FJODOR are
an instrumental progressive space rock band from Croatia influenced by balkan
& oriental roots music, krautrock, fusion, electronic space rock and the
Floydian progressive take on classic psychedelia. "St. Anthony's
Fire" is their 3rd album and can be most likely described as a conceptual
46 minutes piece of pure instrumental progressive rock, mixed with heavy
psychedelic guitar riffs and space synthesizer vibes that colour the music with
that particular jam groove of the late 80s free festival bands. The album
starts in a melodic contemplative mood and then bass starts to build up and the
synths really swirl and float in and out of the mix till the guitar bursts in
an Ozric Tentacles meets early Eloy style. From then onwards, the piece is
intensified with a spaced-out energy enrichened by jazz rock twists and
psychedelic guitar freak-outs.
"St.
Anthony's Fire" is a heavy record, but in the way Eloy's
"Floating" is heavy, or in the way Vespero's "Subkraut: U-Boats
Willkommen Hier" is heavy. It's that patient, smoke-clogged, spaced out
vibe, that gradually builds to a crescendo of an erupting riffy, psychedelic
stomp wrapped in grunge and gristle to just climax in an intense heavy -yet
precise- spacerock maelstrom. It's like floating on a tsunami; the wave that
crosses the bridge and breaks the boundaries.
Sample here.
LTD EDT (only 360 copies)
200 coloured vinyl € 23.00
160 black vinyl € 19.00
Release Date: 7 Apr. 2014
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