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Amorphous Androgynous - A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Vol 2 – Pagan Love Vibrations
Swirling psych sweetmeats to bridge your mind gap
To paraphrase the old Carlsberg ads, this is probably the best nightclub in the world. For the uninitiated, Amorphous Androgynous is Future Sound Of London’s Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans in untrammelled synapse-searing psychedelic guise, rolling up their wizard sleeves and alchemising what has to be the ultimate transcendental inner space mix CD: a free-falling “journey to the centre of the mind”, as the Amboy Dukes would have it.
Cobain and Dougans have flawless taste in realitydissolving source material: archaeological finds from the likes of Jean-Claude Vannier, July, The Ultimate Spinach and Faust rub foreheads with neophytes such as Cranium Pie, Holy Fuck, Dungen and Animal Collective. It’s the artful and considered assemblage of these priceless pieces, however, that really impresses; particularly on Disc One, wherein the archly disembodied voice of Vincent Price provides suitably quizzical, gnomic links.
Disc Two maintains the weightless flow of its precursor, while finding space for some more biting, turbulent and frenetic elements (Frankenstein by The Edgar Winter Group, Mulberg by Shogun Kunitoki). Amorphous Androgynous themselves round out the experience with the plangent sitars of High Tide On The Sea Of Flesh, by which time you should have been gratefully reduced to a tranquil puddle of otherness.
Platipus | PLATCD 215 (2-CD)
Reviewed by Marco Rossi
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