#demon fuzz

noise militia - DEMON FUZZ

"tribute of the legendary 1966 Vox Tone Bender, originally made in Recanati, Italy by Jennings Musical Industries (JMI)"

One of the peace and incredible hippy song

Deep cool hard Smooth like king crimson

2/26/21.

The Brother Moves On are from Johannesburg, South Africa and they meld many sounds - some expected and some surprising.

I learned about this release via Joyful Noise Recordings.  Their “White Label” series reissued this early in 2021; the point of the series is to select musicians who then choose an album for reissue.  This album was selected by Shabaka Hutchings, a British jazz saxophonist.  Hutchings chose this in part because it has one foot firmly planted in the past while looking to the future. 

So, there are nods to South African artists as varied as Ladysmith Black Mombazo, and the National Wake, while exploring some jazz sounds and drumming that remind me a bit of Makaya McCraven.  In fact Angel Bat Dawid left a short review on the Bandcamp page for “A New Myth”:

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Demon Fuzz - Past, Present and Future

“Afreaka!”, 1970

There will be time.

Time that takes the water to flow for rivers to grow,

For all the leaves to sway

in the endless gardens of today.

Time for the light to shine with epicentres of the sun

That perfectly fit the rhyme while basking the divine.

There will also be time for you to accept

All the hurt and rage you didn’t caress,

For you to truly swim through oceans of loss

Effortlessly gliding all the way across.

There will be time for these tears to fall, and leave this plane,

To light up as all, even in the clouded rain.

You see, this time that we speak so intensely of,

Also likes to be free from us,

Instead of squeezing and pumping out seconds like frozen water,