Album
Type:
Album
Date
Released:
26th
December 2014
Kooba
Tercu – Track Listing
1.Ukunta 04:47
2.Elephant 04:15
3.Batman 04:15
4.Chika 03:14
5.Disembarkation
01:37
6.Squirting Squid
04:47
7.Pebble 05:36
8.Unaboom 03:21
9.Spit Bucket 02:10
10.Sonique 04:33
Bio
Kooba Tercu is
Johnny Tercu and five other guys which he calls the crew.
Johnny Tercu and his
crew spend time in a moist, rat & cockroach infested basement
playing something loud and heavy. He ventures pointlessly into
nothingness with the same sense of no future as most people in Athens
these days.
After endless hours
of jamming, Kooba Tercu has distilled the ideas developed over a
couple of years in ten songs resulting in something that sounds
incredibly familiar but maybe not quite like anything you've heard
before.
Recorded live. And
then overdubs.
Review:
Now
what the hell is this.....
Kooba
Tercu is an Experimental Stoner Rock Band with the emphasis being on
Experimental. Their S/T debut album is one weird as hell album that
will delight and frustrate many of you in equal measure. As the bio
states – this sounds incredibly familiar but sounding something
completely different as well.
The
album has shades of glitch based electronic synths and ambient
noises. Then the band throw in elements of Hard Rock/Stoner Rock to
confuse you with. Truth be told I hated this album the first time I
listened to it as I couldn't get away with the experimental nature of
it all. Then I decided to give it a few more listens and I slowly
started to come round to the crazy experimental Stoner Rock world
that Kooba Tercu have created here.
The
album is all over the place then why can't I stop listening to it.
It's crazy as hell. The album doesn't know what it wants to be.
Experimental Rock, Avant-Garde Rock or Stoner Rock. It is undeniably
heavy and deserves credit for daring to be so fucked up and different
to other bands. There are great riffs to be found amongst the
craziness of it all especially on 3rd track - Batman - as
it ventures into Torche style Sludge Rock that I didn't expect at
all. Though the riffs suddenly stop and is replaced with 30 seconds
of experimental ambient noise.
You
may think I hate the album. I don't. I'm just trying to point out how
bat-shit crazy the album is. One minute it's all crazy as hell
experimental and the next minute, the band turn into Sludge/Stoner
Rock Gods. Chika and Disembarkation are two songs to prove this
theory. The rest of the album is just as weird and wonderful as the
first half as Koobu Tercu don't care what you think about them.
They're creating music on their own terms and that's what makes them
such a great band to discover.
Their
S/T debut album is insane, crazy, fucked up, intense and a total
blast from start to finish. They maybe the craziest Stoner Rock band
currently out there. And I mean that in the best possible way. Check
this out if you want to hear something different and one that doesn't
play by the rules.
It's
available to buy on BandCamp Buy Now Download and Vinyl through
Spinalonga Records/Body Blows Records.
Words
by Steve Howe
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