Recommended track(s) if you like: Mahavishnu Orchestra
Ahleuchatistas - "Future Trauma (Excerpt #1)" - Full Length = 7:07
Elongated guitar tones overlap like a Jimi Hendrix hornet’s nest, while the drums provide an almost impressionistic commentary throughout, until they turn propulsive and start challenging the guitar for domination and the whole thing turns into a firefight.
Ahleuchatistas - "Vanished (Excerpt #1)" - Full Length = 3:01
Percussive, staccato riffs burst forth, sounding something like a cross between electric guitar and oud, backed by percussion that alternately keeps pace with the speedy riffs and creates a clattering textural framework around them.
Present - "Samana (Excerpt #1)" - Full Track = 9:19
A playful, episodic piece that begins with a vaguely Latin beat and some jazzy interplay between the two keyboards before moving through several other tempos, moods and styles.
Present - "Ersatz (Excerpt #1)" - Full Track = 5:08
A tart but toe-tapping contrapuntal piece for percussion, piano, guitar and bass.
Present - "Promenade Au Fond D'un Canal (Excerpt #3)" - Full Track = 19:21
A long, dramatic piece, opening with a quiet but haunting bass ostinato before seguing into a series of interlocking, suspenseful and sometimes percussive riffs for guitar, keyboards, bass and percussion. A wailing electric guitar ends this mesmerizing but vaguely unsettling piece.
Present - "Vous Le Saurez En Temps Voulu (Excerpt #1)" - Full Track = 10:34
Foreboding keyboards establish an elusive, chromatically unstable melody before the ensemble joins in with a kind of lurching, macabre march -- which eventually accelerates into a hypnotic frenzy before slowing to a pensive close.
Present - "Dense (Excerpt #1)" - Full Track = 9:55
Dramatic, intricate, sometimes rapid-fire riffing from the ensemble, with soaring lead from electric guitar, growling, ominous electric bass and a powerful closing. Highly evocative.
Present - "Quatre-vingt Douze (Excerpt #1)" - Full Track = 15:39
A long piece which alternates, after a quiet ominous beginning, between astringent lyricism from the two pianos and stabbing, percussive drama from the ensemble of bass, percussion and keyboards.
Present - "Promenade Au Fond D'un Canal (Excerpt #1)" - Full Track = 19:21
A long, dramatic piece, opening with a quiet but haunting bass ostinato before seguing into a series of interlocking, suspenseful and sometimes percussive riffs for guitar, keyboards, bass and percussion. A wailing electric guitar ends this mesmerizing but vaguely unsettling piece.
Thinking Plague - "Malthusian Dances (Excerpt #1)" - full track= 6:39
Cross-rhythms in unusual time signatures crash across the core of the track like a series of waves breaking on a beach, while staccato bursts from guitar, piano, and clarinet carry on a conversation that shifts from dramatic to cartoonish and back again at the drop of a hat, and an oddly calm-sounding female voice floats through it all. [Tempo: Mid-tempo]
