Belgian Mystic Drone Doom entity Wyatt E. is back with a new work so biblically epic, it cannot be finished on just one album.
(If you order that album directly from the band however, you might get a free live recording on top of it.)
WYATT E. - Zamāru Ultu Qereb Ziqquratu Part 1 (gold vinyl LP) (2025)
Where "Āl Bēlūti Dārû" consisted of just two mammoth tracks, the trio now spreads its ideas on five songs. And since each one explores a different direction - with some being garnished with guest viola or stunning vocal performances by Nina Saedi and Tomer Damsky - the overall impression is that the familiar epochal vibe may be chopped into smaller pieces, but with the album certainly being more versatile that makes the story it tells even bigger.
Even without the guest appearences Wyatt E. use their regular instrumentation, which besides drums, bass and guitar includes a lot of further percussion, synth and saz, in manifold ways, expanding their own cosmos. It's a sonic Holy Land of Near and Middle Eastern sounds and melodies, fantastic Dead Can Dance and Post Rock atmospheres embedded into a base of droning ritualistic Doom.
Yes, Bong worshippers - yet not only them - should naturally love this band. Beyond that I'm really struggling to explain this album and what makes it special. Maybe it has something to do with its incompleteness. The album title as well as the opener "Qaqqari Lā Târi" are both markes as a Part 1, so how can I possibly judge the whole picture with confidence?
What I can say is that again this music is criminally good and that once the picture will be completed we will hopefully able to affirm that Wyatt E. have outdone themselves. At least the signs are pointing into that direction. The artwork with the golden vinyl of course looks great, together with a multilingual lyric sheet adding up to a beautiful total impression.
And then there's of course the little extra if you order from the right source...
Even without the guest appearences Wyatt E. use their regular instrumentation, which besides drums, bass and guitar includes a lot of further percussion, synth and saz, in manifold ways, expanding their own cosmos. It's a sonic Holy Land of Near and Middle Eastern sounds and melodies, fantastic Dead Can Dance and Post Rock atmospheres embedded into a base of droning ritualistic Doom.
Yes, Bong worshippers - yet not only them - should naturally love this band. Beyond that I'm really struggling to explain this album and what makes it special. Maybe it has something to do with its incompleteness. The album title as well as the opener "Qaqqari Lā Târi" are both markes as a Part 1, so how can I possibly judge the whole picture with confidence?
What I can say is that again this music is criminally good and that once the picture will be completed we will hopefully able to affirm that Wyatt E. have outdone themselves. At least the signs are pointing into that direction. The artwork with the golden vinyl of course looks great, together with a multilingual lyric sheet adding up to a beautiful total impression.
And then there's of course the little extra if you order from the right source...
WYATT E. - Live at Roadburn 2022 (CD) (2025)
As a free surprise giveaway my Bandcamp order also included this live CD from a Roadburn show I missed even though I actually was in the front row of the temporary tent version of the Hall of Fame for a moment. How the hell that happened can be looked up in my live report, between the paragraphs about Sólstafir and Zaäar. Luckily I had the chance to see the band in Copenhagen a year later - and I will see them later this year as well, so that pain has eased. (Plus I did see the Atonia show, on which Wyatt E. collaborated with Five The Hierophant at the same Roadburn edition!)
But of course it's still great to experience the Roadburn show now on this official bootleg, which the band intentionally left simple: no elaborate cover artwork, all three (or four if you count the intro) pieces are crammed into one forty-minute track and maybe one or two further steps could have been done production-wise to boost the sound. That being said, the album does not sound bad! It's very listenable on the high and of good bootleg quality.
With the music being the two halfs of "Āl Bēlūti Dārû" bridged by an instrumental version of the hit single "Kol Badai", which features Tomer Damsky in the studio version, there naturally isn't anything to complain about in that regard. As this was an early show in the tour cycle the band claims that their improvisations didn't go as far as later on, but that's ok. Wyatt E. just know how to create a magical, heavy yet meditative atmosphere.
And "Live at Roadburn 2022" captures that perfectly.
But of course it's still great to experience the Roadburn show now on this official bootleg, which the band intentionally left simple: no elaborate cover artwork, all three (or four if you count the intro) pieces are crammed into one forty-minute track and maybe one or two further steps could have been done production-wise to boost the sound. That being said, the album does not sound bad! It's very listenable on the high and of good bootleg quality.
With the music being the two halfs of "Āl Bēlūti Dārû" bridged by an instrumental version of the hit single "Kol Badai", which features Tomer Damsky in the studio version, there naturally isn't anything to complain about in that regard. As this was an early show in the tour cycle the band claims that their improvisations didn't go as far as later on, but that's ok. Wyatt E. just know how to create a magical, heavy yet meditative atmosphere.
And "Live at Roadburn 2022" captures that perfectly.
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