Temple of Bon Matin

The Philadelphia-based noise rock collective Temple of Bon Matin appears like early Hawkwind jamming with Glenn Branca’s guitar orchestra, towards the accompaniment of an exceptionally busy construction site. Their near-atonal freakouts are as complicated and uncompromising as rock and roll music gets, however they have sufficient dynamics and compositional suggestions to make their information more than basic exercises in repetition and annoyance. The very center of Temple of Bon Matin may be the duo of drummer Ed Wilcox and keyboardist John Mulvaney. Wilcox and Mulvaney will be the group’s just constants, with additional people added and subtracted based on whim. The group’s 1st album was documented in 1993, however, not released until 1995; Thunder, Responses and Confusion is just about the group’s most overtly rock-oriented function, with a number of the tracks actually having recognizable melodies. Although Enduro premiered significantly less than a yr later, the almost three years between your recording sessions, put into this album’s extended roster of music artists, implies that there’s a massive musical progression between your two, with a solid element of free of charge jazz built-into the hard rock and roll textures. 1997’s Bullet Into Mesmer’s Mind is an a lot more out-there fusion from the MC5, Amon Duul I, and the first Crimson Krayola; its seven untitled monitors were documented as live improvisations with a far more experimental Philadelphia ensemble, the Tibetan Bowlers. Apart from a track for the 1997 Hawkwind tribute Assassins of Silence along with a cooperation with fellow Light bulb Records designer Mr. Speed Hopkins, Temple of Bon Matin had been silent for quite some time after Bullet Into Mesmer’s Mind as Wilcox and Mulvaney done other tasks. The duo reconvened in 2001 and documented a whole new 4th recording, Cabin in the Sky. A live display from this period was imprinted up as a restricted release CD-R and offered through the Light bulb Records website.