I continue the #buzz review series, with which I aim to collect all the incredible and fascinating suggestions from our @[ALFAMA]. This is, so to speak, the second 'episode.'

Alameda 3 - Pozne krolestwo (2013)

Alameda 3 is a project by Polish multi-instrumentalist Kuba Ziolek, along with drummer Tomek Popowski and bassist Mikolaj Zielinski. We are presented with an album, 'Pozne krolestwo' (2013), that might seem monolithic or at least an episode of heavy psychedelia akin to that of various bands in the psychedelic scene like Cosmic Dead or Mugstar. Stuff we can say we've had enough of. But not this time. Because this album is a kind of space-opera that essentially unfolds in two long sessions of ambient drone music, where a liturgical sacrality reigns in the contemplation of creation, and which ultimately explodes into a thousand chaotic splinters of avant-garde noise fury. This is essentially the content of the last track of the album, which evokes certain experimental sounds of Japanese psychedelic music celebrated by archdruid Julian Cope, as much as contemporary episodes like the experiments of Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson. In between, there are three small sketches of folk psychedelia that recreate the same attitude of religious approach to other forms of life in our universe, in a quest for space as much as for inner analysis. Overall, there are sounds where the drone reigns supreme, filled with reverberations and at times classical suggestions of psychedelia. A work that reconciles us, first of all, with humankind and that ideally revitalizes the classic imagery of science fiction, condensing in thirty to forty minutes an entire imagination that spans from '2001: A Space Odyssey' to 'Solaris' and then to what is true science itself, man on the Moon, Spirit and Opportunity, the long endless journey of the Galileo probe.

Here is the review written by Buzz on March 1, 2015: POZNE KROLESTWO - ALAMEDA 3 - Recensione di Buzzin' Fly

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