HW/OFF: _Ice Ritual_ (was Re: HW:Nik Turner limericks)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

At 18.20 -0500 7.2.2001, Douglas Pearson wrote:
>This is a CD reissue of the 'Ice Ritual' LP, right (half Dark Sun w/Nik,
>half w/o Nik doing HW covers)?

Yup. Plus a bonus track of a Dark Sun studio piece not on the LP:
"Dream Circuit".

>I like the fact that
>Dark Sun w/Nik sounds very different from the Grenas/Del
>Rio/Farflung/Pressurehed/Space Ritual band w/Nik; both excellent, although
>I slightly prefer the stretched-out versions by the latter band where Nik
>gets to solo on and on while the band does an endless rave-up.  The Dark
>Sun versions are short and concise, without being ICU-punkish.

Though _Ice Ritual_ doesn't really show off Dark Sun to their best
advantage, IMO, worthwhile though the album undeniably is. Dark Sun's
one studio CD release so far (_Feed Your Mind_) I think is stunning,
and they utterly blew me away in concert a few years ago at the
Jönköping Spacerock festival (actually, one of the pictures in the CD
insert is one I took at the Jönköping festival :)  I'm really keen to
see the current band live and hear more of their original stuff.
Hmmm, looks like I'll have to plan a Finland trip! Catch Five Fifteen
as well ... :)  And maybe Amoprhis ... :)

Cheers,
Carl

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