Review Summary: Let your soul soar to new heights
Elemental Raga III: Windcutter is the work of Sputnikmusic.com hall of famer LordPots (formerly SIlentPotato). Silentpotato is a man of few words, but under that cold hearted exterior lays the mind of a genius who creates electronic music. Holding a grudge with modern society and what it has done to his beloved Sputnikmusic.com, Silentpotato is on a mission to prove that someone on this site actually has some talent and isn’t a complete douche bag.
The album begins with
Shu of the Primordial Emptiness a track that features a girl, or rodent of some sort, saying ‘oh no i'm gonna die’ for over three minutes. This sadistic version of Alvin and the Chipmunks comes to an abrupt halt and awkwardly springs into a dance rhythm with the track
Zephyrus. This song is reminiscent of some sort of bird flying through the sky while whistling a tune to himself, but also of a bird taking a dump on my car or sneakers. At this point in the album the listener may begin helplessly dazing into the eyes of the owl on the cover art, as it seems to be Divinely reminiscent of Pablo Picasso. The listener is overwhelmed by the image of an owl, and their soul is swooped into the heavens where only owl souls exist. you wonder “why is this owl, also a man?” and thus spawns The Owl God, ‘Hoooo hoooo’ he cries at you. You beg for an answer to your question. A brilliant stream of blinding light appears and, seemingly not hearing you, the owl's eyes became cold and blank as he stares directly behind you. It was at this time that you turn around and see SilentPotato, and when you look back to your front, the Owl God is no more. You turn back to SilentPotato, and ask 'what was the meaning of the owl man? Is it a symbol of everlasting spiritual unity between owls and people?' He scratches his balls and says “nah brah I just drew it one day when I was hung-over lol”. Yet in your heart and soul you know that the Owl God is with us all, and every time you see an owl now he never moves his eyes when he looks at you.
You begin wondering if the album isn't as serious as you initially thought as the third track
Pazuzu Bearer of Storms begins with another strange chant, and then some people screaming, and then a guy going ‘Gaaaaaaar!’. Moving on. The fourth track features some extensive sampling of rain, a brilliant idea that just missed its time to shine by a few eons in the period before water existed on earth and people couldn’t just open their window to hear some rain. The last track sounds like the preliminary stages of creating a rap beat more than any kind of finished product.
Although the album excels with various catchy instrumental solos that take the listeners soul to Owl Heaven, the problem the album has is its cohesiveness and preponderance of awkward voices. The album serves its function as lackadaisical music. I truly see the potential of a classic band if they would just start writing their lyrics in English and not gibberish that only the Owl God on the cover art can interpret. The instruments are very well played but have no sense of timing or sequencing whatsoever, its like they just threw a bunch of musical sheets around a room, picked them up and played them in that order. Yet the albums suceeds in creating a dark mystical atmosphere,
Overall it is worth a listen, but not anything more, yet all in all, with all things considered, its actually a classic piece of musical material in its own way. In short the production is impressively done but the lyrics and timing of the lyrics and sounds need major work. This album should be scrapped and put back together again and it could end up as something truly classic.
