vykr
Sometimes you just want to forget about the shit in the world and allow your mind to boogie (or whatever the term is now-a-days). ;-)
Favorite track: A2 Norman on the Moon.
Der Ohlsen
"[...] Dope Purple are seasoned sailers steadily piloting their ship through the most ridiculous storms completely unfazed by the winds and waves around them going completely berserk. [...] Brilliant Psych Noise insanity!"
もしも君が本物の夜の闇になったとしたら
幽霊の僕は少し寂しいと思うのさ
生きて
いつかぼくが夜のとばりに
溶けたとしても
あまり気にしないで
ダンスを踊ってくれ
生きて
生きて
生きて
生きててくれ
If you were to become the real darkness of the night
I, a ghost, would feel a little lonely
Stay alive
Even if one day I dissolve
I'll melt away in the night
Don't worry too much
Dance for me
Stay alive
Stay alive
Stay alive
Please, stay alive
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▼WV090: Dope Purple & Berserk - This is the Harsh Trip for New Psyche
台北噪音迷幻怪獸再次蘇醒
月之破音夢魘雨季嶄新旅途
Three years on from the band's acclaimed ‘Grateful End’ album, and following up last year's reissue of their live release ‘Psychedelic Scum Freaks’. Taipei's underground psych monsters Dope Purple return with their new album proper, ‘This Is The Harsh Trip For New Psyche’.
The album is co-released again by Riot Season & WV Sorcerer Productions and is available on three vinyl variants, and also digitally.
The album, it's a mixture of harsh noise and psych rock, the noise element being well recorded and presented so we can hear many details, and blends perfectly with the other instruments in all frequencies. The whole album moves between a spectral sadness and insanity, each track takes a rather different direction, recognising the influence of classic Japanese bands such as High Rise, Mainliner, and Les Rallizes Dénudés.
The album is a collaboration with Berserk, a young underground pioneer from the Taipei scene, and has been performing chaotic frequency manipulation and carefully textured post-apocalyptic soundscape since 2015.
The cover features hand-drawn artwork by Japanese artist 柏木辿 Ten Kashiwagi, and the mixing/mastering was taken care of once again by 濁朗 Darklaw from Japan, perfectly capturing the aesthetic and technical aspects of the recording.
距離首張正式專輯《Grateful End》已經過去了四年多,台北噪音迷幻怪獸 Dope Purple蘇醒回歸,帶來他們的最新專輯《This is the Harsh Trip for New Psyche》。
Like the concept of Yin and Yang, this album has the concepts of Moon/Earth and Curse/Blessing, and under this structure we try to present a narrative of psychedelic rock fused with noise.
Musically, this album is the opposite side of our last album "Psychedelic Scum Freaks". For me, "Psychedelic Scum Freaks" is the "fiercest" album I've ever accidentally made, and it's one of the achievements I've had in mind for a long time.
It gave me a great sense of achievement, but at the same time it gave me a sense of pressure.
Dope Purple had to go beyond "Psychedelic Scum Freaks", but I didn't want to do it in exactly the same way. So for "This is the Harsh Trip for New Psyche" we invited Taiwanese noise musician Berserk to do the same approach as on the last album, fusing "psychedelic rock" with "harsh noise", but instead of "extreme" we explored the possibilities of "experimental".
At the same time, this album is a collection of my "love songs", every song is filled with my "love" and "challenge" for my favourite bands. You could also say that I reinterpreted my favourite songs in the style of "Noise Rock".
One of the reasons was that due to the pandemic we couldn't do a cross-country production as smoothly as before (the album was mixed at 濁朗 Darklaw's house in Japan).
But the other reason is that I couldn't deal with the chaos of that time either. It was only after a period of calm that I was able to face my inner turmoil and chaos, and I finally realised that I had sacrificed a lot of people for the sake of making music.
Therefore, I changed the lyrics and reconstructed the album under the theme of Sci-Fi Fable.
接下來Dope Purple需要超越《Psychedelic Scum Freaks》,但我不想再用完全一樣的方法了。因此在《This is the Harsh Trip for New Psyche》,我們邀請台灣噪音音樂家Berserk,跟上一張專輯一樣進行了「Harsh Noise」跟「Psychedelic Rock」的融合,然而其重點不在於「兇 Extreme」,而是探討了更豐富的「可能性 Experimental」。
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