Gala Drop & Ben Chasny

***Lisbon's GALA DROP have been paving the way in recent years towards an aggregative, universionalist stance on the existentially groovy as a crucial vessel towards enlightenment and understanding amongst the human race. Working around their core unit of AFONSO SIMOES (drums), GUILHERME GONCALVES (electric guitar) and NELSON GOMES (synthesizers), here they find themselves cooperating for the first time with the wonderfully psychedelically vigorous bass playing of RUL DAMASO (part of the legendary LOOSERS) and the topographically globetrotting ways of wayward adventurer conga orchestrator JERRY THE CAT (formerly a part of FUNKADELIC/PARLIAMENT and C.J. & CO. touring bands; and later performed on records of Carl Craig, Recloose, Moodymann, Theo Parrish, and many others), both now members of the band. On Broda they're joined by BEN CHASNY (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITANCE, COMETS ON FIRE, etc.), truly one of the most powerful forces in US guitar soul in recent decades. Broda careens through in three passages of positively organized jamming. The fruits of a week's very intense work on freedom and democracy in the collective artistic gesture revealed in only the slightest of documentarian restraints, so as to excuse us into peeking into this cosmology of friendship and eternalization of the luminous. 
 
One can hear an extremely cultured and simultaneously instinctive notion of the history of dance music, from the primitively tribalized to the absolutely contemporary. Latin American grooves viewed from a Luso-Detroitian angle; a Californian guitar player doing 100% authentic Lisbon-longing solos backed by a Lisbon band; house & dub processing techniques at the disposal of a technoid-soul rhythm machine that has as deep an understanding of both French existentialist keyboard hell, as they do of the Fania All-Stars discography. Such absurdity turned into coherence can only be the product of today - best be as alive as possible to attune oneself to these sounds of advancement as the miracles that they are. Available for the first time in America. One time pressing.