Metzengerstein
Metzengerstein is an Italian trio whose music grows out of long improvised jams built on the repetitive, ritual drive of 1970s krautrock, with psychedelic guitar and electronic detail laid over it. Its debut, Albero Specchio, came out on cassette through the label Sonic Meditations. The LP Alchemy To Our Days followed on Kohlhaas and Yerevan Tapes, a more guitar-centred record that includes the near-drone piece "Peak of Meditation".
Alchemy To Our Days
**shipping the next week** Metzengerstein is a Tuscany-based trio including members of art collective Ambient-Noise Session who had their debut tape Albero Specchio released by Expo 70 Justin Wright’s Sonic Meditations back in 2013 (and recently on wax by Harsh). Alchemy To Our Days is a brand new sixtrack album where the band explores hallucinating sounds and ritual, mythological abstractions even deeper. Featuring field recordings from the Temple in Jerusalem collected by Giovanni Lami, sax in…
Albero Specchio
Metzergenstein’s music is some kind of shamanic black mass, with krautrock influences and a general opiate-flavored atmosphere. In this vinyl debut, firstly available on cassette, you can hear sounds ranging from space rock to Popol Vuh, but the overall sensation is one of a music that is really difficult to define. From the label press release "strong ritual characterization and with a fascination for a kind of ancestral magnetism that draws from a mythological alphabet, older than th…