Beatball Music
The Mustangs : Acid Trip (KO,2008)****
chosen for possible airplay : (Tr.3, "C20H25N30" 9 min), tr.4, "Indica" 6 min,
tr.6, "Parrafin" 8 min,(tr.7, "Acid Trip" 13 min), tr.8, "Savita" 7 min
On the second album there’s also some keyboards as an extra instrument, used in a very trippy psychedelic way. The style, like the title “Acid Trip” already states, directs this time even more towards psychedelic rock with free improvisations and jams, great long electric guitar solos, a few combinations with acoustic guitar, good drumming and more complexity, and some good variety within the tracks. It is starting already very strong with the first instrumental track, “Flashback”. The third tracks starts with a thunderstorm, used for a rolling/cymbal drum solo before a somewhat relaxed jam on guitars starts, and some song appears, accompanied by moody electric guitars textures, getting heavier further on, like a psychedelic storm, with some slower, more whirling and also some heavier guitar jam parts. “Indica” has also analogue synths leading here and there, with some really wild experiments on the electric guitars. “Parrafin” is a heavy psychedelic jam instrumental. The almost 13 minute “Acid Trip” starts calmly, with electric guitars and drums and bubbling electronics only, then changes its rhythm with some Korean flavoured guitar melody lead. This leads to another very calmed down improvisation, still led by this guitar, before brooding itself out of a weird psychedelic guitars tension, returning to the main theme electric jam, becoming calmly wilder with it from within, with some experimenting-a-bit further conclusion. This is followed by another track with good guitars (here are some vocal harmonies used) which has pretty wild rhythms and guitars too, and a more aggressively sung ending into the complexity of the situation. Psych-heads, go for this one, you won’t regret !!
