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THE OTHER SUN "Daimon, Devil, Dawn"
THE OTHER SUN "Daimon, Devil, Dawn"
By Octopi Mills
Invictus Productions and the Anja Offensive have made some sort of collaborative effort to bring this together for Europe and the North Americas. Dark rock or occult music is what this is referred to as and inspirations are named as diverse as SWANS,, DEEP PURPLE to TITO AND TARANTULA, for instance...or DICK DALE. This band appears to have been formed in Gothenburg, Sweden. The guitars have a notable twang to them at times, perhaps from the Western influence mentioned in the promotional notes. The artsy theme of the photos add to the atmosphere; a psychedelic mixture of old rock and a western sort of feel.
This all adds for something strange and surreal, opening with "Shaking Ground" and moving into the cowboy sort of plinking of "Stalking the Stalker" making for a weird, heady sort of cinematic feel somehow recalling a golden age of film and media. The wang of near rock-a-billy never really manifests in the guitars but I can certainly see the reference to DICK DALE. Like some old church in Nevada way out past where Art Bell might have stationed at night that has been converted into a bi-sexual temple of dark worship, the raunchy shadow rises of post cowboy riders. The riding is more of a corn dog than a horse, though and the pistols are like squirt guns here. The crew rancheros around the bean pots of conceptual modernity whilst finding true camp in monkeying around with a visual glow that is more psychedelic than real. I feel a canyon covered in jagged peaks in the melt of cheesy shells and a setting sun colored in chili orange. A dusky sort of place emerges with stock characters from the old “House 2” movie, only the ranch hands are in assless chaps with rhinestone adornments and florescent spurs as incandescent as the scorpions and spiders that crawl and spill through the cracked lands. As Spoon said before his hanging in "Lonesome Dove", "I didn't see no line, Gus.."
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