Arrington de Dionyso, Malaikat Dan Singa
Arrington de Dionyso , Malaikat Dan Singa [K Records]
» Welcome to the soundtrack to the reincarnated body of William Burroughs tripping balls in Tangier.
While you are here, let me also welcome you to an album you may not really "get" upon first try (Christ knows I didn't), but after a few close listens to the latest output from the gentleman who brought us happiness that is (was?) Old Time Relijun, I'm convinced that this is an album I needed.
Sure, I'll concede that statement to be completely arbitrary, and maybe absolutely unnecessary to this review, so I will take it one step further and say that you, my dear reader, need this album. Why? Because it challenges you to look past de Dionyso singing what he says maybe "poems of William Blake and passages from the Zohar" in a tongue that you might not understand if you haven't spent much time in Jakarta, and once you can get past that, you realize this is a pretty brilliant, and extremely layered album.
At some points sounding something like a lo-fi take on Reggaeton with lyrics being chanted by a mad maharishi, and at others the middle earth between Sublime Frequencies globetrotting and James Chance no-wave freak out. It's Sunn O))) drone raga via saxophone that you may be able to shake a tail feather to, and it is bound to scare your neighbors if you turn it up loud enough.
Posted on November 09, 2009
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