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MV & EE - Ragas Of The Culvert / Total Loss Songs

MV & EE - Ragas Of The Culvert / Total Loss Songs

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Three Lobed Recordings - LP
US, 2008
Psychedelic Rock / Avant-Garde / Experimental

Another release by Matt Valentine, this time as a duo with Erika Elder. Eerie psychedelism and raga-like ambient. Sleep paralysis material from the mid-00's and a superb artwork this time, unlike this one... Obviously recalling Laraaji, but in a much more pensive and much less optimistic way.

Freely inspired by Indian classical music, the aim of the record is quite obvious: to translate into music one's experience of feverish dreams. And it achieves its goal. It's a very simple record, not trying to change the course of a long history of US psychedelia, but it offers genuinely introspection-igniting music.

I wouldn't call it meditative, as I feel this adjective is mostly affixed to calming, blue skies-kind of ambient music. Ragas Of The Culvert / Total Loss Songs is not exactly that. It's eerie, heavily clouded music, and not relaxing/calming/soothing, at least not in the neo-liberal self-care way we mostly referred too. But it's definitely a great album to ponder on the ineffable chaos we're living in.


Tracklist

  1. Rural Sa
  2. You Matter
  3. Feedback
  4. Dream Sa
  5. Rural Pa
  6. Raag Getto, Again And Again

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