The Castellers are another band that followed me on
Twitter, and this is a great time to review them, because they are currently in
a battle of the bands across Manchester to win over £900 worth of recording
sessions, which would be an amazing
opportunity.
So, part of this review is encouraging you to go to http://systemonetravel.wix.com/botb
and vote for them. The voting form has been a little tricky, so I recommend you
hit the dropdown arrow for band selection first, and then fill in your name and
email address. You can certainly listen to the other bands as well - Manchester
produces some great sounds - but I know whom I voted for. voting continues
through July 26th.
They list their genre as British Rock on Facebook, and
that was interesting to me because the first group that I thought of was The
Byrds, who are American of course, but an American band at the time of the
British Invasion, who were both influenced and were influenced by it. Other
things that came to mind were The Animals on "We Gotta Get Out Of This
Place", Van Morrison on "Gloria", and bits of Dick Dale (the
Surf King) and the Beatles as influenced by Ravi Shankar. So, we are looking at
a fairly specific time, though perhaps multiple places.
What you might guess from that last paragraph, other than
questions about my music knowledge and sanity, is prominent guitars, entrancing
rhythms, and feels a bit cosmic at times.
This is essentially getting a feeling from three songs.
We have the haunting "Jackson In The Barrel", a more rocking "To
The Gallows", and a lilting "Five Days Time" falls somewhere in
between for tempo. However, I bet they could produce several more songs with,
say, £900 worth of recording sessions. It really makes you think.
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