Release Date: 04 April 2020
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6430050665869
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal Stoner Rock
Release Date: 04 April 2020
Label: Svart Records
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 6430050665883
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal Stoner Rock
Description
Like an Anatolian fever dream, Blaak Heat engulfs your mind in images of mystic castle mirages, slamming body and soul into an ocean of reverb fuzz. Blaak Heat's "Mojave soundtracks" rest upon a rich history of musical tradition, drawing from the Middle East as naturally as from Californian deserts and beaches, with one foot still firmly rooted in the streets of Paris.
The end result is a timeless, vivid blend of thundering psychedelic rock and Arabian tonalities, an altar to heavy riffage, mind expansion, and social insurgencies.Blaak Heat are an avant-garde Parisian-American psych rock trio, now signed esteemed and unorthodox leftfield label Svart Records (Oranssi Pazuzu, Beastmilk, Opium Warlords).
Formed in Paris by guitarist/singer Thomas Bellier (ex-Spindrift) in 2008, Blaak Heat relocated to Los Angeles in 2012 with drummer Mike Amster and bassist Tom Davies (formerly of psych mavericks Nebula). Dropping the former name of Blaak Heat Shujaa, they became more primal, more indigenous and expanded the Eastern influence by incoorperating more traditional instruments and using percussionist Nelson Bragg (The Brian Wilson Group) to embellish the developing sound.Shifting Mirrors is an album that is as intriguing as it is perilously unrelenting. By exploring a range of tonalities, tempos, and traditional soundscapes, Blaak Heat are able to traverse a number of musical territories. The lead track from the album, "Sword of Hakim" demonstrates the best of the band's unruly, bludgeoning guitar tone whilst also creating a technically composite and solid rhythmic approach, which brutally rolls out, leaving the listener feeling transcended.While Shifting Mirrors comes from the area where bands like Kyuss and Sleep have sprung up from, Blaak Heat is a different kind of desert dweller. By looking into Bellier's melting pot of global psychedelia one can hear echoes of Amon Duul II, John Zorn, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Magma. as well as old school hard rock and surf such as Captain Beyond and Dick Dale.
Description
Like an Anatolian fever dream, Blaak Heat engulfs your mind in images of mystic castle mirages, slamming body and soul into an ocean of reverb fuzz. Blaak Heat's "Mojave soundtracks" rest upon a rich history of musical tradition, drawing from the Middle East as naturally as from Californian deserts and beaches, with one foot still firmly rooted in the streets of Paris.
The end result is a timeless, vivid blend of thundering psychedelic rock and Arabian tonalities, an altar to heavy riffage, mind expansion, and social insurgencies.Blaak Heat are an avant-garde Parisian-American psych rock trio, now signed esteemed and unorthodox leftfield label Svart Records (Oranssi Pazuzu, Beastmilk, Opium Warlords).
Formed in Paris by guitarist/singer Thomas Bellier (ex-Spindrift) in 2008, Blaak Heat relocated to Los Angeles in 2012 with drummer Mike Amster and bassist Tom Davies (formerly of psych mavericks Nebula). Dropping the former name of Blaak Heat Shujaa, they became more primal, more indigenous and expanded the Eastern influence by incoorperating more traditional instruments and using percussionist Nelson Bragg (The Brian Wilson Group) to embellish the developing sound.Shifting Mirrors is an album that is as intriguing as it is perilously unrelenting. By exploring a range of tonalities, tempos, and traditional soundscapes, Blaak Heat are able to traverse a number of musical territories. The lead track from the album, "Sword of Hakim" demonstrates the best of the band's unruly, bludgeoning guitar tone whilst also creating a technically composite and solid rhythmic approach, which brutally rolls out, leaving the listener feeling transcended.While Shifting Mirrors comes from the area where bands like Kyuss and Sleep have sprung up from, Blaak Heat is a different kind of desert dweller. By looking into Bellier's melting pot of global psychedelia one can hear echoes of Amon Duul II, John Zorn, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Magma. as well as old school hard rock and surf such as Captain Beyond and Dick Dale.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Wigwam
Tuohi Klang
Wigwam
Cynic
Heikki Sarmanto
Cynic
Necropsy
Pestigore
Kahfa
Bozoo
Vast Pyre
Qilin
Slomatics
Slomatics
Meifu
Fear The Beards
