The Myrrors aus Arizona live @ Das Bach am 5.2.2018 [full set]

«The Myrrors» aus Arizona am 5.2.2018 im DasBach. I’m not sure what, precisely, The Myrrors are getting at with their new album Hasta La Victoria, but I’m certain that there is very little music being made in the United States right now that sounds anything like it. It is music that would seem to be outwardly political—we’re talking about a quartet of musicians creating ecstatic drones out of Afghani instruments mere miles from the Mexican border in the Arizona desert, after all—but that doesn’t concern itself with questions of policy, or even of morality. Those details might suggest a certain kind of tired hippie escapism, or a softly new-age sense of inner questing, and, sure, both of those spirits settle over Hasta La Victoria on occasion. But like Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur’s excellent Junun, this is music that uses rhythm and repetition—and strategic departures from both—as ways of generating and shaping power; it is a suggestion of community."