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With a Beaker on the Burner & An Otter in the Oven Image
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  • Summary: The 35-track release from Alan Bishop (released as three separate LPs as part of his Heathen Folklore trilogy) was recorded over three years in Cairo and Seattle with members Invisible Hands and the Master Musicians Of Bukakke.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
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  1. Uncut
    Dec 22, 2017
    80
    With members of Master Musicians Of Bukkake and Invisible Hands joining in, it's no surprise everything gets wilder as it goes along. [Jan 2018, p.17]
  2. The Wire
    Dec 22, 2017
    80
    Throughout there's a strangely prosaic lyricism at work making the mundane threatening. [Dec 2018, p.48]
  3. Mojo
    Dec 22, 2017
    80
    The 35-track odyssey serpentines on an exotic carpet of plangent electric and acoustic guitar sounds through whimsical, sub-Basement Tapes Americana, languorous, Grateful Dead-like psych-folk and hallucinogenic, Lennon-esque-pop. [Jan 2018, p.92]
  4. Jan 30, 2018
    80
    The band sounds more at home playing these than they do on the Invisible Hands’ two albums, and the empathetic accompaniment of guitarist Cherif El Masri and organist Adham Zidan contributes immeasurably to this project’s success. Despite being recorded in Cairo and Seattle between 2014 and 2017, they sound more like they were done on the set of a spaghetti western or live in Nashville the day after Bob Dylan recorded Blonde On Blonde.