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Howlin' Magic
The Dreaming LAL LAL LAL CD
The Dreaming gives 12 high intesity doses of Californian Jesse Rakusin's solo psych screams. Like a Daniel Higgs who can only operate in fifth gear, Rakusin tries to channel magick and ancestral wisdom through his fuzz-saturated, thrashed out explosions of guitar melody. Many of these pieces access an unfettered politicised rage, like a primitivist take on Jimi Hendrix's version of "The Star-Spangled Banner". When Rakusin fills out the solo sound by accompanying himself, the drumming, hazy and unfocused, makes you think of a mid-breakdown Skip Spence. Yet the woozy gravity of the blues rock shapes keeps them from drifting into self-absorbed chaos. -
the wire 291 may 2008, pg.65 review by Sam Davies in the avant-rock section
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A while ago Lal Lal Lal Records sent me a collection of albums wrapped up in a newspaper/comicbook. Sadly the comicbook was all in Finnish so I have not been able to read it. I have, however, finally listened to the music and excellent it is too. Readers of the Terrascope On-Line may be familiar with Howling Magic, as he donated a track to the TEA Party Benefit CD-R. This track appears with 11 others on "The Dreaming", a distinctly noisy set of guitar pieces, smeared with feedback and drowned in effects. Also featuring maimed drums, the music does slow down sometimes, as demonstrated on the excellent "Shaman". With all the songs between 2 and 4 minutes in length there is no time to get bored, the music sounding like a drunken Blue Cheer trapped in a tin shack, and that's a compliment. " - Simon Lewis, Terrascopic Rumbles May 2008