Rake Kash
Title: Exile
Cthonic Records / 2018
RAKE KASH on this recording is: Alex Boardman, Ben Brodin,
Kevin Donahue, L. Eugene Methe, Megan Siebe, Ian Simons, Noah Sterba, and
Edmund Wilson.
Well, it’s been awhile since I’ve dipped into the free jazz
zone. Rake Kash seems steeped in free jazz on Exile, and that’s a good thing. The opening track “Four Decades”
sets a European sounding tone, with keyboard, guitar & drum interplay that
is reminiscent of the Greg Foat Group.
From there, the cassette meanders through “Exile Poem” and winds up delivering
a psychedelic tinged “Ghost of Bacchus” which seems informed by some of the
Grateful Dead’s space jams yet is wholly original and wonderful. The entire
second side of the tape is an untitled piece that is best heard in the light of
day, infused with hauntology and whispery improvisations until it lands in
full-on psych dirge territory. I’ll stick with side A for now but eventually
will give the untitled piece another listen.
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