Album Type:
EP
Date Released:
July 30th
2014
Label:
Self Released
Baba Naga –
S/T – track listing:
1.Osku Til Osku
05:39
2.Popo Bawa 05:50
Bio
Baba Naga are shamen
in a world where the existence of souls is denied. They offer worship
for those who acknowledge the nihility of deities. The most fantastic
and appalling tragedies are all real, horrors masked inside the
sarcophagi of human myths and history. Baba Naga offer these stories
in song, and give hopeless prayer to the people. The gods are dead,
but the people need to worship something.
The music is a
peregrination from desperation to despair, channelled into euphoric,
psychedelic, pagan gloom.
The live show is
moody, trippy, a sickening high without narcotics. Although the
members of Baba Naga neither smoke the Devil's herb, nor ingest
psyychotropic drugs, their doomy, shoegazey gigs are often described
as making people feel as if they are stoned.
Sheffield exists on
the boundary between urban and wild. Baba Naga formed in this
convergence, three men lost and in need of each other.
Members
Moz - shreds, vibes
Plim - rhythm,
chants
Alexis - beats,
drones.
Review:
Baba
Naga's debut S/T EP is a dreamy shoegaze mix of Doom, Stoner Rock,
Fuzz and Psych Rock that is winning a lot of praise within the Stoner
Rock community. Now it's time for Sludgelord to join the growing
ranks of followers this excellent band is starting to gather.
Their
debut EP is a blast of weird and wonderful Stoner/Psych Rock riffs
with a dose of Hard Rock thrown in to give their music that extra
loud volume to slay you with. Baba Naga are one of the freshest and
original bands from the UK Stoner/Psych Rock scene that I have came
across this year. These guys can sure write a groovy riff to
hypnotize you with. They deserve credit for doing something different
and thinking outside of the box.
This
EP will appeal to all Psych/Stoner Rock fans looking for their next
hallucinogenic musical fix as their music is highly addictive indeed.
It's a shame the EP only lasts 12 minutes but it shows that Baba Naga
have something special about them. Opening track - Osku Til Osku –
has an almost tantric feel to it before exploding into loud angry
Stoner/Psych Rock territory where the loud riffs drift into the
background for Plim's almost shaman-esque vocals to give this track
an out of body experience type feel. Close your eyes and drift into
whatever dimension or permanent state of Stoned-Out-Fuzz Arousal.
Damn
this stuff is so good I have been listening to it non-stop over the
past couple of weeks or so. It's seriously that good. I can't wait to
see these guys live twice in two days at two different gigs later
this month when they support H A R K/Ken Mode in Sheffield and then
Brant Bjork in Leeds 24 hours later. I think I will be in for one
wild spacey trippy ride. Lets pray that I come back in one piece. If
not I am blaming these guys.
Written by Steve Howe
Written by Steve Howe
