A few good times in my life
It seldom happens that I feature the same artist the second time in the last weeks but I can't get enough of it during the last days. As said it was the founding of the year so far. Our Mother Was A Plant by Gioele Valenti aka JuJu is on heavy rotation at my place since I got this album. Sunny After Moon combines in a brilliant way krautrock, early 70's west coast sound with enigmatic tribes and guitars that can you forget everything.
Today's long song is a new one that came to my ears last Friday. I got aware of it by checking the mailing lists from my inbox and found the announcement of a new release by London based label Fuzz Club. JuJu is the brainchild of Sicilian multi-instrumentalist Gioele Valenti and his album Our Mother Was A Plant from 2017 will be re-released next month. It is one of these albums that was overlooked in the mass of releases as well by myself. Dropping the album under the category Psychedelia does not do justice to it. The album is full of shamanic mantras and influenced by afrobeat, krautrock, glam, post-punk, drone and everything in between. One of my best findings this year.
