Gnod
Chaudelande Volume 1

THE REVIEW

A collective from Manchester with an ever-rotating list of members (Ingnodwetrust, 2011, UK)

Contemporary with the aforementioned, Chaudelande Vol.1 represents in my opinion one of the best entries into the band's musical ecosystem, now with a few kilos of flying discs on its shoulders. These three solo tracks of hypertrophic psychedelia, whose humus has the flavor of an acid rock that thinks like a drone, largely summarize the complex dimension of the collective.

This alone would be enough

The Vertical Dead is a very long sonic digression that occupies the second side and closes the record, a frayed mass of sounds and krautrock-oriented experiments that often take the wide expanse; this best exemplifies the remaining tracks in their traits: lack of studio recording flavor, excessive sonic expressiveness, continuous elusiveness of distortions, structures with sound trajectories that continuously lose direction evaporating at times; a hallucinated procession of sounds towards the refinement of the senses, sung like the guide of a ritual that evokes Suicide, Hawkwind, Chrome and any tutelary deity of noise psychedelia.

Recorded in France, it floats and expands composing together with another volume an extended work, and I am convinced that it represents a must-have for those who stroll in these lands and neighboring valleys.

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