Customer Reviews

July 15 1972

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As far as I know,this predates anything else known as "drone" music,which seems to be a popular genre these days.This is about as psychedelic as it gets,your mind wandering out into the infinite void.So good.

Awesome heavy drone out from masters of the art. I suggest listening to this alone in the dark for full effect. My only qualm is the giant price tag, unless you're a stickler for tangible products I'd recommend finding and downloading this from one of the many available sources for it online.

I'm told these guys used to "play" tree branches as instruments as part of their live shows. Forget songs, forget song structure, forget melody, even, maybe forget free jazz. All things are structure for a noise ensemble that taken together reveals a kind of beauty in and of itself.

I'm always amazed that this sort of music not only got made, but that it toured extensively, and that the band was quite large. How is this sort of art, bound for obscurity, maintained?

I admit that the first time I bought a TMTs cd I was looking for Taj Mahal - and not finding a blues band blasting guitar riffs in my CD player, I shelved it, never realizing what it was until MUCH later.

Don't expect to dance, sing along, or entertain parties with it! This is comtemplative artistic sounds, perhaps a noise version of a zen garden.