Rhyton - Krater's Call '2023

Tracks list

By the time Rhyton unveiled Krater’s Call on Bandcamp in June of 2020,
against the backdrop of a worldwide pandemic and the George Floyd
demonstrations, four years had gone by since their last album, Redshift, had
been released. These Krater’s Call sessions were tracked in November of
2017 as mere improvisations. It was simply three guys getting together in the
studio and doing what they loved to do - jam.
This collection of songs, while clearly recognizable as Rhyton’s ever
evolving brand of psychedelic meanderings mixed with European, Middle Eastern,
and other worldly folk leanings, is a version of Rhyton we hadn’t quite
heard before. The playing is quite loose and playful. Some of their past
dissonance has been exchanged for warmth. Years of experimentation has led to a
familiarity that allows each musician to open spaces in their playing and fall
into comfortable grooves. They easily and effortlessly feed off each
other’s exploratory wanderings in ways that recall Can or even the
Grateful Dead. All of this plays out in a very entrancing fashion, and sees the
band flirting within the space between blissful heady daydreaming and the desire
to, gulp, dance - something they continue to develop and carry over to
2021’s Pharaonic Crosstalk.
Mike Mannix

Tracklist:
1.01 - Rhyton - The Art of Tripp (6:53)
1.02 - Rhyton - Five Whole (7:04)
1.03 - Rhyton - Kater's Call (8:49)
1.04 - Rhyton - Majesty from Mahrez (6:42)
1.05 - Rhyton - Bowl of Hygieia (7:35)
1.06 - Rhyton - Skygazing (7:45)

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