{"id":1557,"date":"2010-07-06T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2010-07-06T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:24:19","slug":"higamos-hogamos-sorcery-mini-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1557","title":{"rendered":"higamos hogamos : sorcery (mini album)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/higpink_crop_BC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"higpink_crop_BC\" border=\"0\" alt=\"higpink_crop_BC\" src=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/higpink_crop_BC_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008080\">sorcery     <br \/>o deo      <br \/>deuced      <br \/>5-htp      <br \/>jahari window      <br \/>sorcery (version)<\/font><\/p>\n<p>having been through various guises, it&#8217;s clear that steve webster cannot help himself. <\/p>\n<p>he simply has to make music.<\/p>\n<p>from his <strong>t-rex<\/strong>-isms with <strong>fort lauderdale<\/strong>, via the electronic based fuzz pop of <strong>the black neon <\/strong>(a lost classic if ever there was one), to this latest project, the brilliantly named,<strong> higamos hogamos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>following the mix-n-match approach of the debut album (reviewed : <a href=\"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1157\">here<\/a>) in which drawn out epic instrumental krautrock monsters sat alongside glam pop there has been a back to the drawing board meeting to figure out where the strengths and weaknesses lie. <\/p>\n<p>the result of which is this 34 minute, 6 track, self released mini album, <font color=\"#008080\">sorcery<\/font>.<\/p>\n<p>no longer trying to go for the vocal spot, the music is all about the clash of monster groove clatterfunk drums (both real and machine based loops), spaced out, phased-n-looped wah wah guitars all of which is then underpinned by a rack of throbbing old school analogue synths, phatter than phat <strong>bill laswell<\/strong> referencing bass lines and a mountain of effects pedals through which the interstellar noises are wired.<\/p>\n<p>basically, it&#8217;s either the late night smoky jam session, where finding that bass line is the beginning of the journey, and then rolling with the head nodding funk (<font color=\"#008080\">jahari window <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">&amp;<\/font> o deo), or, the more rigid rhythmic patterns and twisted layers. the best example being the title track, <font color=\"#008080\">sorcery<\/font>, and its alternate version, with swirling head spinning analogues and a back to basics <strong>sisters of mercy<\/strong> drum machine loop, resulting in a barnstormer of a track that demands some dancefloor guru drop this in the right place taking the dancing throng to a whole new level of pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>of course people with extensive knowledge of <strong>can<\/strong> and suchlike may recoil in &#8216;heard this all before&#8217; styled horror, but from this corner of inexperience, i cant help but admit that i love the results.<\/p>\n<p>currently this slice of headphone space rock is only available via the bands website.<\/p>\n<p><u>more detail<\/u> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.higamoshogamos.com\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; &#160; sorcery o deo deuced 5-htp jahari window sorcery (version) having been through various guises, it&#8217;s clear that steve webster cannot help himself. he simply has to make music. from his t-rex-isms with fort lauderdale, via the electronic based fuzz pop of the black neon (a lost classic if ever there was one), to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}