If this AOTY entry is the following album - Coventry Cathedral (The Original Film Soundtrack / Live from Coventry Cathedral) - then I award it 88.
https://youtu.be/-XoYkW6cEDU?si=ekxDmj7WZBv3Jder
DARK MAGUS is underrated, very much so. I'm not sure why, because it packs a punch like Jack Johnson. When I listen to it, I always think I can hear Hendrix's indelible presence.
When I was a "terrible teenager" listening to Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Cream, The Doors, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, et al, The Berlin School, Krautrock, and Mahavishnu Orchestra, my father bought me GET UP WITH IT, a double album of Miles Davis. It was a clever though somewhat flawed ploy to ... read more
First collaboration between Epoch Collapse and Black Cactus.
Black Cactus wrote: -
I am excited to release a very special collaboration made with a long-time colleague, the immensely talented Epoch Collapse. A rewarding insight into combining contrasting but heavily overlapping music textures, differing creative technologies and the vast geographical distances between us. This began as an investigative project to combine our unique styles and practices and equally to disrupt our own set points ... read more
Second collaboration between Epoch Collapse and Black Cactus.
With “Necropolis Webs”, Epoch Collapse and Black Cactus take off from where the “Machinic Maelstrom” took us. This time, leaving no harmony untethered, every remnant of melody eviscerated, shredded and smudged, leaving behind nothing but an unhinged mire of ragged and bleak dread. The winter months were spent foraging and honing our demented craft with garage recordings, suspension springs, wrecked keyboards ... read more
Shapeshifting galaxies...
Shipwrecked astronaut...
In a galaxy near you.
Available on Bandcamp
https://epochcollapse.bandcamp.com/album/galactic-counterpoints




