Volume 1. by the Man from Atlantis
"We are crazy about this album.
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, The Man From Atlantis is an artist that creates a particularly unique psychedelic folk rock melange that is rich with heart, empathy and dream-like atmospheres.
Throughout this release, TMFA combines elements of American bluegrass, blues and even Indian classical music together into raw expressions of acid-influenced catharsis. Some tracks, like the meditative “Death Rattle,” feature pastoral acoustic mantras that eventually bloom into full hallucinatory meanderings, complete with Matt Valentine-like fried electric solos. These, as well as all of the other tracks, feel as though the artist is actively breaching through their own darkness, and finding a light that moves them forward in real time.
Other highlights include the tearfully poignant “Wondering Star (Love in Outer Space)” and the bedraggled and painfully tender tribute to the late Anthony Bourdain, “Travel Light.”
For a record that feels like it understands you more than you even understand yourself, check out The Man From Atlantis’ first of what I hope will be many volumes."
Record Crates United, July 2021
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"This enigmatic Melbourne-based musician takes a freaky, free-folk approach to the American Primitive Guitar genre exemplified by John Fahey, employing acoustic fingerpicking alongside slide, distortion and mumbled yet melodic vocals.
‘Wandering Star (Love In Outer Space)’marks out The Man out as a fellow traveller to Ben Chasny, James Blackshaw and Sir Richard Bishop, while the loose, percussive ‘Travel Light (For Anthony Bourdain)’ continuously threatens to fall apart, but somehow holds together like some roadworn pre-war jalopy.
Two longer tracks sit at the record’s heart: ‘Engulfed In Flames’ begins with eerie whines and whistles beneath the tentative strums, before resolving into a confident folk instrumental with modal North African overtones.
‘Death Rattle’ meanwhile is a deconstructed, lo-fi country-blues featuring several full-on psych-noise freak-outs. Ending with the metallic scrape, strum, shimmer and spike of ‘Relax… None Of This Matters Anyway’, Volume 1 is a tantalising introduction to this Man’s evocative, undersea kingdom."
Ben Graham
Shingdig Magazine
, Aug, 2021
Tracklist
| 1. | Wondering Star (Love in Outer Space) | 5:53 |
| 2. | Travel Light (for Anthony Bourdain) | 5:02 |
| 3. | Engulfed in Flames | 11:35 |
| 4. | Death Rattle | 9:50 |
| 5. | Shadow of your Dreams | 4:19 |
| 6. | Relax...none of this matters anyway. | 8:24 |
Credits
All songs recorded, mixed and produced by TMFA from 2018 - 2020, except for tracks 1,2,6 recorded by AAA.
Guitar, bass, piano, vocals and percussion on all tracks TMFA, slide guitar on Wondering Star by AAA.
All tracks by the Man from Atlantis © 2020. Ramble Records 001, 2020.
Mastered by Michael Potter at Garden Portal, Athens, Georgia.
Design by George Stajsic.
License
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the Man from Atlantis is a Melbourne musician using folk, country, blues, punk American primitive guitar, Indian classical, psych and free jazz as a reference to traverse the sonic space ways.
Previously making unpopular music as a member of '90s art prog noised-based project: Ray of Creation and krautrock duo Imperial Leatherman