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Below The Radar 14

Track 6

"Bells"

from the release Kogumaza

Label statement:

Kogumaza formed in Nottingham in 2009. They use primitive rhythms, patterns and riffs to create dense, mesmeric song-cycles. The band’s live sound is manipulated through dub delays and echoes, allowing what is basically a rock trio (2 guitars and a pared-down drum kit) to expand and willingly lose control of the sound they make as they make it, moving deeper and deeper in to the core of the song as opposed to exploding in all directions out of it.

The resulting music marries fuzzed-out psychedelia to an ambient aesthetic, placing the band somewhere between the infinite repetition of Moondog, the thick gloop of Master Of Reality-era Sabbath and the hypnotic pulse of Lungfish.

The featured track comes from their debut album from 2011, reissued in July 2013 by the Low Point label.

low-point.com
honeyisfunny.com/kogumaza

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