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OM
Conference of Birds
2006 / Holy Mountain Records
http://www.holymountain.com/om/
Listen to previews: http://www.mp3.com/albums/20098238/summary.html
Rise aviators son will follow the first lines of the new OM album, from Chris Haikus and Al Cisneros, the rhythm section of the legendary doom band Sleep. As with Sleep’s Dope Smoker, this album contains two long songs, hypnotic, dark undertones, songs of underworlds.
At Giza, the first song, starts as a meditative pulse. Bas and drums slowly pushing the words through the haze of thick smoke. Reminiscent of early Pink Floyd work. Imagine if Pink Floyd’s Echoes played just the base and drums. You can kind of get a picture of what these guys are all about. Not hippy music at all. Nothing sunny and happy about this music, it is just played in a very subtle way. Before you know it, you are inside the music, the world they create in a dark bliss of vision. At 15:55 long minutes a journey that takes you to side 2, a more heavy world that doesn’t simply allow you to submerge into it. It demands. Drums and bass this time like a stone pulling you under the music. Reminding us more the their previous band Sleep, OM creates a simpler fit than kill it, repeat it, make it part of the listeners mind. This time it is all about the rock, like Sunno or Earth creating an almost drone like space for the worlds to live in this time, to take flight, as the song title suggests, “Flight of the Eagle”. With lyrics such as “transverse champion field rises out from the red sun” you can see where these guys stand. So if you only have a short attention span this is not for you. But if you are will to sit, listen and let music take you for a ride then sit back and let the newest offering from OM wash over you.
Review by:
Chris Speer
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