THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE
LIVE BERLIN/8MM BAR
Post-psych
Tuesday, the 26th of november. Sitting in the 8mm bar. Smoking some joints, drinking some beers. Meanwhile chilean super psychs „The Holydrug Couple“ have prepared their equipment for a space odyssee which has no equal. 10pm. Heading over to the bassy cowboy club a few meters away. Always a good feeling to go into the dark, smoke-soaked air. Beer covered grounds sometimes inclusive. You can imagine this brilliant bar in „From dusk till dawn“? So now you got it. Two people on stage and a small crowd in front of them. Delta Love. A berlin based lo-fi garage band which blow your mind by repetetive, delayed guitar-playing and constant, basic drumming. Two voices. Really melodic and dreamy. Reminds a bit of „Night Beats“ and „Sic Alps“.
They played a set of let's say 40min.
Not sure about that. The green stuff had found it's way so better
don't bet on that. Anyway. They left the stage with satisfied
listeners in front of them. Great job!
After a quite long break, the four guys
from chile started filling the room with some fuzz-inhaled, echoing
tunes.
It took a while until they set up the
equipment so there was just enough time to prepare yourself
physically, by rolling it up. Right then they started. The soundscape
these guys produce is hard to compare. A big but smooth door of
harmonic embracing with some trip adventures. Not one bad thing you
could tell about it. They not just even performed their songs as good
as on tape, what seems to be a big deal for some bands...they even
filled it with some really creative impros. Especially in these parts
you were confronted with 70's psych, not to say krautrock elements,
which kicked my stoned ass. „Hallogallo“, „Weissensee“ or
„Negativland“ by „Neu“ is what these jam parts sound like.
Here also to say the bass sometimes can't get more groovy, the guitar
can't sound more acid-filled, the keyboard can't reach more harmonic
and the drums won't get much more impressive. Produced, improved,
ready for consuming! Sounds like somekind of a Timothy Leary
advertising but why not. „Acid is the topic, acid is the music“.
And then, after playing a genious set
probably more than an hour, they trapped inside the longest and best
improvised jam part. I'd say around 20...maybe 30 minutes...Not
really different to the other shorter ones in the songs before but
more energetic and lazy in the same time. Not even technical above
average skills but creative as fuck! Guitar universe melting into
liquid keyboard sunrises combined by bouncing bass horisons...flowing
together into repetetive, wave-like drumming.
Text:Basti
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