The Spanish Donkey - RAOUL (2015)

The sound of Joe Morris' electric guitar, with distortion pedal set on stun and wah-wah pedal fully engaged, colliding with Jamie Saft's droning, microtonal organ and Mike Pride's thunderous free drumming approach to the kit creates a mind-numbing maelstrom on The Spanish Donkey's RAOUL, the improvising trio's debut on RareNoise records. A follow-up to XYX, their 2011 album, which was released on Northern Spy Records. The album consists of three throbbing tracks – the brutal 32- minute title track 'Raoul, the 22-minute "Behavioral Sink" and 16-minute Echoplex piano feature "Dragon Fly Jones" – that showcase The Spanish Donkey's remarkable group-think as well as the individual player's uncanny intuition on their respective instruments. More intensely cathartic, startlingly original and compelling than anything you've ever heard – imagine a mash-up of John Coltrane's Interstellar Space and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music – RAOUL stands as a hellacious manifesto by one of the most formidable improvising trios around today.

Tracklist:

01. RAOUL
02. Behavioral Sink
03. Dragon Fly Jones

Personnel:

Joe Morris: chitarre elettriche;
Jamie Saft: Hammond, organo Korg, MiniMoog, piano;
Mike Pride: piano.