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Jun 27, 2014At its best, the album is all at once loud, ethereal, and haunting--as if being violently jolted awake from a lucid dream you can’t quite remember.
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Aug 20, 2014There was always a worry that Gamel might be too self-consciously studious and challenging for its own arty sake, but as it transpires, it's an unnecessary and unfounded thought.
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The WireJul 21, 2014There's some seriously accomplished musicianship here. [Aug 2014, p.55]
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MagnetJul 18, 2014Take it all in, and you'll be carried away. [No. 111, p.59]
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Jul 14, 2014Gamel is OOIOO remembering themselves and what they do best, which sounds like something they’ve never done before.
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Jul 7, 2014It takes a few plays to acclimatise to but, once won over, whatever you listen to next will seem pedestrian by comparison. Lovely, but wholly on its own terms.
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Jun 30, 2014It’s rugged, inspired, original music.
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Jun 30, 2014Gamel melds past and future, resulting in a present joyfully reconfigured.
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Jun 30, 2014With likeminded ensembles like Brooklyn’s colorful psych jammers NYMPH and Switzerland’s Eastern-flavored, Voodoo-inspired collective Goat transmitting dreamscapes from the beyond while exuding familial, Zen master vibes, Yoshimi’s OOIOO has joined that spiritual fray with this Gamelan-inspired trance inducer.
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Jun 27, 2014On Gamel, OOIOO praise the traditional while eschewing the benign to create a truly original rhythmic screed.
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UncutJun 26, 2014Gamel is an ecstatic return. [Aug 2014, p.76]
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Jul 1, 2014It's easier to listen with fresh ears and hear these strange sounds as something playful, unfamiliar, and approachable, qualities that Gamel definitely possesses.
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Jun 26, 2014Gamel is a frenzied and ecstatic experience, and one that ends up being brilliant in its bizarre combinations of sounds and ideas.
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Jun 26, 2014Initially overwhelming, Gamel is a gloriously bonkers concoction of flavours that turns out to be extremely delicious indeed.
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Jul 1, 2014On the whole, though, Yoshimio and OOIOO honor that infinite and elusive history on Gamel without ever losing their own present.
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Jul 7, 2014By the fourth song you may feel as though you've endured eight. But persevere and the demented ear will be sublimely satiated.
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MojoJul 2, 2014OOIOO create a continually changing mandala of sounds somewhere between Boredom's sky-high orchestrations, Can's idiosyncratic ethno-experiements and the world-jazz fusions of Don Cherry. [Aug 2014, p.88]
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Jun 26, 2014Not to everyone’s taste, but at its best Gamel fizzes with sonic imagination.