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Their newest recordings (four incredibly cool Hard Psych/early prog compositions) plus a selections of their best material from their past vinyl releases. All songs for the first time on CD. It's the best psychedelic Italian band, pure late sixties sound, between the last fires of the late beat era and the strongly psychedelic hard blues rise. They're young, with a spectacular look, impeccable during the live shows. Their songs are direct and incisive. They're the original witnesses of a musical era called 'underground' during the late Italian sixties. Their sound is born from an original vintage equipment. The lyrics are in Italian. The singer's prodigious voice and the very high technical level are enriched by the Hammond organ recent entry, Apollo Negri (from Link Quartet, Wicked Minds) with his unbelievable sound impact, by the new guitar player Andrea Garbo (former Slowtime Mondays) with his great distortions and sound effects. Mastica are well known in the mod-sixties European scene thanks to the several live shows in important festivals (Euro Ye Ye, A Hazy Shade of Winter, Le Beat BespokÞ, Go Lleida, Magic Festival, Beat Epoque etc.).
MASTICA - Bitt In Garage (Teen Sound; CD)After my instant reaction to these Italian guys Crusher 45 I wasinitially a little despondent to this full length CD. Why? I dunno. Maybe Iexpected more after the fab single -- and the album's a bit too lengthy; thelast three early recordings are really not necessary. Still, by the thirdlisten the songs were starting to jump out of the speakers a bit more.'Lettera Aperta A 'Il Ragno'' is a bona fide dose of heavy progressive rockwith some manic 'oomp ah' vocal segments and choppy Deep Purple changes and'Mi Fai Stare Bene' goes all '70s Who with a nice falsetto call and responsevocal. Very stadium! The mood is pretty varied throughout with moves towardsboozey R&B, hard garage/rock, psych and later period anglophile mod stuff,but I'm not too sure about the Italian language cover version of 'SpaceOddity' or the crisp, clean production. As one of the elder SD scribescommented 'These sound like a third rate band that played at my Youth Clubin 1970'. For many, that's a good enough recommendation. And yes, thisreally does have some fine moments, but it just doesn't kick like thesingle... still, these hairy Itis are a band to definitely watch out for. Jon "Mojo" Mills
The mighty Mastica are back. You certainly get your money’s worth with Bilt in Garage, the new album from Italy’s finest, which offers new tracks, fresh workings of tracks from the first album (Treize Cigarettes), and some early demos. The new material features a different Mastica to that of the first album, exhibiting a little less of the frivolous edge and more no nonsense song writing determination. While we miss the glorious, ridiculously shrill vocal flexing of Mad (our favourite hairy vocalist, with our favourite hairy vocalist name), the whole sound is now solidly augmented by some super fine Hammond organ work by Apollo. Remarkable restraint is shown in songs like S(e) V’Entrando and Uccido Il Blues, which have a big, bold freeform live performance written all over them, waiting to happen. If the title Bilt in Garage seems somewhat unbefitting for a band more noted for its heavy riffs and high octane vocals, it probably has its origin in the early demos – Black Way, No Right No Way and In The Dark – raw and punk edged tunes dating back to 1997. Of course the fidelity on these is low. Several tracks from the first album are also included, reworked with more Hammond (this time from Alessandro Bombardini). Curiously, these tracks predate the versions on Treize Cigarettes (released in 2004), for which the organs were dropped. Not everything on this album is brilliant – Karma seems more suited to being a hidden track, and a lyrical reworking of Bowie’s Space Oddity a single b-side – but that’s it, everything else is acid rock gold dust.
Descripción. Ya conocido grupo italiano, la facción más dura del rollo mod y allegados, hard- psychedelia cargada de órgano Hammond, aquí una selección de sus mejores temas más 4 temas inéditos, van 19 canciones en total.
MASTICA - Uomini 7" (mastica.it) ... kannst Du möglicherweise hier kaufen! Wild und heftig treiben es MASTICA aus Italien. "Uomini" donnert irgendwo zwischen derbem 70s Psychedelic, Krautrock und leichten Swamp Blues-Klängen. Da fällt es gar nicht auf, dass die auch noch in der Heimatsprache singen. Auf der B-Seite mit "Seemo chi spara" dann ein richtiges Freudenfest. Assoziationen zu solchen Sixties-Legenden wie THE LITTER, THE ELECTRAS oder THE HAUNTED kommen auf. Wer gerne etwas aktuellere Vergleiche lesen möchte, der sei auf die Reinkarnation THE FUZZTONES verwiesen. Wer deren wildere Frühphase zu schätzen weiß, der sollte sich diese Single dringendst anschaffen. Info unter mastica.it. (08/10)
