Loka - Passing Place (2011)

Loka - Passing Place (2011)

GENRE..... Electronic, Pop, Rock, Jazz
STYLE...... Abstract, Psychedelic Rock, Fusion, Contemporary Jazz
LABEL..... Ninja Tune
MODE ..... VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo
REL.DATE... 26.01.2012
COUNTRY... UK



With many acts finding considerable critical acclaim in the music world right
now through adventures in the outer reaches of psychedelia/jazz/classical, it's
worth remembering that Loka have been ploughing this field with stunning results
ever since their debut track on Ninja Tune's 10th birthday compilation Xen Cuts
in 2000, when they emerged from the same fertile alt-Liverpool scene as Pop
Levi, Zukanican and Super Numeri.
Since their debut album Fire Shepherds in 2006, co-founder Karl Webb left the
band, leaving Mark Kyriacou to carry the Loka banner. Mark re-grouped with
members of the live Loka band (Tom Sumnall û bass, Ged Hawksworth û drums,
Catherine Norman û keyboards and Ray Dickaty - sax) and went about sketching out
ideas later to become Passing Place.
The result is their most confident and cinematic album yet. Less claustrophobic
and inward than before, the new album has a wide-screen, rolling hills vista
feel to it, perhaps most beautifully realised with AngleseyÆs brass ensemble
Seindorf Beaumaris Band on instrumental tracks such as "The Art Of Burning
Bridges", "Exit" and "Sound Stars Make". There is a lot of top-level
musicianship on show on "Passing Place", take the section "As The Tower Falls"
and "The Tower", which share a certain jazz/rock high-energy propulsion with
that of label-mates Jaga Jazzist, and shows Loka can do varying tempos
effectively during the course a full-length. It is an album seeped in
reflection, but containing a wide-eyed thinking of the days to come. Welcome
back to the timeless world of Loka.

Tracklist:
1. Entrance
2. As the Tower Falls
3. The Tower
4. The Art of Burning Bridges
5. Sam Star
6. The Beauty in Darkness
7. Temporary External
8. The Sound Stars Make
9. Attrition Exposed
10. No Water
11. Mirror Image Opposite
12. Exit

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