Freedom Express | ru

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Recorded by a Frenchman, a Belgian and an Iranian who’d wound up in New York’s East Village via extensive travels out East, this 1969 classic is arguably the finest fusion of traditional Middle Eastern music and psychedelia ever recorded. Featuring guitar and drums as well as oud, electric sitar, melodica, dumbek and minitar, it’s a hypnotic, compelling blast from start to finish. As the original sleevenotes state: ‘Like the train whose name they bear, the Orient Express travels easily from West to East and back again, maintaining their individuality and integrity all the way.’ Guy Duris was born on the...
Zero Degrees Freedom is the sound of darkness put to music. Lyrical investigations of internal conflict and self-loathing set to a violent soundtrack of weeping melody, crushing rhythm and grand orchestral sound-scapes. Having outgrown its earlier incarnation as a solo project; under which 2 releases were sent screaming into the world, the band evolved into its current state in mid 2003 when grindcore fanatic Chris Pope, Black-metal fiends Will Plaster and Linton Tuleja, and the ever-ecclectic Andy Collins added their musical weight and venom to the madness set into motion by (former solo artist) Simon Frech. ZDF swiftly became a...
The self-titled debut album from the Express has been years in the making. A collaboration between first cousins Liam Corcoran and Kinley Dowling, it was whispered about at the family Christmas party long before the two ever made it into a studio together. While on tour together in 2009, (Liam was singing with Two Hours Traffic and Kinley was playing violin with Hey Rosetta!), the pair made a commitment to get the project off the ground. By early 2010, Liam was showing Kinley the ultra-personal material he had been compiling - material that needed a home outside of a pop/rock...