Following in the footsteps that were
featured on The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper and The Rolling Stones’ Satanic Majesties
Request, Steven Gunn, who’s probably the best guitarist no one has ever heard
of, and drummer John Truscinski step back a bit in time, conjuring up the fuzzy
heady other worldly psychedelic sounds that were so new and alien back in the
mid 60’s … and sent many searching for the Raga Road in India, North Africa,
Bali, and even Ethiopia.

Though, bearing this in mind, Gunn and
Trucinski take their cues from American traditional blues, folk, jazz,
country-rock, and those psychedelic influences that that inspired the legendary
Sandy Bull … creating hypnotic meanderings that move flawlessly within each
song, incorporating all of the genres, and creating something that is uniquely
their own, unexpected, and totally enchanting. 
The lo-fi intoxicating songs build slowly, shifting and morphing, like
the sun that a moment ago was just peaking over the horizon, and is suddenly
there in all its wondrous splendor.  The
music is very involved, thick, atmospheric in a sense, and all encompassing,
moving to a set of rules you don’t necessarily follow, but are swept away with,
like some secret language you intuitively understand.

The duo sound as if they’re jamming, and in
some instances I’m more than sure they are, sounding like a full on band
trading ideas and grooves on the run, ideas that are totally mesmerizing …
delivering eight minute musical sagas that will take you exactly where you want
to be.

The album’s been released on vinyl with a
limited edition of 750, but the downloads will do you just fine.

Review made by Jenell Kesler / 2012

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