2012 (KLP171)
Start packing your survival kits, music lovers, because the world will end on December 21, 2012. This is the dead stop predicted in the Mayan Long Count calendar, and it's also where the next stage in the feral mythopoetic dance groove of
Old Time Relijun begins. Place this record in your music-reproduction device of choice and groove upon the sound of loud giants striding around in the post-apocalypse, mud and dead scorpions clinging to those dancing shoes, dream wolves feasting on their synapses.
2012 is the next stage in the evolution of
Old Time Relijun, and you will wonder where on earth this album's set you down once you've heard it. The current incarnation of
Old Time Relijun features writer/shouter/guitarist/saxophonist/mad-prophet
Arrington de Dionyso and brilliant upright bassist
Aaron Hartman, plus a new drummer,
Jamie Peterson (formerly of Deerhoof side project The Curtains). The new record recorded at the mythical
Dub Narcotic Studio with
Calvin Johnson -- is something of a sequel to the sexy stompfest of
Lost Light [KLP159] (which, mark my words, will surely be ranked among the best song sequences of the second millennium). The dance groove the band creates here gets faster and snakier, even as the sermons and dreamscapes plunge back to earth. Imagine a baptismal hand gripping the back of your head, allowing you a brief moment to inhale that L.A. smog real deep before you're head's underwater scattering the tadpoles and cold-muffling your ears. That's what we have in
2012: a crazed, visceral song sequence that generates a groove smiled upon by the ghosts of Howlin' Wolf, Pere Ubu, James Brown, the Gang of Four, John the Baptist, and Albert Ayler.
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