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Nicky Skopelitis - Ekstasis

Dig this review from All Music Guide...I struggled with trying to describe this record and after reading this review, I figured I could not come up with better...
"Guitarist Skopelitis' dustpan approach to world music sweeps various ethnic instrumental grit and grime into the whirling blades of co-producer Bill Laswell's shop-vac. Contributing to the unholy mess are Foday Musa Suso on kora, oudist/violinist Simon Shaheen, gospel organist Amina Claudine Myers, percussionists Zakir Hussain, Aiyb Dieng and Guilherme Franco, drummer Jaki Liebezeit, bassists Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble, and, consistently providing the most bracing moments, Bachir Attar (leader of the Master Musicians of Jajouka) raising hell on the plague-of-locusts vernacular oboe, the rhaita. When Ekstasis's free-floating anxiety is at its peak, it could almost be the disc that Can fans have been waiting for since Ege Bamyasi."

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Nicky Skopelitis - Ekstasis

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome!
Thank you, I'm looking forward to hearing this.

LP said...

well lemme know what you think!

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