“The Trilogy Tapes’ top dawg Will Bankhead may, or may not, be behind the controls of this deep two hour excursion encompassing heady/screwed folkways/outernational styles on the A-side with a B-side of colder black metal, techno, and unheimlich electronics. Properly transfixing tackle from one of the best ears/eyes in the game.
Pushing the capacity of the format to a cog-pulling maximum, Batata’s first adventure spans nearly 2 hours of cuts sure to satisfy the hardest to please deep listeners. It’s a proper guess-again session that joins dots between far-flung folk styles, gnarled psychedelia and a contemporary underground rhizome of shared energies; the sort of thing you’ll only find on the shelves of the most dilated and open-minded listeners.
Ye can go whistle for the tracklist, or even the provenance of pretty much all the music within, but we can confirm it’s all blessed with vital spirits. On the A-side we find plaintive, rhythmelodic prayers sequenced alongside broken folk strings, harmonised metallic instrumentations and spiralling Gamelan sequences intersecting pealing horns and psych oddities that hit square between the eyes, before the B-side takes a decisive turn toward dank and more northerly climes of avant black metal, trip metal, and scratchy abstract techno impulses that jump-cut into malfunctioning computer musick and lead into an outstanding final quarter of psych-industrial invention and sublime ambient sensations.
Spotters; your time!”
Thanks, Boomkat
