The Thing with Five Eyes is a experimental drone darkjazz project of Jason Köhnen, formerly of the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (which I have shared before here) & The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation. Where those bands mixed jazz with drone & doom elements to create ‘darkjazz’, The Thing with Five Eyes has a fresher appeal, taking electronica & jazz, then throwing in a palette of Middle Eastern sounds / atmospheres to create an album that feels more worldly with fewer mountains.
About The Thing with Five Eyes, Jason sez:
"Our music cleaves the depth of mystical and occult territories of the soul."
On this one Köhnen is aided by Leila Bounos - vocals & Izzy Op De Beeck - trumpet. The harsh unpredictability & brutality of darkness is conveyed through a soundscape of body rumbling bass, intriguing drum/break formations, uncanny sounds of human heaving, electronic manipulations of rattling noises, & the plummeting yet buoyant vocals of the wonderous Algerian/French Leila Bounous who sounds a lot like Natasha Atlas of Transglobal Underground.
Salem
Alma
Hedra
Zigurhat
Nakba
Taurus
Nehex
Qun
Selenga
Enjoy,
NØ
Noirabesque
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