Another great new album to audit this weekend, the one-man progressive drone project, BLACKWOLFGOAT. Darryl Shepard is the mastermind behind this oneāyou may recognize him from his roles as guitarist in Black Pyramid, The Scimitar, Roadsaw, and others. This is now the third release by BLACKWOLFGOAT and itās a joy for amp worship aficionados. The album is humorously titled āDrone Maintenanceā (2014 - Small Stone Recordings), follow-up to 2010ās Dragonwizardsleeve and 2011ās Dronolith. As an aside, Iām having to add a lot of new words to my computerās dictionary today!
To the press release: āA quasi-concept album, the ten-track Drone Maintenance sends Shepard into the future as a drone repairman, fixing and servicing rogue drones. Musically, BLACKWOLFGOATās palette has been expanded to include acoustic guitar and judiciously applied vocal parts, but the main focus remains the electric guitar itself ā without any other instrumentation or ulterior motives, and frequently captured live in one take with minimal overdubs of carefully considered embellishments added to the base layer.
"Inspired by early-ā70s fusion, Krautrock, (Randy Holdenās Population II) and suffocating doom, each song could serve as a soundtrack for an as-yet-unrealized film, yet they stand on their own and transduce their own moods. Drone Maintenance urges listeners to leave all preconceptions of traditional music at the door and take an audio journey to places both bathed in sunlight and cloaked in darkness."
Please enjoy, with the compliments of this blogger ;)
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