Let Not The Flame Die Out

Anubian Lights - 'Let Not The Flame Die Out' (Hypnotic):
This being the Anubian Light's third release,it just may very well be their best.'Let Not...' is modern day space rock with a middle eastern twist to it.Does the formula work?You bet your wetnaps it does!I've listened to this fourteen track disc MANY times and I still find it a blast to hear.The Tommy Grenas/Len Del Rio team seems to have created quite a piece of music here.Grenas does the guitar,bass,moog,samples,and keyboards while Del Rio is responsible for the main keyboards,programming,and loops.Several guests appear on this record.Gong's Gilli Smyth puts some planetary magic into "One Eye To The Sky" while long time Hawkwind violinist Simon House lends a helping hand to the trippy "Frequency Of Sands".Nik Turner steps in to add some sax and flute work on "Broken Entranceway","Mutashaker",and the somewhat jazzy "Atoms Of The Gods".Still,plenty of other goodies,like "The Fire Breathes","South Of Dashur","As Seen In 822 A.D.",and "Vision Of A New Homeland".As a whole,'Let The...' is guaranteed to provide the listener with some good old fashioned temporary brain damage.

A Wild Mix That Works:
Imagine electronica and space rock, blended with Middle Eastern samples and melodies, rhythms ranging from techno trance to bossa nova to surf rock, whip it all together into one delicious melange, and you can get a fair idea of what this album sounds like. Great stuff from Tommy and Len and friends (amongst them, members of Hawkwind and Gong). Even better than the first Anubian Lights CD!

Fantastic!:
Electro-Egyptian trance-dance. Less ambient than their other releases, this is still pretty spacy. Cerebral and fun. Would make great music for an interplanetary bar.

more infonew news on anub front:
a lot of new things happening here.........live shows.......new release........bruce haak tribute featuring....stereolab beck beastie boys and anubian lights. look out for this in march on emporer norton records.also new nik turner live w farflung. the nubes took some time off this year, but are back now. keep an eye out for new titles....................cd of remixes and rare tracks avail at..........glortch@aol.com thanx............grenas.

Techno written for the Pharoahs!:
The best thing about this CD is the way that Anubian Lights consistently pull Middle East samples into their trancey tracks. They use these sounds tastefully and really incorporate them into the music as opposed to just having them float around like decorations on top of the techno (the way many artists do). The vocal samples are really good at helping to set the atmosphere. "South of Dashur" has a funky feel and is the best mix of old and new music on the CD, while "The Locusts Call" and "Frequency of Sand" sound as though they could be techno's answer to Zeppelin's "Kasmir". After that, the CD mellows out on two songs that are pure ambient trance with arrangements full of Middle Eastern melody. Tracks 7 through 10 are all fairly weak and result in a sag right in the center of the CD, but things get back on track with the pounding "Sanctuaries of Jupiter" and the quiet mood music of "Nara-Yana". More tracks with the drive of "Santuaries of Jupiter" would have helped vary the tempo over the CD a bit. For the most part, though, this is a great sounding piece of work. I'm interested to see where they take this next!