Monday, January 27, 2025

Desert Smoke Ritual - Lady of the Desert (2025)

The debut album from this band from USA.

The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, percussion, bass, guitars, synths, keyboards, flute and vocals.

Some guests added sitar and tablas.

This band is from Seattle up in the north-west of USA. This album has been released through Bandcamp and the usual streaming services.

The music on this album is a blend of stoner rock, desert rock, indian subcontinent raga rock and space rock.

There is a lot of sitar here and that gives the music a great deal of Indian subcontinental feel. That feel are floating on the top of some stoner rock. Some of the pieces of music here sounds a bit improvised. 

The stoner rock is well blended with the space rock too. That gives this album a bit extra quality.

There is no real vocals here as this is an instrumental album. It clocks in at forty-two minutes too. This album is not outstaying it's welcome or carrying any surplus fat.

The result is a good album and one well worth checking out. The stoner rock market is overcrowded but I hope we will hear more from this band. 

3 points



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