Happy accidents waveriders. They occur from time to time in all of our lives, or at least I hope they do. It would be a travesty if I was the only person who experienced the cosmos producing an unexpected, joyful result to a thought or action not intended to produce said result. For example, I found Orgöne and their album Mos Fet thinking I was listening to a completely different band. Am I happy about that? Unquestionably yes!
I know what you’re saying. Orgöne is kind of a unique band name (actually, my research turned up a couple of other bands named Orgone without the accent but that’s neither here nor there). How could you have mistaken them for someone else? Excellent question! Here’s how. I was perusing the CDs on sale at a site I visit all the time and I saw the listing for Mos Fet. Because I’d previously heard the owner of this site talk about the virtues/eccentricities of a band named Oregon I assumed that this album was from the same group. Come to find out that is absolutely not the case, but I enjoy this album so much I sincerely appreciate the happy accident!
What does Orgöne sound like then? This is far out, wild and wooly, psychedelic space rock. And it’s heavy as all get out as well! Mos Fet takes the listener on a journey through a strange, yet strangely inviting musical landscape filled with undulating bass lines, jagged guitar riffs, planetary-body-moving organ lines, frenzied drumming, and female vocals which vacillate between ear-pleasingly hypnotic and downright unhinged. I meant what I said before. This album is wild!
Complementing the music Orgöne structured this album in a very interesting manner. Mos Fet starts and ends with two songs just under the twenty minute mark. That’s right. When you buy a ticket for this ride, you’d better buckle up immediately because it’s full go from minute one all the way through minute seventy eight. “Erstes Ritual” leaps out of the starting gate and “Astral Fancy” builds into a truly cacophonous conclusion. In between are six more straightforward tracks. Scratch that. Let me try again. In between are six tracks that simply cram their madness into a more compact run-time. “Requiem For A Dead Cosmonaut” and “Rhyme Of The Ancient Astronaut” pick up the high energy baton and maintain their pace, while tracks like “East Song” and “Soviet Hot Dog (Le Tombeau De Laika)” start slowly only to hit high gear in their latter halves. Lastly if you fancy the stoner/doom metal, and I know you do, make sure you program “Mothership Egypt” on repeat.
Waveriders I am exceedingly happy that I found Mos Fet by Orgöne! It doesn’t matter that I discovered the album believing it was from a similarly named band. All that matters is that the craziness of this music speaks to me, and I find it immensely enjoyable! Why don’t you join me? There’s plenty of crazy to go around!
-Penfold
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