Rakash

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Rakash
Studio album from The Void's Last Stand

Publication
(s)

2011

Label (s) Long hair music

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Progressive rock , art rock , math rock , neo-prog , post rock

Title (number)

7th

running time

56:51

occupation
  • Vocals, guitar: Jonas Wingens
  • Guitar: Geoffrey Blaeske
  • Bass: Rachid Touzani
  • Drums: Ray Dratwa
  • Keyboards, La Steel, Mandolin, Melodica: Alex Stoll

production

The Void's Last Stand

chronology
A Sun by Rising Set
2009 		Rakash -

Rakash is the second album by the Aachen progressive rock band The Void's Last Stand . The album was released in November 2011 on the Long Hair Music label.

construction

The album builds on the band's debut album with the 16-minute song Mother Sun and the Other Son (Part III) - The Syrian Goddess . Five more songs follow, as well as an instrumental title and a poem.

background

The album references various real and fictional people. The Syrian Godess takes up the theme of Elagabal again , while the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky is sung in Cut Open Feet and He-Man in Glass Cabinet , before Antonin Artaud is thematized in the final poem .

reception

The music on the album is often compared to The Mars Volta , Pere Ubu , Frank Zappa or the Dead Kennedys , the vocals are often compared to David Thomas and Jello Biafra . In particular, the range of musical styles of the band is emphasized. For example, the website Metal-Inside describes the music on the band's second album as follows:

"The Aachen band relies on different tempos and tricky changes - prog rock, jazz, fusion, punk, wave, blues, funk, art rock - with a proper, but modern 70s touch and definitely the opposite of smooth."

Track list

  1. Mother Sun and the Other Son (Part III) - The Syrian Godess (16:18)
  2. Sail my Ship Achilles (5:40)
  3. Cut open feet (8:28)
  4. She's a Ghost / They Shall not Pass (5:05)
  5. Land (e) scapes and the Beauty of Number 64 (10:33)
  6. Glass Cabinet (9:12)
  7. An Ode to Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud: Poetry in Asylum (1:35)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reviews of Rakash on the Baby Blue Pages
  2. ↑ a b c Reviews of Rakash on ragazzi.music
  3. ↑ Review of Rakash on moviebeta.de ( memento of the original from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moviebeta.de
  4. ^ Gerhard Berlin: CD Reviews: The Void's Last Stand, Rakash . In: http://www.metal-inside.de/

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