Causa Sui
Summer Sessions Vol. 1-3

Reissue and merging of the three sessions released in the summers of 2008 and 2009 in luxurious 180gr gatefold vinyl limited to 500 copies, with gorgeously vintage artwork, now sold out because: who expected something from ex-clones of Colour Haze imitating Monster Magnet??

And instead - after two fairly canonical albums (impactful the first, less lasting the second) and the reduction to a trio without vocals - if the new three-headed delirium of Oneida wasn't enough for you and you want something similarly conceived, here is a hard freaky synthesis that goes down muuuch better.

Psychedelic psychotropic trips, acid Kraut, liquid loops, wurstel and Americana, prolixity at full throttle with bandanas on their heads, dreaming of colorful mushrooms like on the cover of Sacred Mushroom, long endings challenging the attention span (but who cares?!) with Johan's sax that enriches and mellows vol. 2 (out-of-tune free jazz: someone said, Miles Davis?) and vol. 3 (raw Kraut in San Francisco), Rasmus filling voids with electronics thrown in by the pound. A perhaps not easy but probably not even sought mediation between jam, writing and exhausting repetitions that in the happiest moments radiates in the room the old Krautrock brought to new (?) by those stoners of Quicksilver Messenger Service, with Comets on Fire around the corner, and since we're dancing I'll throw in Klaus Schulze, Hawkwind, Amon Düül and Göttsching too.

In a post-world where the last radio instead of recommending new things just gives me all the clones of the clones of the bands similar to those I've always listened to, all this is reassuring but... down with the hefty Ancestors, the spacey Earthless that you no longer know if they hit your stomach or your balls, the Elektrohasch and Nasoni family that in recent years has generated an endless series of intersections, exchanges of influences and adulteries that it is now difficult to remember the difference between RotoR and My Sleeping Karma (if there even is one), the new (old) Swedish rock and... Here, Causa Sui definitely positions themselves in this prolific and addictive sonic context but that sometimes makes you want to throw away all your CDs, trash your hard disk and allow yourself just one vinyl a year.

The now overloaded ears forced me to have a free Sunday and a new turntable for the LPs of these freaks, but the triple CD reissue in a cardboard box is liked even by my sister, costs little, and comes to your home with a love note from Stefan.