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Mamuthones: Sator
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Boring Machines (BM 018)
 Alessio Gastaldello is an ex-drummer and founding member of Italian psych band Jennifer Gentle. Mamuthones is his solo project where he makes dark, magical and hypnotic ritual music that produces rather primitive emotional states. Sator album got its name from the mysterious engravings that can be found in many ancient Roman ruins and Middle Age European churches. This is a riddle that has not yet been solved. The album’s music is mainly very serene, although there is also some more rhythmical stuff in there too, and Alessio has used Farfisa, Fender Rhodes, drums, percussion, thump piano, flute, whispering and several other noises. The album also features a few guests on guitar and vocals.
The album is started with the short and minimal thump piano piece “Me and My Thump”. “In the Wood” is a magical, ambient soundscape and “Ota Benga” includes tribal-sounding drumming and shadowy whispering as well as experimental organ sounds. The droney “Carrying the Fire” is one of my favorites and has a very mystical, psychedelic atmosphere. Still, the album’s best piece is perhaps “Kash-O-Kashak” that begins with a peaceful, dreamy organ drone that is soon joined by narration that sounds like a prayer or incantation. Slowly the track grows and we also get some hypnotic beat and guitar played by Isacco Maretto. This track takes the listener into some completely different, psychedelic reality! “1000 Voices” is an experimental and odd but soothing number as well as the short ”2007-8-15”. The album is finished with 14-minute-long “Ave Maria” that has some rhythm again although this too is mainly experimental drone and weird sonic landscapes. Sator is a splendid 53-minute journey into some mystical, esoteric and religious place where the ancient ways are still practiced. Recommended!
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