The Spanish Donkey: Raoul auf 2 LPs

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The sound of Joe Morris’ electric guitar, with distortion pedal set on stun and wah-wah pedal fully engaged, colliding with Jamie Saft’s droning, microtonal organ and Mike Pride's thunderous free drumming approach to the kit creates a mind-numbing maelstrom on The Spanish Donkey's Raoul, the improvising trio's debut on RareNoise records.

A follow-up to XYX, their 2011 album, which was released on Northern Spy Records. The album consists of threethrobbing tracks – the brutal 32- minute title track Raoul, the 22-minute »Behavioral Sink« and 16-minute Echoplex piano feature »Dragon Fly Jones« – that showcase The Spanish Donkey's remarkable group-think as well as the individual player's uncanny intuition on their respective instruments.

More intensely cathartic, startlingly original and compelling than anything you've ever heard – imagine a mash-up of John Coltrane's Interstellar Space and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music – Raoul stands as a hellacious manifesto by one of the most formidable improvising trios around today.