Shelter & Orion With Turner Williams Jr. - Krakatoa LP

Recorded during two sessions at Shelter's Studio 121, the trio carved out this heavily psyched post-ancient LP which they later decided to call Krakatoa. The title was not choose for a hint of any kind of orientalism, but to evoke a total freeness, a deep dive into the furnace of a volcano that comes to mind when listening to the record. Even if it also reveals elements of pan-traditionalism, with a mixture of electronic tablas, dub delays, deep flutes, bagpipes organ (?!), and of course Turner's electric shahi baaja; these elements are much more twisted into an alien-eerie to the core than use to evoke a "West meets East" connotation. With common inspiration taken from Jon Hassell, Don Cherry (especially his late work with Latif Khan), Leven Signs, Pierre-Jean Croset, Terry Riley, John Fahey, the trio managed to produce music that is of its time and quite incomparable. Far from being a tribute to their masters, they continue the legacy of plugged-in weirdo fourth dimension dreamy jams.