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Assid: Connaissance des Lois Cosmiques

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Artist: Assid
Title: Connaissance des Lois Cosmiques
Format: LP
Label: Notte Brigante
Distributor: Crevette Records


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This is the third full length release from Michael Cohen's solo project and the first on Vinyl. He is also active with Electric Muezzin and the psychedelic rock group The John Mavericks as well as Label Manager of PMR (Strasbourg) since the later 1990's.

As a whole this album sounds indecisive and distracted to me, he dips in a lot of styles from space rock, krautrock, kosmische musik and overall anything psychedelic but hardly leaves the tracks space to breathe. Instruments used are whatever is seen fit be it electronic or electric.
Some of the tracks are lacking any direction and leave one dazed and confused, some are more space ambient like; 'Acces aux plans subtils de l'Êtrethe" or the title track "Connaissance des Lois Cosmiques" which relates them to the more leftfield Psyclones. With "7 fractions colorées" he takes the listener on an unhappy desert trip, prolonged with "À l'aube d'une ère nouvelle" reflecting even more of the human misery.
"108 Circuits Oscillants Actives" then has a merciless drift like Helios Creed, here's an interchange between guitar and rhythmic percussive sounds I could've listened to 10 minutes longer without getting bored. This shows the true potential here, even if it's obviously not the main interest of ASSID. The final tracks then get back to tenacious developments and are sadly instantly forgettable.

This is a co-release of two small french independents; Notte Brigante and P.M.R. Label and available via both. The limited LP has a hand screen printed cover realized in two different colours, the digital version is very friendly priced.

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