Cosmic psych world rock, featuring hypnotic flute and wah-wah guitars.
Korpilombolo, a village in the Arctic Circle, has endless musical resources, as almost half of the 500 residents have probably played Goat for countless generations. This marketing myth created by the band itself cannot be verified; the members hide their identities with bizarre costumes and masks. And so their sixth album MEDICINE invites us to do the same right at the beginning with the question “Shall we practice a little meditation together?” Do we want to dance around a pagan fire as a voodoo priest to the wild groaning grooves, the hypnotic transverse flute, the waving wah-wah guitar and the 1000 filter-shrouded singer of “Impermanence And Death”?
It may be that this is the best movement option as the seemingly endless guitar solo worms its way through mountains of psych covered in poisonous weeds. This time the sound spectacle is less funky, jazzy and Afro, but the rhythmic deep structure of the album gets even reptilians grooving. The early Funkadelic, who were more committed to rock than funk, were properly tapped for MEDICINE. Furthermore, in their psychedelia phase, the Beatles jump through Swedish fjords with the Krautrockers Faust. And in the end you wish you could stay on this groovy trip forever.
Author: Michael Prenner