Here’s a refreshing new release in its freshening up of
psyche echoes, leaning to the folkier tilt at the windmills of minds, sweet
vocal harmonies with female voices carrying – as on second Speak to the Lady – some wah-wah in the guitar and naïve piano in
what I mean as a lo-fi remove from the simply polished.
There’s folk guitar heading up third Astray that could be Pentangle until the drawl of the Texas vocal
joins in, a geography I take from its Facebook postings where one of the most
recent is a Portuguese review of this fine album. And back to that song: it
pans out to a more raucous affair, little hints of Eric Burdon in the
instrumentation, so a sound if variable lineage picked up by this hearing.
Astral Blue is Rex Pape - Guitar, Vocals; Oscar Favian -
Bass, Vocals; Brittany Garza - Hammond, Rhodes, Vocals; Chris Nuñez - Drums,
Percussion, and that’s about as much as I can find, except to add that Soft Earth is a wonderful psyche-rock-in-a-storm
track where the Hammond provides a canopy of musical history. I like the instrumental jam on this too. And the segue into closer Moon Door.
Get it here.
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