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K records: gotta either love ‘em or hate ‘em. Right from the start let me reveal to you my secret-that I am a fan of just about anything K puts out. Now, don’t pigeonhole me, but K is consistent and thoughtful about what they choose to release. The shield on the K is symbolic of their unyielding defense of Outsider music. Auspicious Winds is like a delicious Pad Thai meal from your favorite neighborhood Thai restaurant. It’s not just a good collection of singular songs but rather an event, a happening, so to speak. It’s a soundtrack. For what I can’t picture just yet but the idea’s coming to me. Perhaps like the time right before you have your first epiphany about existence and death whilst showering or the first time you had to leave someone you loved behind for a long road trip.
There is ambience and there is sparse, melodious soundscapes. It would be perfect for driving through the desert at night with your best friend sleeping in the back seat. Mellow, soothing, breezy, comfortable: all adjectives I could easily use for Yume Bitsu. Some rain sounds and flanged out guitars construct playground slides and merry-go-rounds for the restless mind. This was partly recorded by the Prince of Pristine Passions, Sir Calvin Johnson at Dub Narcotic, what more can nerds ask for? Actually, Yume Bitsu call themselves the "princes of psychedelic freedom (sound)"-that seems correct. They aren’t looking for to take your money or steal your girlfriend or boyfriend away by becoming famous. I really truly believe that these cats just need to play music and that’s all they care about. Careful, minds have been known to be blown by listening to philosophies like this. Very Zen Buddhist mediation influenced. This is music for the new revolution, kids.
To quote Yume Bitsu’s website, "Early explorations of deeply intuitive improvisation led to the discovery of the Vessyl, a channel of collective energy that is greater than the whole of the creative egos of the performers involved." The name, Yume Bitsu, means dream beats. The album fits right into K’s new catalog of neo-psychedelic stuff like the Microphones. I can’t get enough of it. They are weird in all the right ways. It makes my head hurt, it’s so, so . . . fabulously new, honest, and well, frankly to be cliché, it’s poetic. Jim Morrison once wrote about being on a raft with well-appreciated friends and starting a religion. Seems Yume Bitsu are developing a religion with their organs and softly strummed guitars and caressing voice boxes. And to boot, they don’t even come off as pretentious. I dub them Dub worthy. 4 ¾ KO’s out of 5 for the new champ of Olympia, Washington bands, Yume Bitsu.
-Joseph Martinez
Track Listing:
- The Wedding Procession
- Doctor Trips
- Sharp, Twisted
- Mothmen Meet The Counsil Of Frogs
- Into The Hole
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