Holy Tongue meets Shackleton - The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now

A real sizzler of a collaboration between Holy Tongue, the trio of Valentina Magaletti, Al Wooton and Susumu Mukai, and Shackleton, their shared adventuring perspectives making for a genuinely intoxicating mesh of experimental dub and rhythm. Because Magaletti is involved you know the drum work is gonna be doing a lot of the heavy lifting - and why not make the most of such a strong weapon in your armory? - but there's an awful lot going on here besides, the production hyper-detailed and inventive in ways that recall the post-punk dub experimentation of African Head Charge, 23 Skidoo and even Muslimgauze at times, while Tomaga's influence also looms large, mostly that sense of boundarylessness that defined their entire approach to genre and composition. Fluidity is perhaps the best way of understanding it when you've a set of highly adept musicians working in simpatico who are willing to ghost between the accepted lines, stretch things out, push them to their illogical conclusions and so forth. As such, there's a little fourth world feeling colouring the edges throughout, overlapping, sometimes rootless sound and influence, and the impression that if they just kept on going you'd have no idea where they might end up but follow them just the same.