I think Dirk Lance now writes music for video games (cool).ĭirk Lance's band Willie's Nerve Clinic is actually great, and has a a more raw feel than when he was in Incubus, just sounds like a 'good fun' band. Their subsequent albums have been hit and miss, I think Light Grenades is there weakest, and it's hard to disguise the fact that their drop in quality coincided with B.K. joining or whether Incubus apart from Dirk changed which led him to leave. The question remains in my mind though whether the change in Incubus was triggered by Dirk Leaving and B.K. But back to Ben Kenney, he was using a plec (pick) and generally I wasn't impressed, not with Ben Kenney or the album as a whole.Īs time has gone on I've realised that there was a sharp turn in Incubus' sound at that point which was made by the entire band, Brandon's vocals were a little more shout, Einziger's writing was purposefully less 'precise' and 'clean' sounding and DJ Kilmore had started using more keyboards. When i heard Megalomania it was clear that it wasn't just the bass that had changed it's feel, Mike Einziger had clearly taken a turn for the indie, swapping his PRS out for a Fender's (Jaguar etc.). This concerned me as I like the idea of bassist being bassists and not guitarists turned bassists as i do think that there's a totally different mindset required. When Dirk left, i was worried to hear that Ben Kenney had joined as the only thing i'd hear about him was that he was a guitarist. These are still two of my favourite albums of all time, for all of the instrumentation. When we get to Make Yourself and Wish You Were Here he came into his own and matured in his playing and learnt to write in a more laid-back manner with deep smooth grooves with an element of the avant garde.
and his funky lines on Fungus Amongus are fantastic and you can tell his enthusiasm for Bass as an instrument, but you can see some of the naivety in his writing as he is all about playing and not giving much space. His slaps and snaps and dirty drum and bass grooves on S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
I've been an avid and fanatical listener and follower of Incubus since my early teens, every member of the band being ludicrously talented at their specific field, created genuinely unique, recognisable music.īecause of this Dirk Lance has always been one of the bassist's i've been exposed to the most. "You have basically just focused in on the biggest musical upset of my life, and that's not really an exagerration. The second part of the Inkubus Sukkubus Tales of Witchcraft and Wonder series.I posted this on here before the latest releases: Still available but stocks are running low!
The album features 12 completely new songs, and both the original version, and a new reworking of the Classic Inkubus Sukkubus track, "Sabrina". "Sabrina - Goddess of the Severn" is an acoustic journey into the folklore and history of the Cotswolds and beyond. The third and final chapter of the Inkubus Sukkubus "Horror Folk" musical triptych "Tales of Witchcraft & Wonder".
Original concept artwork for the WYTCHES album 1993 The cover artwork is based on the original unused design concept which was impossible to produce in 1993 This is a special edition, 21 year aniversary of INKUBUS SUKKUBUS digital re-master. USA and Rest of the World Price$19.63 (plus $9.82 P&P) approx To order Tales of Witchraft & Wonder please select your postal region and click button below In this book, founder members and songwritersĬandia and Tony McKormack further research the stories, to explore the meaning behind the tales – the theories, the magic, These are some of the folkloric tales told in the songs of Inkubus Sukkubus in their trilogy of albums, Pinned to the ground as though believed a witch. ‘One of our land’s most individual and interesting Gothic folk-rock bands now proves that it can deal asĮffectively with prose as music, in a mixture of stories old and new, of horror, beauty and romance, thatĬapture perfectly the magical and mystical heritage of one of England’s most remarkable counties.’Ī woman falls under the spell of a poisonous plant.Ī young man discovers a mermaid, washed up on the shore.Ī mysterious body is discovered hidden in the trunk of a tree.Īn orphaned ape is raised as a child in a Cotswold village.Īn old man’s body is discovered on a hill, mysteriously
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