ESCAPADE 
658118
CD
SEARCHING FOR THE ELUSIVE RAINBOW

CLASSIC (EURO-ROCK)

Forget your 'Unknown Deutschland' and your Krautrock re-issues, because here is a new band that knocks most of that stuff into minor league status! Escapade are an instrumental band from the USA that are right up there with, and at times better than, the likes of Can, Agitation Free, Ash Ra Tempel, Guru Guru & Faust. This is music that you will find to be just so intense, dynamic, powerful, full-sounding and accessible, that you will be playing it for a long, long, long time to come. With a sound built around a core of guitars, electric bass, drums, synths, sampler, feedback generator, synths and electronically altered bass sounds, this is absolutely incredible music from start to finish. Essential listening? You'd better believe it!!

‘Searching’ has just 4 tracks, three around the sixteen-minute mark and one five-minute piece. The album opens with a dense, claustrophobic synthscape, with space effects done in brilliant 1970's style cosmic fashion for 4 glorious minutes, before a rhythm emerges from the bottom of the mix and the mass of synths and effects, and it is accompanied by a distant guitar lead, together with further added synths and treatments, all very much influenced by the giants of Krautrock, but never did it sound this good. Eight minutes in, and the drums are turned up a notch, in a sort of classic Guru Guru/early Ash Ra Tempel manner, with a combination of synths and rumbling bass undercurrents. The bass work drives the track along in a slow, but heavy and deliberate fashion, while the guitar rises from the mix, as the intensity and pace accelerate, and then the composition turns into a blazing supernova. The sound is just unbelievable, and the scorching guitar-led finale with the massed synths, bass and drums swirling all around, will leave you gawping, believe me! The sixteen minute track 2 reminded me a lot of classic Agitation Free, only with one hell of a lot more going on in the mix, plus a sense of urgency that the German bands never really had. Throughout this track, there is some astounding electric guitar work, with the endless miles of synths, space sounds and ever-present, solid and heavy bass & drums all combining to form one of the most fantastic tracks I have heard in years – It’s nothing short of perfection, and needless to say, the other two tracks are equally as brilliant as well.

Weight: 150.00 g