"Thaw are the latest offshoot of Loop Guru, the London based global fusion duo whose name has become synonymous with Summer festivals and blissed out breakbeats. Thaw's debut album attempts to fuse together sacred chanting to a form of trance music. [+]"Thaw are the latest offshoot of Loop Guru, the London based global fusion duo whose name has become synonymous with Summer festivals and blissed out breakbeats. Thaw's debut album attempts to fuse together sacred chanting to a form of trance music. It's a brave attempt and will no doubt enthrall those who have waited five years for new material from Loop Guru."
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ALTERNATIVE PRESS
AlbumHoly Cat (Elsewhen:www.elsewhen.org.uk)
Rating> 7
Who?
British ethno-trance-funk combo led by Sam Dodson and Jym Daly of the genre's pioneers, Loop Guru.
Sounds like:
Exotic, psychedelic world-beat fusions designed to put listeners in an ecstatic trance.
How is it?
Slightly less sacred sounding than Loop Guru's sublime work, Holy Cat aims more for the dance floor than the meditation room, and it'll put you in a righteous lather.
Kindred Spirits: DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Transglobal Underground, Banco De Gaia.
UNCUT
Modern Trance from Sam and Jym of Loop Guru.
Best known for melding post-rave dance/trance with a scholarly use of Far Eastern music and samples, Loop Guru have been unfaily edged out of dance music history by lesser populists and outright charlatans. Undiscouraged, Sam Dodson aka Salman Gita and cohort 'Mad Jym' return here with thaw, the first new Guru project in five years, 'an ecstatic fusion of sacred chant and urban shamanic trance' - in other words, more of the infinate same.
Best here are "Love me" "Give me your attention, I want you to love me" - a satire, perhaps, on the spurious shamanism of celebrity culture, "No Separation" with its fleeting nod to Debussy, and "Simplicity" an excursuion into mental galaxies that leaves you happily stranded way, way inside your head.
David Stubbs - UNCUT
THE GLASS EYE
Thaw
Holy Cat
3.5 eyes
This has become one of my favorite albums. The first time I put it in the cd player, I was intrigued, the trance pulled me in and hasn't let go yet! It calls to me sometimes, "Put me in the cd player."
Sam Dodson described his new venture as "devotional music," but let's not get the wrong idea! This is not gospel; This is not religion shoved down your throat; this is not something you would hear in a church... at least I don't think so (there are some strange churches out there). It
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