Vedda Tribe

2004 release ** "With their experimental tendencies increased beyond measure, Vedda Tribe's sound is now more electronic, cryptic and eclectic: if the intellectual adherence to the most cerebral King Crimson is still important, the psychedelic and neoclassical ambitions of their debut are largely left by the wayside or in any case widely camouflaged in a sonic chaos of cold synths with technological and space-like features, by bassist Mauro Pamiro... The musical discourse of "Good Night To The Bucket" is therefore rather difficult, even if the vocals of guitarist Filippo Guerini become more important, although always in a vaguely amateur context, as in the twisted and glacial Crimson-like hard-prog of "Young Meditation", whose very dark atmospheres could please Garden Wall fans, in the desolate electro-industrial-fusion ballad of "Changes III" with a highly paranoid instrumental coda spiced with rock in opposition, or in the recitative “Touch&Go”, inspired by a short story by Ray Bradbury (“The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl”). The psychedelic element, when present, is filtered by heavy technological sounds in order to convey a sense of alienation that is sometimes almost exasperated, as in the frenetic instrumental “Coda” or in the final twilight ambient of “Good Night To The Players”; “Better Try” is instead the episode that perhaps comes closest to the most canonical progressive rock, with an austere and martial cadence that can almost be compared to certain zeuhl forms. In the labyrinthine chaos of Vedda Tribe we can somehow orient ourselves also through the rhythmic contribution of the Mauro Pamiro-Flavio Leva duo that settles on irregular and syncopated coordinates, often deviating towards more or less marked but easily recognizable fusion territories."