Studio Album, released in 1973
Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Kabisrain (7:59)
2. Magika (8:45)
3. Light Shining Out Of Darkness (3:13)
4. Time machine (17:47)
Total Time: 37:44
Line-up / Musicians
– Eddy Marron / acoustic, 6- & 12-string guitars, baglama, vocals
– Reinhard Karwatky / bass, double bass, Super String synth
– Peter Giger / drums, percussion
Releases information
Artwork: Helmut Wenske
Made of three tracks, the first side starts on the superb 8-min ethnic-sounding Kabisrain with a distinct Indian influence. The following almost 9-min Magika is much harder to swallow/ingest as it starts out on a wild drum intro, and it never really lets up until its end. The tracks often veers dissonant and limit atonal, but does remain accessible (more so than Crimson’s Moonchild or Providence) to most and in its second part the guitar does take the track into more conventional improv grounds, but still remains uneasy reminding some of Nucleus’s Belladona works. The third (and much shorter) Light Shining Out Of Darkness is quite a change as it veers Flamenco-jazz in a way that Metheny or DeLucia would not disown. Easily the album’s most accessible track.
A sidelong monster title track with its 18 minutes fills the flipside. The track can be seen as a manic Mahavishnu Orchestra meeting a brass-less Nucleus. If the track remains relatively on the subject, avoiding useless lengthy soloing, it does not avoid some lengths especially that Marron’s guitars are the only fronting soloing instrument. However the track veers around the 18-min mark and presents a very repetitive riff that makes the last 6 minutes a bit minimalist.
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