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Rating:
Zaireeka is the most visionary fruit of the Flaming Lips' latest phase.
The FL are the omni-psychedelic group, born in '83, from which Mercury Rev's Donahue (and Dave Fridmann, the sound engineer of the very first FL) emerged.
The work consists of four CDs to be played simultaneously (I more or less succeeded only once by scheduling relay appointments between CD players).
The result is hallucinatory (in the true sense of the word) and difficult to explain in words. Moments of heavenly sweetness from the four corners of "paradise" (see the end of The Train...) alternate with sonic encirclements (from the drum solo coming in turn from the four speakers, in March..., to the barking dogs that tear you apart at the end of The Big...).
To be listened to, without filters.
PS: Also listen to Up Above the Daily Hum, maybe at night, under a starry sky, imagining yourself "Happy on the pull of the past, just before the future comes..."
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