Leírás
Alternative/Progressive Rock, Avantgarde Folk Rock, Psychedelic Prog Rock,
Limited edition DIGI pack CD kiadvány, 2026-os album.
October By Name is the latest solo album from Kavus Torabi, marking a luminous new phase for one of Britain’s most distinctive psychedelic voices. Written in the wake of significant personal change and shaped by his work with Gong, Cardiacs and The Utopia Strong, the album blends adventurous psychedelia, melodic songwriting and mystical reflection into a sound that is both emotionally direct and unmistakably his own. Completing an autobiographical trilogy of solo records, Torabi once again performs, records, mixes and illustrates every aspect himself, creating a deeply personal work. The result is an intimate, expansive album that feels celestial, transformative and uniquely Kavus Torabi.
With its name inspired by a dream, ‘October By Name’ marks out a new chapter in the career of Kavus Torabi. – a psychedelic polymath increasing stretching out his creativity via co-ordinates entirely of his own. This has been a decade so far in which his prolific artistry has only been matched by an equally turbulent period in his personal life. Yet the alchemical charge that has resulted matches the mystical origins of the album’s title with six songs that inhabit a similarly surreal and transcendental landscape. As Kavus reckons „If you can’t trust your subconscious, who can you trust?”
Not merely a more optimistic and beatific sounding record than its cathartic and intense predecessor ‘The Banishing’, ‘October By Name’ sees Kavus evolving as an artist in ways he maybe didn’t even predict himself. Both inspired by his recent work with Gong and Cardiacs, and inhabiting a serious change of modus operandi via his work to date with the improvisational project „The Utopia Strong”, he created a new method of writing where all styles converge and overlap „As with the first time I heard Cardiacs at the age of sixteen and thinking ‘Oh! You can make stuff like this’, so I had a similar epiphany three decades on”.
“Increasingly, I’m becoming more solipsistic, going further into my own world creatively. As long as the bubble I’m in keeps giving me songs, I’m OK with that. Honestly, every one I get over the line, that still excites, thrills and engages me is a blessing”. „I want to make something that feels celestial, otherworldly, mystical and transformative” – elucidates Kavus, to which one would tend to say: mission accomplished. .„I think this is probably what I’ve always been trying to do but there was perhaps some insecurity or need to prove something that made me want to be deliberately obtuse or complex when I was younger. I do think music has a – for want of a better word – supernatural quality”.
Other release formats: Transparent Blue Vinyl (BR40LP1), Transparent Yellow Vinyl (BR40LP2).
YouTube video:
KAVUS TORABI: https://www.youtube.com/@Kavus-Torabi/videos
Felvételek:
1. Signals Shine
2. In Her Radiance
3. Water Into Wine 04:11
4. From The Storm
5. My Shameful Namesake
6. Ancestor’s Song
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