Kermit "Litoral"

Country: Spain
Sub Genre: Instrumental Post Rock, Psychedelic, Avant Prog, Jazz-Rock
Label: Itaca Records
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: April 7, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. 1926 - 04:39
2. Samhain - 04:18
3. Circumpolares - 06:03
4. We tripantu - 04:49
5. Ingeborg - 03:59
6. Magnitizdat - 06:29
7. 1927 - 11:47

Line-up: 
Miguel Sugui
Gonzalo Presa
Paco Trujillo
Alvaro Parada

Description/Reviews: 

The album title is a tribute to the poetry magazine Litoral founded in Malaga in 1926. There are multiple literary and poetical references throughout the music, including excerpts from Allen Ginsberg’s beat generation poem Howl and George Orwell’s rant on the media’s toxic self-destruction. ... The music is all instrumental intercut with various literary narrations. Much of the music reminds me of Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Bill Laswell’s Material, and possibly Djam Karet. The first six tracks are in the four to six minute range, but the closing track “1927” is almost 12 minutes long. There is a break in the music before “1927” and it begins as a quiet ambient piece with cymbals and saxophone, which reminds me of that bluesy jazz interlude in Bladerunner. Midway through, the music swells to a Godspeed! climax and then ebbs to whispered voices and builds again to a second climax at almost nine minutes. The music recesses again and there is some Spanish narration for a bit and then the music just fades away to conclude the album. Litoral is quite an emotional and tender experience and an excellent second release.

Read the full review by Henry Schneider at expose.org

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