Title: Magnolia
Artist: Weltraum
Genre: Psychedelic / Experimental
Release Date: 1st April 2009
Label: AreaDB (Bob Media)
Album Review
Let me take you into another world now with the album ‘Magnolia’ of the German collective WELTRAUM (=Space) that in its initial form has found together some time around 1999 and ever since the project tried to find the ultimate way to play sessions without any boundaries or restrictions. And the newest result of these sessions is the above mentioned album ‘Magnolia’ which is definitely some collection of challenging music and already the first piece on the disc being the title track also is a little improvisation over 14 minutes long opening up by slowly fading in the bass, djembe and spacey, echoing guitars while a didgeridoo blows through it time and time again. The drum work builds up piece by piece throughout and the guitars gain more strength in the progress. ‘Break It’ is the next Magnum Opus with a length of a good 10 minutes. A drum beat showing a slight relation to the drum’n’bass genre introduces the track and later on receives a free jazz styling showing the excellent capabilities of the band’s drummer.
If you really need a break now from all these exhausting, exuberant compositions you’ll gladly welcome ‘Leaving Astral Airport’ where the delay is above all doubling and tripling every sound may it be a vocal recording a drum fragment or even our well-known friend the didgeridoo. ‘The End Ending’ is not a soundtrack for Armageddon but as you’ll hear the most placid track on the record painting for your pleasure a sonic scenery of waves constantly crashing on the shore. You hear their soothing brawl and through the idyllic soundscape flying light guitar and bass chords and later, much later drums bring more structure and guitars even get a harder edge.
This is definitely no album to listen to while cooking or doing other kinds of stuff. It needs absolute attention though I understand that it might be hard looking at some of these overly long compositions. I think it’s no music for a wider audience; the approach is most likely too experimental for many people but you should give it an ear nonetheless to find out if that’s the case or not.
Tracklist
01. Magnolia - 14:49
02. Break It - 10:51
03. Leaving Astral Airport - 2:46
04. Canalize - 10:29
05. Drunken Eagle - 4:43
06. Ufo Voices - 1:29
07. End Ending - 16:37
08. Dubrocks - 7:24
Line-up
Hilton
Dora
Dennis
Tom
Uwe
Website
http://www.weltraum.tv/ / http://www.myspace.com/weltraum1
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 6
Sound: 7
Extras: -
Total: 6.5 / 10
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