Markku Luolajan-Mikkola - Pieces de Violes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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Goat's 2014 psychedelic-rock classic gets a new pressing on jade-blue vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies!There is no direct association between mysterious Swedish psychedelicists GOAT and Argentinian master of magical realism, Jorge Luis Borges. Yet their mission appears to be the same. Borges generated his ideas from historical curiosities across the globe-knife duels on the South American plains, Middle Eastern heresiarchs, Chinese pirates-and twisted them into fictions that blurred the lines between footnotes and outright fantasy. GOAT's sound is the sonic embodiment of this principle, working heavy psych-rock, Nigerian afrobeat, German krautrock, Anatolian funk, and a host of other micro-niches into a hallucinatory celebration of rock's diverse manifestations. Despite the success of GOAT's critically-acclaimed 2012 debut, World Music, the individual identities involved remain shrouded in mystery GOAT performs in masks, and spokespersons maintain that the group is simply an ongoing multi-generational collective of musicians from the isolated, Swedish locality of Korpilombolo, a junction of native Sami people, Scandinavian settlers, and the rare wayfaring outsiders. Beyond that, GOAT divulges very little. It's as if GOAT are taking cues from Borges' short story InchTlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,Inch wherein a clandestine enclave of intellectuals attempt to create a new reality by inserting articles on a fictitious, puzzling state into modern encyclopedias. Borges' secret society wanted their heretical ideologies to infiltrate common thought through an invented past; GOAT wants to revitalize the communal experience of rock music by creating an alternate origin story.Ultimately, it is GOAT's music that speaks the most about them, and on Commune GOAT deliver a heavy dose of acidic grooves, hypnotic incantations, and serpentine guitar lines, building on the much-lauded sound