Black Moses - Can't Breathe (Turkey Neck)

It would be impossible to talk about the BLACK MOSES without evoking THEE HYPNOTICS, singer and guitarist Jim Jones' former band.

Fusing hard rock muscle with the high-decibel rebellion of Detroit rock trailblazers such as the MC5 and the Stooges, Thee Hypnotics maximum-impact approach came along just as the likeminded grunge explosion was starting to take off.
Assembling a host of 1967 psychedelic fuzz-guitar stars — Blue Cheer, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, etc. — as primary influences, adding a bit of Pretty Things/Rolling Stones ambience and jamming on a frenzied Stooges/MC5 drive, this quartet from High Wycombe, a town northwest of London, handily re-created the pre-Zeppelin era with more flair than most.
Thee Hypnotics became a favorite of the fickle British music press with its first single, 1989's "Justice in Freedom," a stunning debut that, in both politics and volume, echoed the MC5, and by length (nearly nine minutes) hearkened back to the very early days of English metal.
Time passed by, and with subsequent releases Thee Hypnotics got even deeper into the Stooges' sound, 'til 1994's last full-length, "The Very Crystal Speed Machine" which came out on Rick Rubin's American Recordings and was produced by The Black Crowes' singer Chris Robinson. With that effort singer/guitarist Jim Jones' band moved into a more ecumenical kind of rock, incorporating in its' sound the typical black and southern music trademarks.
A "soul-beam" through an Hendrixian electric storm, one could say... Jones' new band, Black Moses, starts from where Thee Hypnotics left off.

Jim Jones new epidermis is now "blacker" than ever ; the BLACK MOSES sound like a homage to Soul, R'n'B and Funk... but played with Blue Cheer's distorted guitars ("Cut It Out"), The Stooges' garage attitude ("Yr Gonna Get It") and MC5's leonine roars!

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