Post by thesoundmonitor on Jan 24, 2004 17:17:48 GMT -5
DAREDIABLO
Feeding Frenzy
(Southern Records) 28104-2
Darediablo take musical instruments that you've heard a million times before and create something different, fresh, and most of all something that rocks hard. This instrumental trio from NYC bypass all the things that make instro music boring and create tuneage that
has more interest in each song than most groups have per album.
These songs, which mostly measure 2-5 minutes in length (for stoners with ADD), are innovative, intricate, involving, dynamic, atmospheric, and percussive. In short, they snatch good things from all over the map and are because of it damned difficult to pigeonhole. They'd be perfectly acceptable to the most indy-minded stoner, not to mention the stoniest indy freak in Chicago. These guys have mad instrumental skills, but avoid fleet-fingered wankfests in favor of the overall compositions, which often aspire to a kind of cinematic heaviness that sounds like a soundtrack to some as-yet undreamed of monster TV show that will one day sweep the underground Nielsens, you bet. 'The Hornet' weds King Crimson to some heavy retro Hammond organ, while 'Behold the Panther Stone' has a nutty, spazzy vibe like Motorhead giving Primus some good loving. 'Red Shoes' is long on the Floydian atmospherics and... you get the idea.
Darediablo reads like an updated 50s organ-based trio on acid, only wiiiiiiiiider, if you know what I mean. Whether you call it guitar and organ-based prog, or jazz metal, or hallucinogenic soundscape rock, these guys put out more wattage than most groups twice their size. And I mean that metaphysically. Oh, and don't forget to dig the orange cookbook plaid on the tray insert - it gets the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval!
by Kevin McHugh
Feeding Frenzy
(Southern Records) 28104-2
Darediablo take musical instruments that you've heard a million times before and create something different, fresh, and most of all something that rocks hard. This instrumental trio from NYC bypass all the things that make instro music boring and create tuneage that
has more interest in each song than most groups have per album.
These songs, which mostly measure 2-5 minutes in length (for stoners with ADD), are innovative, intricate, involving, dynamic, atmospheric, and percussive. In short, they snatch good things from all over the map and are because of it damned difficult to pigeonhole. They'd be perfectly acceptable to the most indy-minded stoner, not to mention the stoniest indy freak in Chicago. These guys have mad instrumental skills, but avoid fleet-fingered wankfests in favor of the overall compositions, which often aspire to a kind of cinematic heaviness that sounds like a soundtrack to some as-yet undreamed of monster TV show that will one day sweep the underground Nielsens, you bet. 'The Hornet' weds King Crimson to some heavy retro Hammond organ, while 'Behold the Panther Stone' has a nutty, spazzy vibe like Motorhead giving Primus some good loving. 'Red Shoes' is long on the Floydian atmospherics and... you get the idea.
Darediablo reads like an updated 50s organ-based trio on acid, only wiiiiiiiiider, if you know what I mean. Whether you call it guitar and organ-based prog, or jazz metal, or hallucinogenic soundscape rock, these guys put out more wattage than most groups twice their size. And I mean that metaphysically. Oh, and don't forget to dig the orange cookbook plaid on the tray insert - it gets the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval!
by Kevin McHugh