Ahymsa – Demo 2009

Here we have four new tracks from the Londoners Ahymsa who play progressive acid rock with strong references to the early 70’s. The music in these four tracks at first seems quite laid-back with very strong vocal arrangements, but the heavy elements are also present. The music in itself is flowting away pleasantly with cool shifts and breaks. The band really handles the difficult art of making progressive rock arrangements without getting lost in pure showoff and the band always keep the hard hitting elements in the back of their hand as like in track two “Numbers” which ends with some very cool fuzzorma. Track 3 “Green Orange Buddha Juice” starts out real mellow with acoustic guitar and nice cord shifts before a very clear electric guitar leads into the song itself. In the last track “The Singularity” there’s really something heavy going on and the song has a cool keyboard in the middle and towards the end of the song. Because of the many layers in the music, this band is to be listened to carefully and with much concentration. The handwritten liner notes state that this demo is recorded in bedrooms! Wow, quite cool bedrooms I guess – please let me sleep over some time … If you dig: Siena Root, Carpet Knights, Danava http://www.myspace.com/ahymsa meefo LowCut Magazine