Aluk Todolo

 


Today my third post of this blog is dedicated to Aluk Todolo, instrumental psychedelic French trio with 20 years of activities.

Formed in Grenoble in 2004, their first three releases ( the self-titled in EP and their first two albums, Obedience and Finsternis) were characterised by extremely raw jam session with a lo-fi production, like early black metal but played by Hawkwind.
After recording a collaboration album with the Austrian band Der Blutharsch, in 2012 the trio released their maturation album, which is Occult Rock.

Occult Rock is not only the name the album, but it's the also the name of the style by which the band define itself. The album is made of eight long instrumental tracks in a perfect combination of black metal, punk, space-rock, surf rock and post-rock.

From Occult Rock, the trio took the distance from the earliest work and the raw lo-fi sounds of the beginning is replaced by a more defined sound with more geometrical composition like in the following albums Voix ( 2016, an entire composition divided in 5 parts) and Lux (2024), between King Crimson and Don Caballero in their golden years.

The band:
antoine hadjioannou drums
matthieu canaguier bass
shantidas riedacker guitar

Bandcamp


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Descension


Finsternis



Occult Rock


Voix



Lux











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