolent of the spiritual zest of Popol Vuh and Ash Ra Tempel as the gnostic folk of Six Organs Of Admittance. Elsewhere ‘A Symmetry Of Faith’ summons a union of post-punk and psychically charged folk aligned with the recent work of Bristol’s Beak, whilst on the fearsome treatise ‘Son Of Myself’ the band invokes the final speech of Werner Herzog’s Aguirre – The Wrath Of God.
See Mamuthones live:
30 April / IT / Verona / Colorificio Kroen
01 May / IT / Montagnana / Bahnhof Live
03 May / IT / Padova / Circolo Nadir
08 May / IT / Macerata / La Gramaccia
09 May / IT / Roma / 30 Formiche
29 Aug / IT / Padova / Arcellabella
01 Oct / UK / Manchester / The Rat and Pigeon
03 Oct / UK / London / The Old Church
This is what Alessio from Mamuthones says about the track:
“The lives of sinners are decidedly more interesting than those of pious souls and more often feature a more authentic faith. To support this claim are crazy synths, a fingerpicking guitar and an impossible rhythm full of percussion.”
The album is available to buy via this link below or from your favourite UK/Italian indie record shop. All Black Hole Series LPs come on black vinyl with hand numbered obi strips.
From Word To Flesh is ltd to only 350 copies. You can order the album HERE.
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