BLAAK HEAT – shifting mirrors – VINYL LP (black)

VINYL LP (transparent red)svart records2016

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Blaak Heat are an avant-garde Parisian-American psych rock trio, now signed esteemed and unorthodox leftfield label Svart Records (Oranssi Pazuzu, Beastmilk, Opium Warlords). Formed in Paris by guitarist/singer Thomas Bellier (ex-Spindrift) in 2008, Blaak Heat relocated to Los Angeles in 2012 with drummer Mike Amster and bassist Tom Davies (formerly of psych mavericks Nebula). Dropping the former name of Blaak Heat Shujaa, they became more primal, more indigenous and expanded the Eastern influence by incoorperating more traditional instruments and using percussionist Nelson Bragg (The Brian Wilson Group) to embellish the developing sound.


Shifting Mirrors is an album that is as intriguing as it is perilously unrelenting. By exploring a range of tonalities, tempos, and traditional soundscapes, Blaak Heat are able to traverse a number of musical territories. The lead track from the album, “Sword of Hakim” demonstrates the best of the band’s unruly, bludgeoning guitar tone whilst also creating a technically composite and solid rhythmic approach, which brutally rolls out, leaving the listener feeling transcended.


While Shifting Mirrors comes from the area where bands like Kyuss and Sleep have sprung up from, Blaak Heat is a different kind of desert dweller. By looking into Bellier’s melting pot of global psychedelia one can hear echoes of Amon Düül II, John Zorn, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Magma… as well as old school hard rock and surf such as Captain Beyond and Dick Dale, while still wearing his metal influences proudly on his sleeve. Also buried into this, but not deep enough to be fully submerged, is the under-rooted Eastern influence of arrangements; for example, the track “Mola Mamad Djan” is itself a traditional Afghan folk song, reworked into something altogether more sinister.

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1. Anatolia
2. Sword Of Hakim
3. The Approach To Al-Mu’tasim
4. Taqsim
5. Ballad Of Zeta Brown

B
1. Black Hawk
2. Mola Mamad Djan
3. Tamazgha
4. The Peace Within
5. Danse Nomade

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