Split Premiere & Review: Giöbia & The Cosmic Dead, The Intergalactic Connection: Exploring the Sideral Remote Hyperspace
Posted in audiObelisk, Reviews on October 26th, 2021 by JJ Koczan
Giöbia and The Cosmic Dead will release their new split LP, The Intergalactic Connection: Exploring the Sideral Remote Hyperspace, on Friday, Oct. 29, through Heavy Psych Sounds. And of course, the question isn’t so much whether or not you can hang with the 37-minute outward-tripping psychedelic wowness of it, but whether or not the transwarp pathway they’ve opened by routing aux power systems through a tertiary distortion matrix will continue to expand at an exponential rate, gradually swallowing, you, me, your dog Toto, both of our record players, and eventually the rest of the universe as we know it. I’m going with a solid “yes” on that.
And by the way, “going with” is precisely what The Intergalactic Connection — saving some time by shortening the title if you’ll pardon; I know time is a construct, and the Italian and Scottish four-pieces are only offering a reminder of that here; what is once more around the sun when you’ve left orbit at three times FTL? — is made for. As to how much direct collaboration of intent there was between Giöbia, who begin side A with the let’s-surf-in-antigrav “Canyon Moon,” drift peacefully through a take on Pink Floyd‘s “Julia Dream” and drone away three and a half earth minutes in the hypnotic “Meshes of the Afternoon,” and The Cosmic Dead, whose “Crater Creator” runs 19:40 and is a blunter instrument of blowout on its face but no less dynamic once it actually hits your auditory processors.
Can you believe there was a time when humans measured distance in miles instead of sound?
Anyhoozle, whatever psychic link may have been established across these international borders — I don’t know what kind of VAT one has to pay for such things in this post-Brexit era, or even how they’d tally it, or even if VAT applies to the dimension the bands are working in — the two acts are firmly united in the purpose of taking their audience from the place they are and putting them in the place they want them to be. That is to say, The Intergalactic Connection starts far out and proceeds on a course toward farther out. “Canyon Moon” is ignition. “Julia Dream” the organ-inclusive wistfulness of seeing Earth for the insignificant dot it is. “Meshes of the Afternoon” a float through background radiation, perhaps a state of suspended animation across decades or centuries or some other unknown stretch of depth and time. And “Crater Creator” is the fabric woven of interstellar indecencies against the galactical puritan square. Shred shred shred your conceptions and the rest will follow. What happens when? When happens what?
Preliminary data makes it hard to determine a proper rate of cellular decay across what translates as a deceptively-manageable full-length runtime, but let the takeaway from this briefing be that the advent alignment of Giöbia and The Cosmic Dead is not down to simple happenstance. They are drawn together in intent across a linear direction, a single arrow pointing all the way beyond known space (rock). These are not asteroids banging together at random. If you believe something as unknowable as the unknown itself could be working from a plan, well, this is a record and not actually the universe and that’s a pretty dumb idea, but hell’s bells, there’s certainly a plan at work here. And the rest? Screw the rest. If fucking Bill Shatner can go to space on a rocket shaped like a billionaire dingus, certainly you can with headphones and closed eyes and all the wah you can handle and probably then some.
Have at you!
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Heavy Psych Sounds Records is really proud to present the Psychedelic-Space split of the century!!
“The Intergalactic Connection – Exploring The Sideral Remote Hyperspace” it’s a split album that came from deep deep space !!! Here Giöbia meets The Cosmic Dead, two of the best modern space-rock bands you can find. The Italian quartet come with 3 incredible songs, while the Scottish guys deliver a 19 minute long suite.
This piece of psychedelic journey is a travel inside the universe, 4 tracks full of heavy psych and space rock riffs that will bring you into a psychedelic vortex with no way out!
A must-have for all the space travelers. Fans of Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, UFO and Gong will be more than enthusiastic… It’s a Space Ritual journey!!
Rad artwork by Branca Studio!
GIÖBIA
A01 Canyon Moon
A02 Julia Dream
A03 Meshes of the Afternoon
THE COSMIC DEAD
B04 Crater Creator
GIÖBIA are:
STEFANO ‘BAZU’ BASURTO – GUITARS
PAOLO ‘DETRJI’ BASURTO – BASS
MELISSA CREMA – ORGAN / SYNTHESIZERS / VOCALS
PIETRO D’AMBROSIO – DRUMS
THE COSMIC DEAD are:
OMAR ABORIDA – GUITARS / WAH
TOMMY DUFFIN – DRUMS / BIG GUITAR / WAH
LUIGI PASQUINI – SYNTHESIZERS / WAH
CALUM CALDERWOOD – FIDDLE / WAH
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