LP King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana - ATO rec. flt-028

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LP King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Flying Microtonal Banana - ATO rec. flt-028

LP   KING & THE LIZARD WIZARD Gizzard

Flying microtonal banana

Limited Edition goldblue-Splattered vinyl

Includes Free Download Coupon

Country of release: Czech Republic, 2017

Label: ATO/flightless

Catalogue number: FLT-028

Barcode: 880882286910

Gatefold / Gatefold Sleeve: Yes / No

Includes innersleeve & scratch and sniff stickers

 Condition Record: MINT

Condition Cover: Mint

  LP is still sealed / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!

(Photo from my own LP / Photo taken from my own copy)

Tracks Side 1:

1. Rattlesnake (7:48)

2. melting (5:27)

3. open water (7:13)

Tracks Side 2:

1. Sleep drifter (4:44)

2. Billabong Valley (3:34)

3. Anoxia (3:04)

4. City of doom (3:14)

5. nuclear fusion (4:15)

6 Flying microtonal banana (2:34)

On this sprawling new album, the Australian psych - rock band hoists its freak flag a few inches higher up the pole. It flutters in a more gentle breeze.
King gizzard & the lizard Wizard are a testament to the liberating power of giving yourself restrictions. Whether making every song on a record the exact same length (2015's quarters!), or constructing on entire album to connect into infinite loop (last Nonagon infinity year), the Aussie armada thrive on the symbiotic relationship between governing principles and disorder. The result is psychedelic rock that plays like a pin ball game-the action may be confined to at enclosed playing field, but it's always moving, ping ponging in unexpected directions and encouraging synapse overload.

The band's latest, reportedly, the first of five planning to pump album they're out this year-is likewise bound to a motif, though this one is as much sonic as structural. Flying microtonal banana what the product of gizzard king Stu Mackenzie acquiring a custom made guitar modified for microtonal tuning, which allows for intervals smaller than the semitones that govern Western music. And since the new guitar could only be played with similarly tuned instruments, he reportedly paid his bandmates $ 200 each to so get their gear tricked out with microtonal capabilities. Translation for those who do not hold a degree in music theory: Australia's wiggiest band has found a way to hoist its freak flag a few inches higher up the pole. But this time, it flutters in a more gentle breeze.

If the unrelenting Nonagon infinity turned rock 'n' roll into iron man competition, flying microtonal banana is that cool-down grace period your elliptical machine gives you after on hour's workout. While opener "rattlesnake" immediately reestablishes the preceding album's momentum motor skills, the pace is tempered more late-night cruise than rocket to the moon. But even as it maintains a steadier course, the changes in scenery are more dramatic-in between Mackenzie's chirpy verse about reptilian attacks, the song powers through a fog of stormy synths, staccato guitar pricks, and the brain-scrambling squawks of a Turkish horn-type instrument known as a zurna.

On Nonagon infinity, the action moved so fast that Mackenzie's words whizzed by like on out-of-control news ticker spitting out the haziest cosmic jive. He still drops randomly recurring melodies like a pull-string doll with a limited repertoire of phrasing, but flying microtonal banana's more relaxed vibe and greater sense of space put his words into sharper focus. As per psych-rock tradition, Mackenzie deals in surrealist imagery, though in this case, those images aren't the mere product of a chemically clouded mind. "Melting" combines rhythms from ' 70 s Nigeria with observations on the present-day Arctic ("toxic air is/here to scare US/fatal fumes from/melting ferrous"). "Open Water" channels anxieties over disappearing dawn into a marauding, seafaring fantasy epic, like on updated "immigrant song" for Vikings who drive their ships to new lands only discover they've been swallowed by rising ocean levels.

Flying microtonal banana peaks early with these extended odysseys, before giving way to more conventionally scaled rockers like "sleep Drifter," the rare Gizzard track that uses its Mana as the foundation for a herbal rockin' jam, rather than the other way around. But as the record rolls on, it starts to resemble on the FM dial spun awry. Flying microtonal banana blooze serves up letter of blasts southern of acidic of spaghetti-western balladry ("Billabong Valley'), ('Anoxia'), and gritty Afro-funk (" nuclear fusion ") that are connected only by the chaotic harmonica and zurna bursts that punctuate Mackenzie's musings. And it becomes finacial clear that the only difference between a three-minute King Gizzard track and a seven-minute one is where they arbitrarily decide to fade out (sometimes mid chorus). But if flying microtonal banana's randomized approach is ultimately less transfixing than Nonagon infinity's maniacal focus, it nonetheless shows that, after eight previous album, this band's creativity and curiosity knows no bounds, and their singular balance of anarchy and accessibility is still in check. So even if you don't understand the first thing about microtonality, there's still plenty of flying banana here to keep you amused. (Stuart Berman, March 25 2017/pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22925-flying-microtonal-banana)

Michael Cavanagh - drums, congas, percussion
Cook Craig - Micronotal guitar, Micronotal Bass guitar
Ambrose Kenny Smith - Micronotal-harmonica, vocals
Stu Mackenzie- Micronotal guitar, Micronotal Bass guitar, piano, Zurna, vocals, synthesizer, percussion
Eric Moore – drums, bongos
Lucas Skinner- Micronotal Bass guitar
Joey Walker -. Micronotal Guitar, Micronotal Bass guitar, vocals

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