Sex Magick Wizards

Sex Magick Wizards – Your Bliss My Joy (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:25 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rune Grammofon

With “Your Bliss My Joy” – Sex Magick Wizard’s debut for Rune Grammofon – this young quartet take a big step forward from their promising first album, “Eroto Comatose Lucidity”, released in 2019 on the small Finito Bakalao label. Since then Ingvald André Vassbø (Kanaan) has taken over the drum duties from Axel Skalstad (Krokofant) and forms an explosive and fine-drawn rhythm section with bass player Henrik Sandstad Dalen. Saxophonist Sigrid Aftret has been making waves on Oslo’s fertile and evergrowing improv scene, and is known for her strong musical presence and open approach to improvisation. Guitarist and main composer Viktor Bomstad was raised on a diet of Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin before being introduced to the music of Django Reinhardt, a turning point in his life. After some years of cultivating a more traditional jazz direction he became engulfed in the possibilities of free jazz, before finding a healthy balance between jazz and rock. “Your Bliss My Joy” is a varied and dynamic album that explore a similar landscape where one might find the likes of Bushman´s Revenge and Fire!

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Sex Magick Wizards – Eroto Comatose Lucidity (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:01 minutes | 471 MB | Genre: Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finito Bacalao Records

Eroto Comatose Lucidity is the no-mercy debut album from Sex Magick Wizards. Through this album these magicians seek to seduce you into joining their occult universe where neck-break riffs, hard hitting melodies and sexually loaded energies flow freely. The songs are all heavily influenced by the diverse aesthetics of the 70s, all performed with an innovative touch from this band of new-generation musicians. Driven forth by the thundering drums of Axel Skalstad and the creative play of up-right bass player Henrik Sandstad Dalen, the roaring saxophone of Sigrid Aftret and the virtuosity of guitarist Viktor Bomstad really get to shine. However, the interplay between these four musicians is always the main highlight.

With enigmatic musical and spiritual leader Viktor Bomstad at the spearhead, every performance made by this group will separate itself from the next one. Their first single Nuit Speaks has already been well received and the likes of Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis and John Coltrane have all been named within the same breath as Sex Magick Wizards.

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