21/01/2025
Pre-release for Sun Dog by Kabas is now online. Only vinyl, limited to 100 copies. Get your copy now via Bandcamp.
"The three-part album feels like a minimalist, repetitive suite. Sounds appear, get repeated and dissolve. Different constellations pop up, an ambient-like mass of sound keeps transforming. It’s audiocinema with basic, strong ideas. Flurries of flute take on a ghostly allure when combined with a slow, but steady bass pulse, while shimmering cymbals and humming keyboards create an atmosphere hovering between detachment and familiarity. It is hard to separate the three parts from each other, as each one feeds off what came before, with an introverted silent dance leading to a more pastoral vibe touching on folk territory leading to the propulsive last part.
With a rotating drum pattern and twinkling electronics, it resembles a kind of sparse Kosmische Musik aiming for both outer space and exotic territory, while it makes perfect sense for a banjo to be included as well. Perhaps that is what turns Sun Dog ultimately into such a success: the band not only elaborates on its instrumentation and its stylistic whereabouts, but does so while installing a vision that can bend any idea and instrument to its own will and logic.
As such, Sun Dog is that most valuable thing: a world in and of itself."
Text by Guy Peters
Recorded by Peter Desmedt at Studio Ledeberg, Ghent
Mixed by Dijf Sanders
Mastered by Lieven van Pée
Sleeve by Rutger Zuydervelt
TINKE003
co-production with
Troika vzw < 3
