"Goat makes the entire Rickshaw horny"

Here is a great review of Goat's recent show at Vancouver's Rickshaw Theatre:

Goat makes the entire Rickshaw horny
by ADRIAN MACK 

What’s the capacity of the Rickshaw Theatre? Six-hundred-and-fifty, or so? That’s roughly how many horny people walked out after Goat’s performance in Vancouver last night (April 15). I hope the orgies commenced in all corners of the city.

Goat, if you don’t know, is a “collective” hailing from that noted centre of voodoo magic, northern Sweden. The music is a kind of afro-psyche hybrid if it was distilled through the roughest parts of Detroit in 1975 (ie. not northern Sweden). But more importantly, Goat is all goofy costumes and masks with the heaviest sex-cult vibe this side of Yahowha 13 and the Source Family. Only the music’s better, even if the set-opener “Goatman” (was it? I was drunk) came off more technically impressive than heat-inducing.

But you can’t just turn this shit on and off, see. By the time Goat had soared its way to “Run to Your Mama”, the band’s two screeching frontwomen—let’s call them Greenie and Bluey, based on their respective tribal outfits—had whipped, stroked, and generally dervished the club into a condition of total supplication (plus they added some percussion).

Let’s note that Goat actually sounded better live than on its amazing 2012 debut album, World Music. Does that count as enough objective music criticism? Cause the point of the whole night came—and I do mean came—when the exotically limber Greenie was leaping up and down on the spot trance-flashing her undies and clawing at her crotch during hypnagogic encore “Det som aldrig forandras”. The men of Goat, meanwhile, remained rooted where they stood, channeling all that heavy orgone into their instruments, which is why it came out so drenched in super-electric feel. The tension was insane. The climax was Swedish.

See the review and picture here: Straight.com

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Gnod + Lightning Glove + Mark Wagner show

We are really excited to announce that Gnod are returning to London for a Bad Vibrations promoted show at the Macbeth in Hoxton.

Support comes from Tesla Tapes artist 'Lightning Glove' and friend of Rocket 'Mark Wagner', who's tape Mental Transmutation Music for the great Zam Zam Records has not left the Mission Control stereo since we heard it:

GNOD
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Lightning Glove
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Mark Wagner
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The Macbeth
30 April
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£6

Buy your tickets from: Wegottickets 

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4/5 review of LAY LLAMAS forthcoming debut album OSTRO

Here is the review roughly translated into English:

Lay Llamas - Ostro
Rocket Recordings

Edited by White Mud

The beginning is equatorial ... ambient sounds, moisture and leaves everywhere, then we go. Mechanical laps one after another, sometimes losing shots on the road , moving with the elegance of an amphibious vehicle in the swamp. Penetrate slowly when the voice surprisingly, messianic. Archaic Revival from the title shows the cards on the table, pulls us away from the tracks and take the flight, finding our power animal among the plant. " I wanna get back there," chanting voice, but it's our ultimate desire , the journey has just begun. In something wrong take the pace , the guitar initially flickers in the background and the drums are from the carpet to the song , before taking possession. In search of pasture plants is shamanic at low pressure, with a flute and synth tones that color in the background to opaque crystalline voice. Beats digital call a tropical rain, slow and steady while the keypad vibrate humming a lullaby. Pastoral Amazon .

With the passage of the tracks and minute hands are immersed in what looks like an initiation ceremony , Ancient people of the stars is the circle of the tribe, the lamas and lay the bonfire. It's up to us to decide whether to be observers or participate in the rite. By opting for the second choice , of course, the head and the body flatter sound with small movements , before the union: We are unfortunately only lasts 7.20 minutes you .... lasted half an hour, we would have a worthy companion to "This dust That makes mud " Liars and the first disc of the" Each one Teach one " of Oneida . I'm hoping for a remix that quadruple the battery life. We are in limbo, with no need to exit . Then, when you thought you had it all comes The Lay Llamas , motorik that seems an anthill amplified to a nightclub in ruins. Desert of the lost Souls from the title says it all, bodies collapsing and baked by the sun, in disarray and frightened by the rattles that trilling behind the stones ... the tinkling tune that comes on the end is perhaps the harbinger of the end. Oh yes, the title track is decompression and makes us understand that we are not Tommy / Tomme, we are not in John Boorman's Emerald Forest but we are here in the land must be colder, with the only option to restart the needle on the record player.

What else to add ? Nicola Giunta, assisted by Joel Valenti and Eugene Luciano, has shown he can still go back to childhood, to be able to still want a machete to save a forest and rascinare the Polyphonic Spree in the mud to resurrect them ugly, dirty , sweaty and covered in insects .... there WOULD be god as a backing band to Iquitos , which organizes Fitzcarraldo , a guarantee of the promoter.

The album will be released May 26 , and my advice , granted, is not to deal with the summer without a copy. 

Score: 4/5


See the actual review here: Radio Gwendelin

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Footage of Goat live at Slims in San Francisco

Here is footage of Goat's sold out show at Slims in San Francisco .

The clip (which is clip 6 of a series) show the end of Dreambuilding, Run to your Mama and Goathead...According to the band, it is one of the best public shows they have done!!

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Brooklyn Vegan photo's of Goat at Coachella

Check out some photos of Goat in full swing at last weekends Coachella. The band return there next weekend for the second of their two shows.

See a lll the photos (Taken by Dana Yavin) here: Brooklyn Vegan

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APRIL 19th – RECORD STORE DAY: Teeth of the Sea - A Field In England Re-Imagined

For those who missed our original post, Rocket Recordings are proud to present a limited Record Store Day LP release of Teeth of the Sea’s re-imagined score to Ben Wheatley’s metaphysical midnight movie A Field In England, available worldwide on the 19th April.

This work sees London’s most adventurous and intrepid psychedelic adventurers allying motifs and psychic spectres from Jim Williams and Blanck Mass’ music and reinterpreting them to their own ends, arriving at a bold and richly atmospheric transmission that takes the rites and revelations of the original work into pastures new.

Originally spurred into action by a commission for Cork Film Festival in November 2013, who are incredibly proud to have commissioned the event from the off especially as it will never be performed again, read what Cork Film Festival have to say about the RSD release here.

Teeth of the Sea’s goal was to take the mind-games, the malevolence and the magick of the film as fuel for a work that exists on a parallel dimension to the earthen realm on which the protagonists carry out their actions. 

Housed in a sleeve featuring all-new artwork by Rocket Recordings seer Johnnyo, and available in a limited edition on thick red wax, A Field In England: Re-imagined represents that psychic quest made gloriously manifest.

Open Up, And Let The Devil In.

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Seattle Times interviews Goat

Ahead of tonights show in Seattle, here is an interview by the Seattle times with Goat:

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"Among music nerds, it’s a fun exercise: play some friends an ahead-of-its-time record — like Can’s 1971 Krautrock landmark “Tago Mago” or Big Star’s 1972 power-pop blueprint “#1 Record” — and ask what year they think it’s from.

Goat’s “World Music” inverts this game.

Made in 2013 — but sounding pre-digital era — it’s a dizzying amalgam of hypnotic rhythms, childlike vocals, bongos, organ and wah, drawing upon everything from progressive rock to Indian raga and West African guitar music.

The Swedish group inked a Stateside distribution deal with Seattle’s Sub Pop label last month; they’re in town Monday, headlining Neumos.

Enigmatic types to say the least, Goat doesn’t divulge involved parties’ names — but an anonymous member, speaking on the band’s behalf, answered a handful of questions via email.

“World Music” has such a unique blend of influences. When did you start developing this style? What came first, the name or the band?

The way we see it, mankind is one and all human cultures and musical expressions are for every human to enjoy. The music we make belongs just as much to someone in Samoa as in Sweden — that makes the evolution go forward — so we choose to view all music as world music. This way of looking at human cultures, music, spirituality, evolution, etc. came before the band for sure. Still, Goat is a very old tradition, and we have always made music with an openness to be influenced from whatever we like. Music [is] just tones and rhythms floating around. Dig it...."

Read the full interview here: Seattle Times

And those of you lucky enough to be going to the show, make sure you check out Holy Wave and Midday Veil, two great bands in support!!!

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'Is your clam in a jam?' say some words about the new Lay Llamas track 'We are you'

This is what they say:

Lay Llamas are from Sicily, perhaps one of the least likely places you’d expect to birth a mind-bending mix of (pagan) post-punk, psychedelia, afro beats and electro. The island’s rich cultural past, and the melting pot of all the different cultures that have inhabited its land throughout the centuries is perfectly reflected in their music, with their synesthesia inducing soundscapes.

We Are You is a seven minute journey that begins at the bottom of the sea with mythical creatures swimming the abyss. Suddenly a flash of light distracts the silence, and a submerged vessel starts floating towards the surface. You find yourself where the sky and the sea meet and spot land ahead, the wind picks you up and carries you to the beach while clouds drift the opposite way. You look up at the pink sky where white birds fly in formation towards a  tree on a hill.  You start climbing the rocky cliffs to get there, when you hear a distant drumming becoming closer. You finally reach the top of the hill where there’s a bonfire with tens of people around it smiling, dancing and saluting the birth of the night’s stars. They see you and stop to embrace you and your soul. We Are You.

Check out We Are You below and pre-order their debut album, Ostro out May 26th on the excellent Rocket Recordings, here.
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See the full article here: Is your clam in a jam?

And listen to WE ARE YOU here:



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Anthroprophh / Electric Moon poster

Electric Moon Anthroprophh
Radiant Sounds of Dust

The Exchange
Bristol
18 June

Tickets and more info

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Anthroprophh release ultra ltd cdr – 'SRR2'

Anthroprophh are producing an ultra ltd (first press only 33 copies, followed by a larger second press at a later date) tCD of unique music called 'SRR2' to to help fund their forthcoming European shows:

June 6th
Eindhoven Psyche Lab
Eindhoven – Netherlands
(w/ Teeth of the Sea/Gnod/Lay Llamas/Terminal Cheesecake)
More info and tickets

June 7th
Rocket Showcase
Brussels – Belguim
(w/ Teeth of the Sea/Gnod/Lay Llamas)
More info and tickets

June 8th
TBC
Rotterdam

June 9th
TBC
London

June 18th
Exchange
Bristol
(w /Electric Moon)

To preorder a copy visit the bands Facebook page: Anthroprophh

Also, news on Anthroprophh's follow up to their 2012 debut album will be announced soon. We at Mission Control have heard the final mixes and it is fair to say the band have produced a fierce monster!!

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