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Krom Lek - "Psychedelic Dot Krom

This release from Krom Lek provides us with a huge array of neo-psychedelic festival style tracks. They play the old-school style of psychedelic space rock jamming in the vein of the eighties/nineties free festival bands. I have never seen this band live and really wish I could (presuming they are still playing the summer festival circuit). Out of most of the bands that are left in this genre, these still seem to be going strong. This music is top-notch and I am really surprised that I had not come across this band before.

Most of the album has that mystical and spiritual quality and theme of pagan music running through it. Think of the Nik Turner stuff from Hawkwind's Stonehenge '84 (This is Hawkwind - Do Not Panic) album, most of the later Gong free-form glissando jams and the religious fanaticism of Oroonies with the vocal style of Dr Brown and dip it all again in a bucketload of LSD and you have Krom Lek.

The music ranges from tranquil and blissful to frenetic and shamanic to appease the worm god Crom Cruach and the triple goddess. We just have to go through the portal to reach their world. Other tracks are like cosmic voyages into the unknown, others are just solid ska-beat/dub tracks for moshing to.

Krom Lek are psychedelic festival freaks of the highest calibre. No one dies forever in the Krom Lek. Its habitants shall live eternally.

Oz Hardwick - Astro Zombie