One of my favorite aspects of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon is how you can get lost in its psychedelic and jam-like expanses. This type of breakdown can be transferred from genre to genre obviously. If done well, expressions of true passion are most powerfully felt (The Great Gig In The Sky). If done poorly, the listener either gets bored quickly or is left feeling a little cheated. There really is no middle ground.
Moon Duo sounds nothing like Pink Floyd; I want to make that very clear. Mazes, however, centers on the same type of otherworldly improvised stretches that Pink Floyd perfected. A lot of the time it would hit me after a while of my not noticing. I'd be digging a guitar solo or something and then I'd realize I hadn't heard lyrics in quite a while.
These guys don't like to play with structure. Every song is no more than two or three verses and then an extended jam. The tracks rest on simple, repeating hooks, which at first don't seem too exciting, but they really pick up and take shape once the soloist kicks in. For every song I thought I wasn't going to like the break, but I always was satisfied by the end.
Also. Some exciting news. Over the Ultra weekend I met two guys who run a music site called LFTF. I suggest you scavenge. They've been running it since 2008. I'll be contributing to LFTF in the very near future, but the frequency with which I will is still uncertain.
I'm going to go listen to some Pink Floyd.
Best, Jonathan
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