Maher shalal hash haze
Noel Power | Paddington, nsw Australia | 07/17/2000
(4 out of 5 stars)
"What can you say about such truly bent grandeur? Not much, but I'll try. Imagine early Pink Floyd jamming with some obscure japanese artist (Kan Mikami?) produced by Brian Wilson at his most unhinged. Not wanting to categorise this in retro terms, but there's something about this group's unhinged vision that makes me hark back to the golden era of psychedelia. Tori Kudo and his various cohorts have put together a collection of music which bridges the folk-rock-psychedelic-improv divide in ways that few others (if any) have before them. This is a beatiful, at times irritating but overall stiumulating and compelling collection of songs. If YaHoWah 13, Sun Ra, Daniel Johnson mean anything to you, then you will levitate to this mystical groove..."