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DeWolff: Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants
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REMusic Records (28017)
 DeWolff is a new 60’s/70’s styled psychedelic blues/rock band formed by young Dutch boys Robin Piso (organ, vocals) and brothers Luka (drums) and Pablo (guitar, vocals) van de Poel. Obvious influences for these youngsters have been at least The Doors, Deep Purple, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin etc. This is their first full-length album and before this they have released one single and a mini album that has partially different songs on vinyl and CD versions. The fellows seem to have a lot going for them at the moment and they have been gigging extensively during a couple of years and also appeared on television for several times. So this seems to be some kind of new teen sensation or something.
This 51-minute-long album has eleven tracks. The great “Mountain” rocks pretty hard and sort of brings to mind Lucifer’s Friend. The track is quite slow and gloomy for the most part, but sometimes they go faster too. There are also some psychedelic effects in there. Not bad at all. “Medicine” is a slow and atmospheric bluesy number, the faster ”Don’t You Go Up the Sky” reminds me of Deep Purple and some of the 70’s hard rock/heavy boogie bands from the USA. “Desert Night” is a pure The Doors imitation and “Wicked Moon” again faster hard rock. “Birth of the Ninth” is a slow-paced and quiet ballad that grows towards the end including some Jim Morrison-styled racket. “Parloscope” is a bit more special, rather slow and exciting piece that also has a bit of psychedelic touch. ”Fire Fills the Sky” is mostly a very peaceful track with effected vocals, but at times it explodes into heavier and wilder going in a great way. The groovier ”Red Sparks of the Morning Dusk” is one of the best songs on the album and includes excellent harmonic vocals and also some saxophone that adds a pleasant, jazzy jam feel to it. A superb track! Then comes an over 10-minute-long “Silver Lovemachine” that has both quieter, hypnotic and a bit mystical stuff as well as some nicely rocking going with psychedelic guitar licks. This is another favorite of mine. Finally, we hear the rather minimal piece “Leather God” and I think they might just as well have left this off the album.
As a whole, Strange Fruits and Undiscovered Plants doesn’t completely convince me, but I can’t deny that I really like many of the tracks on it. As a bass player, I do occasionally miss the low frequencies a bit, but in general the very late 60’s/early 70’s styled organ and the skilful guitar work so well that the bass is not obligatory. The drummer plays very well and the vocals are excellent throughout. So we should just be happy that at least some of today’s youth rather form a band playing decent classic rock with psychedelic tones than rap on top of some loops or just play computer games at home. I believe that we will hear a lot about this trio since the boys also look good.
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