A band who are as prolific as they are unusual, Spiritczualic Enhancement Center have just delivered their sixth album in eight years. At just five tracks, it carries a lengthy running time, and a long list of ideas, sub-genres and artistic influenced chaos that supports its attention to vibration and jazz-cult ways via self-built electronics and traditional instruments.
Side A is one long track that captures the outfit at a performance in Copenhagen during 2020 at the Teater Momentum for the Future Sound of Jazz. Coming in at over 24 minutes, “Dragon Leaping Out The Water” showcases psychedelic waves and atypical grooves thanks to the sci-fi like gestures, plus Etkin Cekin’s unpredictable bass and Nicolas Sheikholeslami’s curious drumming.
“Caso Di Nebula” then follows with Sasha Lee’s playful synth stabs and Faani’s distinct percussion and vocals. The middle tracks belong to “Worship From Afar” and “The Deep Sleep Of Evil Men.” The former enlists Yael Lavie’s flowing kanun alongside Aeladin’s well timed guitar, while the latter is a tad more rock focused and makes great use of Carl-J. Hoffmann and Alexander P. Jovanovic’s strategic synthesizers.
“Im Lichthaus” exits, and is both abstract and ambient, where Gregorie Tirtiaux’s saxophone adds much to the chilling finish.
An often dark experience that surrounds cosmic wandering, mysterious droning and both jazz and krautrock sensibilities, Spiritczualic Enhancement Center presents disorder, experimentalism and psychedelic waves of their own brand of “Jazz Circus” sounds. They use collaborators from Germany, Russia, Montenegro, Philippines, Romania and England, plus many more, to ensure an eclecticism that you’re really not going to hear anywhere else.
Available on a limited edition cassette, fans of meditative music, sonic ritualism and syncretic experimentalism won’t be disappointed in this mystical listening experience.
