Chromium Hawk Machine
Annunaki

THE REVIEW

Hawkwind and Chrome are, along with the Gong (and more recently with the Ozric Tentacles), the main standard-bearers of the so-called space-rock. The cosmic epic of the Hawkwind is something legendary: those who have loved this group madly collect their records and officiate the cult like a religion. Albums like In Search of Space and Masters of the Universe are today timeless classics. In its own way, Alien Soundtracks by Chrome of Helios Creed, with its electronic and science fiction sounds has made history. Now two “enlightened” minds like those of Nick Turner and Helios Creed have decided to join forces—supported by the multi-instrumentalist Jau Tausig—in a new phantasmagoric creature named Chromium Hawk Machine under the aegis of the ever farsighted Black Widow of Genoa. I’ll say right away that the album, titled Annunaki, is amazing: the encounter between the universe of Hawkwind and that of Chrome has generated a hallucinated, psychedelic, spatial, and hypnotic music that projects us into a dimension beyond time and space. These are essentially jam sessions in which the wild and delirious creativity of the musicians is unleashed: the pulsating bass, the sax, synth, and the acid and distorted guitar create cosmic and futuristic settings like in the initial “Cosmic Explosion.” This music could be the ideal soundtrack for a journey through space aboard a mystical spaceship: the quality and intensity never diminish. The second disc is perhaps even more extreme than the first with a piece like the long—over 32 minutes—“Crying Moon, Dying Sun” which leads us towards unknown destinations in cosmic and extraterrestrial landscapes. We are facing a great album that I feel I can highly recommend to all "Cosmic Travelers!" Available at http://blackwidow.it/.