Dzyan - Khali [Electric Silence] 1974

Dzyan - Khali [Electric Silence] 1974

Dzyans third and last album was recorded by the same trio and released in 1974. Graced with a grotesque cartoon-like artwork, the album remains very much in the line of the previous two albums, even if they return to shorter track format resembling their debut album.

Opening with the reflective 9-mins Back Where We Came From, Electric Silence starts very strongly with Gigers marimbas and gongs, preceding Marrons slow increasingly-present guitar wails before Giger takes it over again. By the half of the track, the group is now in full flight with Karwatkys bass giving a Nucleus base on which both Giger and Marron can expand and improvise. Indian music is the main influence of A Day In My Life, just as on the previous album Kabisrain. Closing up the first side is The Road Not Taken, which is downright dissonant and comes close to atonal music if it was not for Marrons guitar wailing like an Indian sitar.

The flipside starts with an Indian-laced Khali, where mellotrons are in the background. The same mellotrons pave the 9-min For Earthly Thinkings intro over dissonant wooden block percussions first and steel drums second, then ensues a wide improvisation with only Karwatky staying wise and providing a base, thena drum solo ending in total sonic chaos with both Marron and Karwatky also going nuts. Closing with the albums title track where the Mahavishnu Orchestra impressions return, reminiscing of the previous album title track. Compared with their previous works his album does have a more ethnic feel (mostly Indian), but aesthetically- speaking it is just as Dzyann-esque as their previous two.

Just as excellent as their first two albums, Electric Silence closes Dzyans recording career with an impeccable album and rounding up a very even discography where all three albums are equal in quality.

Line-up:
- Peter Giger / drums, percussion
- Reinhard Karwatky / electric & double bass, superstring, Mellotrone, synthesizer
- Eddy Marron / guitars, sitar, Zaz, tambura, mellotrone, voice

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dzyan
• Khali
• [Electric
• Silence]
• 1974

[MrGiovanninosenzapau]

Qunado le porte del cosmo stavano su in Germania...

[aaevon]

questo pezzo è un capolavoro, mescola la loro world fusion con i synth alla tangerine dream, madonna che musicisti

[staggza]

having heard this i can only draw this conclusion,its a crying shame it is'nt fucking silent.as it is a waste of electric,

[Qadesh86]

Incantevole!!!!!...queste sonorità ricreano un'atmosfera eterea, è come trovarsi in un sogno..veramente stupendo!..