Who we are:Well who are you and what are you doing here? We are the mirror that reflects the thousand faces of you. We are the emotions you live through. We are the silver behind the glass that sends you the picture that you carry through your day to day life. We live behind that mirror. We reflect you. if you get us then you probably get yourself. If you hate us then you probably hate other things too. If you love us then we are surely not the only thing you love. If you tolerate us then you probably have at least an open mind. We are the edge of the mirror too, the sharp edged cut your finger blade. We are also the mirror surface on which to lie your line and to disintegrate your reflection. We are the proof that perspective is random and that as one seer once said. "IT IS AS OTHER PEOPLE SEE YOU THAT YOU REALLY ARE". How you see us is how we are and how we see you. As simple as that, that is who we are! Band History:
Born with a tremendous burst of latent energy,
some years before now. Back when times demanded
a straight line rock and a straight line roll.
But patient were we, taking our gaoler with us as far as
he would go. Then, and then, we just dropped out,
totally freaked. We became not just another blast of
noise, we began to give up the need for control, we
began to shuffle our feet. Then slowly we began to
learn how to fly, and learn how to soar with the
minimum of effort. We didn't flap our wings
desperately any longer we just fell through the
golden clouds and have been waiting to land ever
since. Getting more electric with the months and it
just makes life more interesting. We have been
patient, very, very patient, but, we are soon about to
shine brighter than ever you could dream of.
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Aus Österreich, England und den USA kommen die Mitglieder dieser Wiener Psychedelic-Band, die nach einigen CDs im Eigenverlag nun erstmals bei Konkord veröffentlicht. Hört sich tatsächlich sehr international an, was das Quintett in liebevoller Arbeit geschaffen hat: „Shhh!“ nimmt einen durch Keyboardnebel und lärmende Gitarrenwände hinauf in acht Meilen Höhe; und wenn schon der erste Song in einem ähnlichen Freakout wie Roxy Musics „In Every Dream Home a Heartache“ gipfelt, befindet man sich im richtigen Flieger. The Good Library haben aber auch Melodien. Ein tolles, vielschichtiges Album.
Das gute Buch empfiehlt das bildungsbürgerliche Feuilleton, The Good Library empfehlen sich mit ihrer bemerkenswerten CD quasi selbst. Beachtlich ist „Shhh!“ deshalb, weil es in treibendem Psychedelic-Gitarrenrock schwelgt, fern jeder Stoner-Fadesse. Psychedelic hat in der alkoholseligen Alpenrepublik ja keine Tradition. Diese läutet das Quintett nun mit schrammenden Riffs und kraftvollen Keyboards ein. Es frönt zwar auch wabernden Klangorgien, öfter aber kompakten Songs und einem eingängigen Eklektizismus. So fallen sich klassischer Westcoast-Sound, Anleihen bei Roxy Music und den Stranglers, dynamischer Rock und Brit-Pop in die Arme. Bunt wie eine Wundertüte!
The Good Library tragen ihren Namen zurecht. Die Wiener Archivare verfügen über eine beträchtliche Sammlung essentieller Standardwerke, die von subversiver Sachliteratur bis zu Belletristik, von Martin L. Gores’ (Depeche Mode) “Love Boat: 80er - gut verkauft!” bis zu “Super Power Supplier: Von der Garage in die Wüste in acht Minuten” von Alison Mosshart (The Kills) & Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) reicht. Das Schönste daran: “Die gute Bücherei” besteht aus Hörbüchern.
Und weil das “Shhh!” für jeden gilt, der eine Bibliothek betritt, ist im Gegenzug auch für alle etwas dabei: während sich der alternative Popliteraturanhänger mit zugänglichen Schrägheiten wie “Cool Hand Fluke” (Flaming Lips!) oder “Nothing Is Nothing” in die Leseecke legen wird, dürfte vor allem vieräugiges Publikum aus dem naturwissenschaftlichen Bereich mit den elektronischen Schaltplänen zu “Dirty Harry” (John Foxx trifft Tricky und verprügelt Alec Empire) und “Round The Bend” (Aphex Twin covert Ministry) angeberisch die Gänge blockieren. Die bodenständigere, naturbelassene Wollpulloverfraktion dürfte die Ausleihedauer hingegen gehörig mit den Artikeln “Caravan” (Hafenschunkel-Reggae), “Punk Lady” (wie der Name sagt) und “Hory Glory” (aus dem selben Zwielicht wie die Twilight Singers) überziehen.
Das Problem: alles auf einmal geht nicht. Also muss man sich wohl eine Jahreskarte zulegen und sich mit der Tatsache abfinden, dass The Good Library mit “Shhh!” ein ewig unerfassbarer Raum der Heterogenität bleibt.
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...wie benommen bewegt man sich des Nachts durch die lichtdurchfluteten Strassen, Autotunnel, über Brücken und vorbei an großen Häusern...alles schwirrt vor den Augen und man kann Details nur verschwommen, wie unwirklich wahrnehmen! Eine Slow-Motion-Reise wie ein bizarrer LSD-Trip, der mit sich ins Unterbewußtsein einschleichenden Rhythmen und Gitarren-Psychedelic-Effekten, männl. Stimme, unaufdringlichen Melodiebögen und undefinierbaren Klangnetz wie ein Geflecht vor den Augen wahrgenommen wird, bevor zum Finale in »Return Of The Cat« eine kreischende und dennoch angenehm warme Noise-Gitarrenwand sich aufbaut!
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More power, more energy and more noise. What is brought from The Good Library's last two albums is now exchanged with a noticeable transformation in both sound and quality. You get a much better feel from the men behind the wheel. It feels more organized, with more flow, and not as abstract. "To The Sea" really reveals Pink Floyd as the source of inspiration. According to me, this is an essential change in order to make the band perfect. Now TGL feels 100% complete... I cannot say more.
The To the Sea EP, starts with a In the Sun and a totally different production quality from the other material and is a psychedelic rock song with very cool warped out synth line and fuzzed out guitar. I thought they were really going here but then it is over at 2:18. The title track reminds me of the Spacious Mind's laid back spaced songs based on that addictive psychedelic organ. This is a very cool song but again only like 3 minutes long. "AC/DC" is next and a psychedelic space rocker for sure! The vocal reminds me a bit of Dr. Brown. Again, this song is just over 2 minutes long. "Nothing To Be Afraid Of" ends the EP. I really liked this strange psychedelic EP a lot and it is quite different from the full length Dalai- Lemma, but why such short songs? I wonder if the band are scared to make songs longer than a few minutes for fear of what they might find??
The Good Library came back with the EP To the Sea, four heavy psychedelic rock songs, all solid and assured. The lead-off track "In the Sun" is the highlight and deserves to find its way on Central-European psychedelic rock compilations. "AC/DC" is interesting, but it is badly recorded the drums are too far and thin, the handclaps annoy. "Nothing To Be Afraid Of" ends the set with something that sounds like a psychedelized version of Echo and the Bunnymen. This EP could indicate a change in direction. In any case, start with Good, the group's first full-length album. -François Couture
First things first, "the good library" have improved their sound beyond recognition and now fit comfortably into the psych genre. This is just totally different to their "Dalai Lemma" album. Gone are the bluesy riffs and therelative safety that goes with it as is very apparent when "in the sun" comes right on in and smacks you in the face like "The Smiths" on speed with its fast guitars, cleverly positioned feedback and vocals that peak and trough without any of it getting discordant. "To the sea" mellows out nicely with haunting reverb and dramatic synths and percussion in a "King crimson" / "Floyd"esque style, atmospheric and dream inducing stuff if only it was longer. AC/DC comes in on the same hurricane as "In the sun" with its hard'n'fast guitars, fuzz, reverb and echoed vocals. "Nothing to be afraid of" sounds like they used the guitar from "U2". Don't let that comparison put you off, it really works well here with the melatron sound as well. The only trouble with this EP is that you have to play it loud to really get the benefit... did I say trouble, hell, it ain't no trouble, just turn that knob in a clockwise direction and enjoy the ride. I can't give it 5 cubes 'cause 5 cubes are for classics (in my book) and as good as this is it hasn't reached classic status.
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The Dalai Lemma is 10 tracks of beautifully woven music in between spaces of pure psychedelic bliss and the haunting words spoken Vine Sweetland on Track 4, 'Hyperventilation'. A wonderful piece of 60's influenced music. "The Revolution is over..." say Vine Sweetland. A mighty sad take on our apathetic inclined modern day society. Prior to that we are treated with some very minimalist psychedelica throughout - 'Two Truck Idea' is only just under two minutes. For a psychedelic based album, the tracks are surprisingly short. But sweet enough to get a real taste of what these guys are about. Seems to me that's bringing back the times when music was far more about the message it could carry - the induced altered states of reality promised in the music (drug-induced or otherwise). In the traditional sense of psychedelica,this is more influenced by blues and folk (as well as fuzzed out guitars) than the classical Indian sitar music (of which Zemira Productions is no stranger). The Good Library have created a unique blend of Western instruments and acoustic and electric drones. Definitely leaning more towards space-rock and distortion than anything traditional.
"The Good Library "Dalai-Lemma" (Damned Good/Zemira) An Austrian group with layered atmospheres and spoken vocals on a couple tracks, some are just wandering surrealistic instrumentals. Trees bent in a magnetic wind from outrageous auras manifested at sundown by ritualistic invocation of krautrock stoned improvisatory meanderings. Guitar, bass, drums, synth, and keyboards paint with fuzzy fingers, slow extraterrestrial space extending outward, and vast topographical maps. The spoken tracks feel somewhere between David Thomas' "Mirror Man", and John Sinclair's stoney recollections, while instrumentally they recall; Cul de Sac, The Doors, and several German bands. -George Parsons
...this band excatly plays some kind of super-psychedelic really lysergic free-form music, with spoken words on top. It really is something crazy, difficult and really enjoyable at the same time, and also relaxing if you are in the right mood. Buy it if you want some acid on CD. :-) Overall, well done guys! I wonder if you manage to find a club to play your crazy stuff... it must be difficult I bet, when you play this weird things!
...What you get is fuzz, reverb, floaty happenings, and heavy bluesy riffs that at times bite your ears off . It has a certain softness that is suddenly obliterated by big fuzz and brain churning guitar. Way back when in 1998, they graced the U.K with their presence at the "Laurel Tree" in London where "they rocked London with psychedelic energy". Now if this album is anything to go by they probably did. It is a shame we at Pooterland didn't know about them then. If they do ever make a return I for one would part with my hard earned £s (or should that be Euros, no politics please) to go and hear them curdle my cranium. ...overall it's a very good album with some very fine guitar work and spacey synths, and comes recommended.
The four Austrian guys of The Good Library play melodious and poetic psyche-music. Overly distanced guitars that give out a noisy sound is one of the most important ingredients in this album. But the key is the experimental atmosphere - to get as much expression as possible out of the speakers. Dalai Lemma is calm and nice, perfect to put on when you come home a little intoxicated from various kinds of intoxicants and to fall asleep to.
... lazy are the musicians, lazy is the music, lazy becomes the listener...
...Some of the tracks are very short instrumentals while others have spoken words melted into pretty strange spaced out music of a psychedelic nature, certainly strange and unconventional. Sometimes minimalist, with just bass and guitar and very low keyboards...
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Can Austrians freak out? Of course they can; psychedelic rock is not exclusive to the U.S. West Coast, after all. And the Good Library's CD Good is, well, good! When the group doesn't stray from the established rules of the genre (1990s version, i.e., with better production and occasionally a more crunchy sound), the result is top-quality mind-melting music. After all, what it takes is a good rhythmic drive, spacy synthesizers, good melodies, ethereal voices, and that special spirit to make sure things congeal in just the right way. This short album (barely over 30 minutes) is focused on songs rather than jams. Male and female vocals answer each other. The rhythm section (Danny Aue and Craig Dillon) can be rock-solid, twirling, pulsing, and driving like vintage Gong. The use of synths and special effects recalls Ebeling Hughes (unsung heroes of '90s U.S. psych). Highlighting tracks would not do justice to the album. Each track segues into the next (some being variations or extensions of previous themes) and the group drops the groove only once, on the closing "Maschinenatem." The intention to try something different, more experimental, is laudable by itself, but it simply doesn't work out, never reaching past the noodling stage. "Warm & Mystical," "Tokio Airport" (sic), and "The Man With the 14 Coloured Nipple" (this title is gold) are genuine indie psychedelia anthems. This title and the group's next opus, Dalai-Lemma, have been picked up for distribution by the U.S. label Zemira. - François Couture
The good Library aus Österreich ist ganz klar eine Band, die nicht Musik macht, um möglichst viel Kohle reinzuscheffeln, sondern um Gefühle und Emotionen zu vermitteln.Ihre aktuelle CD ist somit auch keine 08/15 CD, die man mal eben so nebenbei hört, sondern man sollte sich Zeit nehmen und sich mit diesem "Kunstwerk" auseinandersetzen, am besten bei gedämpftem Licht. Meiner Meinung nach sollte man the good Library auch nicht als Musiker sondern als Künstler betrachten.Alle, die emotionsgeladene, spährische Musik lieben, sollten bei Good mal reinhören, alle Hitparaden-Fans, Finger weg !
Die erste CD der Niederösterreicher bietet Trance-Psychdelic-Gitarrenrock mit elektronischem Touch. Die ersten Nummern "L.A. L.A. Buy" und "Warm & mystical", die unmerklich ineinander über gehen, erinnern etwas an die Doors. Bass und Schlagzeug treiben die Lieder immer wieder voran und bilden einen Gegensatz zur sphärischen Stimme der (Gast-) Sängerin. "Habit", das ebenfalls mit den beiden folgenden Tracks eine Einheit bildet, ist eine recht straighte Rocknummer. "Tokio Airport" ist etwas verspielter, die letzten drei Nummern vermischen wieder reine Rock-Elemente und elektronische Sounds. Ein gelungenes, abwechslungsreiches Debut-Album.
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