Ogogo - "Lunar Surphase" Review

Artist/ Band: Ogogo
Title: Lunar Surphase
Label: Self release
Year of Release: 2009
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The Review:

I was sent this album called Lunar Surphase by an oddly named band called OGOGO. The opening track, “Levitate Your Grape” almost sounds like a schizophrenic video game soundtrack (Pacman Gone Wild?). The rest of the music is very experimental and can‘t be categorized under any genre. There‘s some similarities to some of Mastelotto/Gunn music like their KTU and TU projects as well as Tuner. The musician behind this “madness” is Russian guitarist/composer/arranger/conductor Igor Grigoriev. It should be noted that Lunar Surphase is his sixth release.

I bravely continued onward through this difficult album of “noise”. If there wasn’t as much improvisation on the album and more structure, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. Igor is a skilled guitarist and composer of what falls under several genres like avant guard, electronic guitar “soloing”.

As much as I would have liked this album more I can honestly only recommend this to people that like enjoy “music” with more complex and difficult improvised sounds. Others that dislike improvisational music that sounds like a schizophrenic video game should stay clear.

Reviewed by Ron Fuchs on November 15th, 2009

Tracks:

01. Levitate Your Grape

02. Mr. Greenhill

03. Autoportrait With Ginja

04. Brain Crate

05. Connect With OGOGO

06. M.E.

07. Electric Breaker

08. Dali

09. Too Much

10. Can You Feel It

11. Lunar Surphase

12. Astroturf

13. The Love Of OGOGO

14. Marquis De Sade-Eye Spring Mix

15. Grigori Rasputin