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ELEPHANT9 - Walk the Nile

Name: ELEPHANT9 – Walk the Nile
Item: Walk the Nile
Rating: 6
Author: Marco Sgrignoli

2010 (Rune Grammofon)

jazz-rock

by Marco Sgrignoli

Jazz-rock, and the heavy, fuzzed-out kind at that. A no-frills mix of Hammond, e-piano, seriously pumped-up bass and lo-fi drums – the essential basement-show touch needed to make an essentially prog record, and a rather anachronistic one at that, palatable to an indie audience. There are some great muscular grooves, some fine psych/dark moments somewhere between Hawkwind and Amon Düül; the best moments, however, come when the impro flow heads down the oblique paths of Soft Machine's “Third” and scatters it into dark, magmatic rarefactions, a hair's breadth from Supersilent.

The second album by Norway's Elephant9, “Walk The Nile” is rarely a thrilling listen, but it's undoubtedly engaging. And pleasantly retro.

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03/05/2010

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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Marco Sgrignoli, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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