“Pure Enchantment” is an understatement when you’re
talking about these guys. The duo, consisting of Temple of Bon Matin
percussionist Ed Wilcox and Ramble Tamble guitar hero/ex-Guardian Alien Turner
Williams, spin tropical improv jams of the buzzed variety, their, ahem, humid concoctions quite conducive to
lengthy listening seshes enhanced by the sticky icky. Indeed, “Humid
Misterioso” is a scaled-back psych haze drifting through the jungle, its dank
licks and melted percussion a red-eyed excursion beyond the reaches of the
known.
Well yeah, these guys mess around. Opener “Man in
the Coral Castle” is a surprise in the leadoff spot, as it covers twenty
minutes like it was staking out enemy encampments all up in its area in what
turns out to be inverted observations of itself. Let that blacklit wisdom hit
you good and hard, and then close your eyes and open your mind as the groove
makes it not matter anyway. These mid-fi astral guides get headier and headier until
they explode in cacophony of riffage on the transcendental “Rain Dropping on
the Magnolia Tree,” a blistering workout where the jam hits your lungs and
stays there, altering your perception till the distortion magically clicks off
and we tiptoe to a stop. Sure, that’s as good a spot as any to take a
well-deserved break. Drink some water. Have a snack.
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