Friday 24 July 2015

There are times when I don't just get ideas....

Crippled Black Phoenix and Se Delan have just released Oh' Echoes but as Se Delan are a duo of current and ex members of CBP it's really just a Crippled Black Phoenix record

Consisting of just 2 tracks of 20 minutes each it's a homage to Pink Floyd.
It's the first track (part 1) that I don't understand.... If you're going to do a cover of Echoes
it needs to be different enough to be worthwhile. The music is well played and the band obviously have a love of Floyd but what's the point?

Part 2 is more interesting - a mix of Echoes, another Floyd song Childhood End (from the Obscured By Clouds album) and a bizarre blast of The Telstar's Tornado !
This is much better as the song twists and turns over the 20 minutes and unlike the straight cover in Part 1 you don't know where it's going

A flawed idea at best but with some redeeming music...

(The unpleasant comments aimed at an ex guitarist at the bottom of the Bandcamp page leave a bad taste though....)

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