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sh-man-tra: Cornucopia (CD, 67:37); Cranium Music CRM003

	These guys cover a wide sonic spectrum from electronic meanderings to what I call 
�alternative angst grunge prog�. I sense that very early, experimental Pink Floyd on track one, 
with voice-overs and random synth acoustica. Saucerful of Secrets, perhaps? Percussion 
builds, reverby, distorted, underwater guitars are layered in with more analogish synth spurtings. 
Things never seem to go anywhere for 8:30 then for 2:15 some sense of a song occurs. It is one 
heck of a long opener to set the scene. Next 9:00 track is more spartan on effects but adds vocals, 
echoed distant shouts,  overdriven guitars, and a sprinkling of ethereal synth strings. I guess some 
folks might call this a distant cousin to spacerock jam.
	Track three, �Guinii�, finally got around to kicking up the dust with monster guitars and 
bass warped into a distant black hole�s event horizon. Yeah! Alas, only 4:14 of such. On the next 
few tracks things get whacked again with weird synths, infinite-repeat guitar patterns, bongo-tom 
drumming, reverby riffs, and such for about 4:00 and then lazy-hip-cool vocals slide in with 
outbursts of big-grunge-guitar refrains and then a big-noise-distortion-heaven, Band of Susans 
finale after 10:07 or so.
	More similar guitar meander-jams follow for the next three tracks. They each work slowly 
through wide-open-spaces, simple guitar amblings, and progress to assorted �big-finish�, 
crescendo complexities. Last track breaks the pattern with vocals in a balladic, folk-rock dirge. 
Very �70s guys. A bit of Buddhist monk, infrasonic, deep-bellows chanting adds interest too. I 
suppose this is neo-psychedelia-avant garde-grunge prog. Truly a bizarre journey on this 
disc -- I remain puzzled. What just happened to my head?	~ John W. Patterson
	



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