The second album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, vibraphone, marimba, bass, guitars, ebow and vocals.
One guest added guitars and loops.
This fifty-five minutes long album is the follow up album to the Suffer album (1995) which I gave a good review last month.
The band is a Gong splinter group where the jazz/fusion elements from that band has been carried over into Gongzilla.
That means off course a bit quirky jazz and fusion.
Allan Holdsworth has left the band by now and has been replaced by two different guitarists. One as a permanent member and one as a guest here. That is a loss to this band as Allan Holdsworth, who sadly left us a few years ago, was a great guitarist. The same cannot be said about the two replacements. Hence, no great guitar solos here.
The music is pretty funky and it has some avant-garde elements too.
The quality is somewhere between decent and good. This album is a step backwards compared to Suffer, I am afraid.
2.5 points
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