Shelter & Orion With Turner Williams Jr – Krakatoa
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Label: Les Disques Omnison – OMNISON09, Protopost (2) – PRPO6105 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: France Released: 3 Jan 2025 Genre: Electronic, Rock, Folk, World, & Country Style: Experimental, Avantgarde, Ambient
Freshly harvested psychotropic musical seances from the fertile Parisian underbelly on recent Tabi Tapes alumni Tom Val’s Les Disques Omnison outpost.
Cooked up across two in Shelter’s 121 Studio, the duo ditch the krautish Europe-Endless space rock of 2024’s hit ‘Here’s Where You Understand It’s Only Dreaming’ and invite label mate Turner Williams Jr in for something altogether amorphous and exotic. Undoubtably this is either music conceived and recorded in the presence of drugs or intended to be enjoyed around the same. It’s a cross-cultural collision of pagan sound rites and the oriental gaze. Electrified tablas, distant nose flutes, soaring bagpipes, doomed-out guitar chords and innumerate other unidentified musical titbits are buried deep within the hallucinogenic mulch. Anyone who managed to catch Tom Val’s mixtape last week will know that this crew is well-schooled in the creme de la creme of underground avantgarde - Hassell’s 4th world trips, Don Cherry, those killer Lori Vambe records, Terry Riley’s Shri Carmel, NWW, Kosugi + co, French Demi-god Pierre Jean Croset or current-days Tanz Mein Herz crew. They all feel very relevant and at the root of all this, but this is also the sound of 3 hardcore weirdos letting loose and having fun. (Mint / New - not many copies so 1 per person pls!!).
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Recorded during two sessions at Shelter's Studio 121, the trio carved out this heavily psyched post-ancient LP which they later decided to call Krakatoa. The title was not choose for a hint of any kind of orientalism, but to evoke a total freeness, a deep dive into the furnace of a volcano that comes to mind when listening to the record. Even if it also reveals elements of pan-traditionalism, with a mixture of electronic tablas, dub delays, deep flutes, bagpipes organ (?!), and of course Turner's electric shahi baaja; these elements are much more twisted into an alien-eerie to the core than use to evoke a "West meets East" connotation. With common inspiration taken from Jon Hassell, Don Cherry (especially his late work with Latif Khan), Leven Signs, Pierre-Jean Croset, Terry Riley, John Fahey, the trio managed to produce music that is of its time and quite incomparable. Far from being a tribute to their masters, they continue the legacy of plugged-in weirdo fourth dimension dreamy jams.
Tracklist A1 Sacsayhuaman 8:26 A2 Le Sacre Des Lucioles 8:35 A3 Solastalgie 5:45 B1 Krakatoa 10:44 B2 Le Communiste Nu 9:56
