David Rodriguez (GODTET/Sampa The Great)
self-produced albums - released in unison with the birth of the commercial Zambian recording industry are exuberant experiments in garage rock
" as I had scribbled down that it felt like a duel between two very different artists from the golden age of private press New Age: one kosmische-inspired synth wizard hellbent on taking me to space and another guy who just wants to lull me into a blissful
The album's immense atmospheres and its seemingly boundless imaginative force stem primarily from its crisp but layered and dense production quality that works as a catalyst to channel an unseen and massive sensorial overload of sound in which cinematic and multilayered vocal arrangements (the temple's "choir")
The Bleakest Force by Early Death
Scream - Still Screaming LP xx2007 David Rodriguez (GODTET/Sampa The Great)You might think of Scream as a minor footnote in American Youth Music Cultures, obviously a part of the creative renaissance that was US Hardcore Punk, and the silly media spectacle of Grunge (Dave Two Timer Grohl would eventually sit on the drum stool), but as a stand alone record its very, very satisfying. Still Screaming (1983), release #9 in the Dischord catalog, is the first single band full length album on the label and sits at a mid point