Wednesday 7 March 2012

Savaging Spires - Savaging Spires

Looking For Weird

There’s little information to be found on this band, apart from those who note that there's little information to be found on this band. You’d imagine this general mystique is the product of some planned promotional obfuscation, but such industry manufacturing would seem anathema to the psychedelically amorphous nature of the music.

This has the acid folk resonance of any one of those countless esoteric soundtracks from the 60s and 70s where musically inspired communes and cults recorded themselves communing with whatever they chose to attain through chant, repetition, strummed acoustic guitar, single tinged bell, recorder, harmonium and vocal declaratives/yearnings/questions from whoever feels like interjecting at that particular point.

Or it was recorded as the troupe trooped through the woods, dancing with their instruments and letting the natural ambiance orchestrate the direction of the song and singing.

That probably sounds more sardonic than intended because the overall effect of this is quite addictive, in the way taking a hallucinogen can be.

Opening track Bending The Rules of Time has a fairly conventional melodic line sung in sweet if brief harmony, but it’s pretty damn hard to single out a single track as there is little attempt at melody, in the sense of defining a tune in most, though final track Seconds in Motion with its banjo plucks, train-wail guitar strains, object-tapped percussion and rhetorical chant what is it you are looking for can perhaps act as a template for the whole in its self-referencing quest for an answer.

I quite like it, in a weird liking weird way.

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