Arno Boytel’s Special Deliverance – The Mystic Dance (2016) Blues Rock/Psychedelic Rock from: France

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Hermanos, con este jodido calor esta que me revienta los cojones!, pero gracias a la música de nuestro hermano Arno Boytel desde Francia nos hace llegar este material que lanzó en el 2016 y que realizó la versión en Vinil bajo el sello Nasoni!, como en el anterior review de Magic Shades Blues; Arno nos ambienta estos dias con sol acojonante mientras me encuentro enmedio del pavimento y unos audifonos quemandome la piel e imaginando un viejo oeste mexicano muy al estilo de las clásicas de Clint Eastwood!. No se imaginan como son de quemantes las aburridas calles de pachuca, pero ahi vamos caminando siempre con un hoyo en las suelas de los zapatos y con Arno Boytel sonando en nuestro andar!.¿A donde nos dirigimos? Por supuesto hermanos!, por una jodida cerveza y si se me da la gana a fumar un poco… al ritmo de The Mystic Dance!! Miguel Krieg.

English version:

Brothers and sisters, with this godamn hot weather i feel like my cojones will explode!, but thanks to the music from our brother Arno Boytel from France he send to us their album released by 2016 and now in vinyl under the label Nasoni, like the past review, he bless us with his music and this sunny hot days while Im walking on the street under the sun and with headphones listening to Mystic dance, my skin is burning, you don’t believe how burning and dry are the mexican pachuca streets, its like a old western movie from Mr. Eastwood!, but here we are walking on the street with our wasted shoes but with very amazing music, where did we go? Of course brothers!, we go for a cold beer and if we like to smoke some pot witht he mystic dance playing!. The english version of this is here on a few pharagraphs down.

Escrito por: Miguel Krieg
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Para Arno Boytel, acerca de su album, mystic dance:

Escribo estas líneas al despertar después de sueños con mujeres jóvenes de tres ojos y escuchar el nombre de una mujer repetidamente en mi cabeza, justo para emplear todas las energías que recuperé después de aspirar el polvo de la ciudad por más de 16 horas seguidas, ese polvo ensordecedor y asfixiante, mi escape es: la música. El material que Arno me proporcionó no tiene comparación alguna ya que me atrapa en un ambiente sonoro desértico y lisérgico. No se si se trate de algún material conceptual pero los tracks me van guiando hacia un paisaje con peyotes y el sol ardiendo sobre mi cerebro quemando los pensamientos más superfluos por los que uno coloca una importancia suprema… que estupidez! Yo reclamo por mis derechos “FIGHT FOR MY RIGHTS”, el derecho de tomar mi mochila y largarme con el resto de dinero que me sobra por una carretera polvorienta usando tan solo mis pies y mis botas como recurso para huir del mundo que está podrido. Soy de los que aún guarda una esperanza por la unión del hombre con la naturaleza, pero aveces es una utopía que estoy obligado a tragarme… pero aún así yo reclamo mis derechos!.

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“WALKIN ALL OVER THE TOWN me traslada a esas caminatas a pie bajo el sol, donde los excesos ya no son nada para mí, mi cuerpo se encuentra cansado de tanta porquería y solo quiero caminar por todo el pueblo, vagabundear”

 

Llego a un pueblo donde no existe la ley, es la ciudad del pecado y el riff introductorio es verdaderamente rompecojones, pareciera un verdadero himno para los que caminamos sin rumbo y gustan de ser brutalmente honestos, un verdadero misántropo desértico que ve con indiferencia lo que le rodea, piensa solamente en olvidar su vida pasada de excesos y va al encuentro de la danza mística en contacto directo con la salvaje y despiadada naturaleza. El sonido de las guitarras con ese reverb le dan un toque mágico y sumamente ambiental casi como la música de Davie Allan y sus Arrows. WALKIN ALL OVER THE TOWN me traslada a esas caminatas a pie bajo el sol, donde los excesos ya no son nada para mí, mi cuerpo se encuentra cansado de tanta porquería y solo quiero caminar por todo el pueblo, vagabundear bajo el sol hasta que las comisuras de los labios de rajen en tiras tiesas de carne sangrante. Que delicioso tema hermanos!,… no suena al blues rock del gran Muddy Waters que miles emulan en pleno siglo XXI, suena a un blues rock lisérgico setentero, suena a blues rock de foragidos.

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Runnin’ to the stars es como ir hacia unos antiquísimos megalitos enmedio del desierto. ¿Qué personas pudieron haber dejado enormes piedras de 6 metros de altura mirando hacia las estrellas… precisamente en dirección a la galaxia próxima de andrómeda? Un antiguo ritual se dice se celebraba en aquel lugar en donde un portal se lograba abrir con la ayuda de la bendita planta de peyote. El bajo da la sensación de que te encuentras siempre en acción, corriendo o iendo en dirección hacia algo, y es muy utilizado en la música de fines de los 70’s, principalmente con las bandas de postpunk y new wave, industrial (me sorprende la riqueza musical del compositor Arno Boytel) todo esto sobre una intensa capa de guitarras psicodélicas o más bien guitarras que se parecen al tiempo que va pasando pero en alta velocidad…

“joder que maravilla!, más la guitarra con ese dulce vibrato mi cuerpo comienza a supurar LSD y sustancias tóxicas donde el malviaje de haber estado en aquellos megalítos hacen que me tumbe en mi cama”

 

Los arreglos en Thinkin’ on my bed son impresionantes aún así se trate de la flauta realizando notas sobre la misma escala. Es un tema bastante introspectivo que nos deleita con ese cambio de tonalidad a mitad de verso y … joder que maravilla más la guitarra con ese dulce vibrato mi cuerpo comienza a supurar LSD y sustancias tóxicas donde el malviaje de haber estado en aquellos megalítos hacen que me tumbe en mi cama, dispuesto a recibir la bendición de los dioses del desierto. El sonido de una guitarra acústica nos previene de un excelente track inspirado tal vez en pink floyd (cymballine), hawkwind o can, en donde después o antes del malviaje psicodélico nos tranquilizan con un tema acústico con arreglos impresionantes como anteriormente lo dije.

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Mirage es la locura, el viaje psicodélico a la perfección donde comienzas con ese fervor y felicidad de poder escapar en donde crees que eres el maldito rey del desierto, sin embargo el viaje te arrastra hacia un vórtice del que jamás podrás salir, sé por experiencia el miedo que se siente al saber que probablemente te quedarás en el camino mientras traes colgada alguna sustancia pero es necesario dominar ese miedo y esa caída gravitacional de tu mente para llegar a lo supremo, al origen de todas las cosas en donde puedes ver lo invisible y escuchar lo inescuchable como dice el libro del Tao. Aquí la influencia de Hawkwind es innegable me dió la misma sensacion de vértigo que la primera vez que escuché el track Paranoia.

“Million Stars Away es impresionante, es un sonido auténticamente antiguo y bien trabajado. Las notas drone siempre en mi inconciente generarán una sensación de paz y armonía”

El hammond en Million Stars Away es impresionante, es un sonido auténticamente antiguo y bien trabajado. Las notas drone siempre en mi inconciente generarán una sensación de paz y armonía, esto unido junto al track Mystical Dance que es un excelente ejemplo de música experimental mezclando muchos sonidos: el de percusiones y otros instrumentos, la flauta que emerge de entre la nota drone. Esto es música orgánica y natural, pero a la vez guarda un cierto aire místico mágico, como si me encontrara con una civilización antigua que en sus rituales tocaran esta música… tal vez antiguos hombres de cro-magnon adorando a sus dioses ancestrales que realmente bajaron de las estrellas y fueron ellos quienes tallaron y colocaron esos monolítos que ahora observo mientras el peyote bondadosamente abandona mi cuerpo.

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ENGLISH VERSION.

I write these lines when I wake up from a dream about third eyed girls and a woman name on my head…,so I just wake up to use all the energies I recovered after inhaling the dust of the city for more than 16 hours straight, that deafening and deadening dust, my escape is: music. The material that Arno gave me has no comparison since it traps me in a desolate and lysergic sound environment. I do not know if it is some conceptual material but the tracks are guiding me towards a landscape with peyotes and the sun burning over my brain… erasing the most superfluous thoughts for which one places a supreme importance … que demonios! I claim for my rights, the right to take my backpack and get away with the rest of the money I have left over a dusty road using only my feet and boots as a resource to escape the rotten world. I am one of those who still have hope for the union of man with nature, but sometimes it is a utopia that I am forced to swallow … but still I claim my rights !.

I come to a town where the law does not exist, it is the city of sin and the introductory riff is truly “rompecojones” (kickass), it seems a true hymn for those of us who walk aimlessly and use to be brutally honest, a true desert misanthrope who sees with indifference what surrounds him, thinks only of forgetting his past life of excess and goes to meet the mystical dance in direct contact with the wild and ruthless nature. The sound of the guitars with that reverb give it a magical and highly ambient touch almost like the music of Davie Allan and his Arrows, that old tone from a sg vintage model and the bulb amplifiers, the true sound untouched by godamn protools stuff, Davie Allan must be proud!.

Runnin ‘to the stars is like going to some ancient megaliths in the middle of the desert. Why people could have left those huge stones (6 meters high) looking towards the stars? … precisely in the direction of the next galaxy of andromeda? An ancient ritual is said to be held in that place where a portal could be opened with the help of the blessed peyote plant. The bass gives the feeling that you are always in action, running or going in the direction of something, and is very used in the music of the late 70’s, mainly with the bands of postpunk and new wave, industrial (I am surprised by the wealth musical of the composer Arno Boytel) all this on an intense layer of psychedelic guitars or rather guitars that look like time passing but at high speed… and I feelt so stoned.

The arrangements in Thinkin ‘on my bed are impressive even if it is the flute making notes on the same scale. It is a very introspective theme that delights us with that change of tone in the middle of verse and … fuck that amazes me!… the guitar with that sweet vibrato inmediatly my body begins to ooze LSD and toxic substances where the trip of having been in those megaliths make me lie on my bed and think…, ready to receive the blessing of the desert gods. The sound of an acoustic guitar prevents us from an excellent track inspired perhaps by pink floyd (cymballine), hawkwind or can on their healing closing track “give me some coffe, damn!. The texture of the flute is really mezmerizing! I cannot describe it with words only that Arno and the guest flutist Michel “Seuls” Thiboult are doing a “spiritual talking” with their music. This is the real and ultimate music from the world!.

Mirage is madness, the psychedelic journey to perfection where you start with that fervor and happiness of being able to escape where you think you are the damn king of the desert, however the journey drags you into a vortex from which you can never go, I know from experience the fear that is felt to know that you will probably stay on the road while you are hanging some substance but it is necessary to master that fear and that gravitational drop of your mind to reach the supreme, the origin of all things where you can see the invisible and listen to the unsearchable as the Tao book says. Here, the influence of Hawkwind is undeniable and gave me the same sensation of vertigo as the first time I heard the track Paranoia from Hawkwind.

The hammond in Million Stars Away is impressive, it is an authentically old and well-worked sound. Drone notes are always in my unconscious and will generate a sense of peace and harmony, this together with the track Mystical Dance is an excellent example of experimental music mixing many sounds: the percussion and som kind of wooden percussion with water, the flute that emerges from the note drone . This is organic and natural music, but at the same time it keeps a certain magical mystical air, as if I found an ancient civilization that in its rituals played this music … perhaps ancient cro-magnon men worshiping their ancient gods They really came down from the stars and it was they who carved and placed those monoliths that I now observe while the peyote kindly leaves my body, and then.. the mystic dance begins!.

 

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BREVE ENTREVISTA CON ARNO BOYTEL, MENTE MAESTRA DETRAS DE ESTA MÚSICA

 

SP ¿There’s a whole concept album on the mystic dance album?

Arno: Not really, but the main themes of this album are the fight for his own rights, a self reflection maybe for a better life… It speaks dreams I have too, like strange mirage, mystic dance with stars sometimes haha

SP ¿Your music here sounds like a western desert lysergic ambience, why did you get that sounds?

A: Ho Thanks ! I have listened and studied the 60’/70′ sounds a lot, and after a while, during different bands’s experiences, I wanted to make something different, more personal and authentic. I wanted to mix Tribal and Exotic percussions with Heavy and Psychedelic sounds of Electric Guitars, Organ ETC.

SP ¿Where came the main riff from the song walking all over the town?

A: I was jamming and working Guitar and I thought this Guitar and Bass riff.

SP: ¿What effect pedals did you use on your guitar on songs like Mirage or mystic dance?

A: All sounds effect pedals are the “Liverpool” Tech 21 (Vox amp Simulator), A Dunlop Wha-Wha, Electro harmonix Delay and a Ebow, It’s like an electronic Bow. I love this sound, sometimes close of the Robert Fripp sound…and I love King Crimson…

SP: ¿Who is the flutist, could tell us some more about him?

A: The Flutist (and percussionnist for the mystic dance song) Is Michel Thiboult, he has played for many Psychedelic and experimental Jam sessions In Paris since the 90′ years. He played With Aqua nebula oscillator, Music Magic, shaman Bottle ETC. and he play with me since 2015.

SP: I was really amazed how good is the song thinking in my bed, feels like an authentic representation of myself smoking pot on my bed or just thinking on a sunny hot day, where came from this song?

A: Like you ! I was thinking on my bed but drinking my beer, with the In a Gadda la vida sound on my record player and the inspiration came for the lyrics… music came later, one or two days after. I thought something like John Martyn or Roy Harper like Progressive Folk. I think The Flute is very important on this track.

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SP. I like a lot the chord progression of that song (thinking on my bed) feels like a jump!, could share to us the chord progression to play on guitar on a smoking psychedelic party?

A: yes, E min – C min and F# is the chord progression.

SP: What is the concept of The Mystic Dance song? I listen a hell lot of layers of sounds and percussions!
A: The mystic dance is an Experimental Jam In two mouvements.

SP: Do you consider yourself a experimenter by nature?
A: For the music yes !

SP: Did you study some music took classes or are you a do it yourself musician?
A: I studied three years In a musical school In France, but I think, the best music school is the jam sessions and play everyday.

SP: Could we jam in the future if we go to France or you come to Mexico?
A: A jam together ? yes, of course ! It would be nice brother !

SP: Who made the artwork of the mystic dance front cover? Looks like a mirrored image!.

A: ho yes ! It’s like a mirror ! This is a picture made by myself In Pompei, Italy. Do you know the band : Greatest show on earth ? I was inspired by the Inside cover of their album “Horizons”.

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SP: Where people can get the LP of this amazing masterpiece?

A: The best place you can get the LP Is directly with my new label records, Nasoni Records, and I’m proud and happy today to be on their side for music !

https://www.nasoni-records.com/catalogue/arno-boytel-special-deliverance-release-mystic-dance.html?formatinfo=19

 

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