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Samsara Blues Experiment: Long Distance Trip
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World in Sound Records (WIS-3505)
 Samsara Blues Experiment is an excellent Berlin-based band formed by ex-Terraplane guitarist Christian Peters in 2007. They combine heavy psychedelia, 70’s styled blues jamming, doomy stoner rock and Indian spiritual vibes in their music. I have previously reviewed one of their demo EP’s that included two tracks that also made it to this debut full-length album. In addition to Christian (vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, sitar, synths, organ and electric tempura) the band now features Richard Behrens (bass, effects), Thomas Vedder (drums) and Hans Eiselt (electric guitars and effects). The CD version of Long Distance Trip has six tracks on it and lasts for 66 minutes while the LP version that was also released on limited green vinyl has one track less.
Also heard on the EP’s, the long “Singata Mystic Queen” starts off things in a great way and I must say that this magnificent, psychedelic and heavy web of sound is one of the band’s best. There is also some sitar towards the end to give some mystical, Eastern vibes. In the very end there is a bit more experimental touch. Amazing! The shorter instrumental “Army of Ignorance” is actually some kind of psychedelic doom, and also rocks faster at times. Heavy shit! “For the Lost Souls” grows gradually from smooth, atmospheric blues to really heavy stoner rock, the 13-minute-long “Center of the Sun” is mostly quite soft, hypnotic and psychedelic jamming that occasionally explodes into tighter riffing. This track is unfortunately missing from the vinyl edition. The acoustic instrumental “Wheel of Life” offers a nice break before we get to the album’s brilliant, massively lengthy finishing track “Double Freedom” that I like the most on the album. This number begins peacefully, and the sitar (that Christian really knows how to play too) and vocals are with us from the very beginning. The heavy fuzz pedals kick in for a while at around the three-minute-marker but there are some more relaxed parts on their way as well. The track has some really heavy, also gloomy riffs and the guitarists play hard solos that just destroy your mind. This hypnotic going will surely please both Sleep and Colour Haze fans, and I for one am thrown on a psychedelic trip somewhere into the hidden depths of the human mind.
The band recorded and mixed the album on their own and you got to give them credit for a very successful work. Especially the rather raw, heavy guitar sounds please the ears of my kind of an old stoner fan, and when also the playing is great, there are plenty of good riffs and they also master the psychedelic dimension this album is a very recommendable purchase for all the friends of heavy psychedelia.
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