Fruits de Mer Records (Friends of the Fish 85)
This is the next Sendelica album (the first one in many years NOT including me as a guest on synths…) and will see the light of day sometime this Summer. This has a bit different, more positive vibe after the albums about human kind, and there’s a good reason for it. I’ll let Pete explain himself:
“Well its been quite a year for Colin and myself, Colin surviving his
liver cancer and myself, with first of all my heart condition, (Enlarged
Heart) and then a further scare at the end of last year when I suddenly
became very anaemic which turned out to be a severely inflamed, blocked
and bleeding bowel. But out of adversity comes inspiration, as Colin was travelling around
Asia we started working on a new Sendelica album remotely, we were
joined by Glenda and Lee, who recorded in Cardigan and also by Calli on
vocals, Kate Riaz on Cello, and by The Last American Poet, Shane Beck,
on spoken word. I used some audio samples of my ultra scan, who knew that heart valves
opening & shutting could sound so trippy!, and off course my talking
blood pressure monitor at hope, which funnily matched Colins Asian
Journey. Colin took some amazing photos on his journey through Asia, some of
which feature on the album cover. ‘Nirmata’ is the sanskrit word for
architect / creator, and seemed a fitting title for such a project as we both felt we had come out of a very long tunnel into the light.”
So I guess this could be considered as some kind of victory over potential death album. I’m so glad these lovely guys are still with us to make their amazing music! Okay, so what do we have here. Six new, mostly instrumental tracks. Programmed drums, as usual, which is fine. The tracks are shorter than on the previous albums, so no 20-minute epics. Actually it seems to me that these would maybe just fit on on LP, but I’m not sure if they’ll end up doing a 2LP anyway for maximum sound quality. “Wish You a Good Health” includes cool samples of Pete’s talking blood pressure monitor (I want one too!) and heart valves and is a rather positive, relaxed number in the Spiritualized vein. There’s also a short section of spoken word by my constant Astral Magic/Strange Vibrations/Chakra Vimana collaborator Shane Beck! The mid-tempo title track has a groovy beat. One of my favourites is “Singled Out and Strangely Left in Limbo” that has some beautiful synth leads and a bit trip hop like beat. “Blood One” is the longest track at over ten minutes. It’s a quite slow one, soulfull sax by Lee. “Save Your Breath” is a short ambient pice with the other guest Calli on vocals. Pretty! “Peyote Sunrise” starts of with trippy Shane section and grows slowly. Nice sax again, and cello. A very wonderful soft ending for yet another great Sendelica album!
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NIRMATA by SENDELICA
