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Brian Ellis - Quipu [NR​-​LP018]

by Brian Ellis

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Marcin Wielewski
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Marcin Wielewski When I'm into jazz that's it! I love the way rythm accelerate, trumpets squeeze, and drums softly massage my chest. Favorite track: Funeral March.
Logen Ninefingers
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Logen Ninefingers Best known as a multi-instrumetalist and a member of much missed prog-heroes Astra, Brian Ellis displays his guitar virtuosity on this 7 track acid-rock extravaganza. Inititially released in 2011, 'Quipu' is an exciting fusion of Latino, Prog-Jazz, Space Rock and Zeuhl, best exemplified on remarkable opener 'Birth' - a breakneck racket of brass/guitar and bass - a bona fide one man Psych Rock orchestra! Favorite track: Birth.
Jacampanman
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Jacampanman This is superb. A heady mix of jazz fusion (think Zappa, 70's-era Miles), jazzy psychedelia and space rock. I detect a hatful of other influences in here, but the album is constructed in such a masterful way as to sound totally original, making it difficult to put my finger on who they are! And, finally, there's the glorious zeuhl of the monumental closing track - awesome stuff!
Der Ohlsen
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Der Ohlsen "Ellis is the Dark Magus burning The Inner Mounting Mekanik Flame. He's walking on all the paths Miles Davis' electric phase and everything spawned by it have build with an ease, as if he had been on stage with all the masters themselves. From the enlightened to the haunted - he channels it all."

full review on my blog:
derohlsen.blogspot.com/2021/08/more-psych-reissues-feat-brian-ellis.html
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1.
Birth 09:16
2.
Canyon Star 06:03
3.
Count to Ten 06:40
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Gossamer 08:09
6.
Psaw 11:24
7.
Walomendem 14:19

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"Originally recorded in 2008, Brian Ellis "Quipu" was not released until 2011 and only on CD. This album represented Brian escaping using any sampling to in turn record all the instruments himself, sampling his own performances in order to create organic music with an electronic music production approach. With David Hurley (Astra) on board playing drums on a few tracks, "Quipu" achieves a free form feeling with hints of prog, jazz, funk and fusion. The closing track "Walomendem" is a firey epic tribute to Zeuhl music/Magma at it's finest"

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released December 4, 2020

Recorded, Performed, Arranged, and Produced by Brian Ellis.

Drums on Gossamer, Psaw, and Walomendem by David Hurley.

Artwork by Sean Painter and Jessica Planter


REVIEW BY JULIAN COPE:

The same can be said for Brian Ellis’ masterful album QUIPU, whose spectacular hour-long musical sojourn is nothing less than a trans-dimensional dance into new myths, old myths and even myths yet to be addressed. Powerfully played, masterfully (and most dervishly) arranged, effortlessly endowed with compelling FX and stellar sonic novelties, this may well be the single CD that the Seth Man requires for his new West Coast reality! For it gots to be declared, brothers’n’sisters, that this record dares dares dares to rub shoulders with such cultural giants as John McLaughlin’s immense 1970 DEVOTION LP, to nip at the heels of Miles Davis’ most opaque and chromatic AGHARTA, to dock at Magma’s most guarded space port, even to sail perilously close to U.S.S. Zappa yet still come out smelling like Faust’s 1st! Spectacular steering, sir! Magical is this recording. CONTININTAL CIRCUS-period Gong axe-instrumentals as augmented, nay, wind-assisted by the Mothers’ Ian Underwood and the Gardner brothers? U-Goddit! Serpently, this disc adhereth never to current popular norms, but – like other such singular and timeless oddities as Mikhail Checkalin, MCH Band, even bits of Todd Clark – Herr Ellis keeps his mixes harsh, tough, radically visceral. Instruments poke out, analogue synthesizers squirt uncontrollably, whilst beneath performs a Godlike crew something like a Klaus Blasquiz-led dark robes versh of The Tubes. That in control, kiddies? Yup, THAT in control. Released on the Parallax Sounds label, this record will play and play for years and years. Except for a few E. German reel-to-reel mega ensembles, QUIPU sounds precisely like kinda nothing else ever. Oi, Christian Vander, what’s Kobiaan for Extremely Well Done?

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