GALLOPING CORONERS Dancing With The Sun CD (Neurot) 14.98Dancing With The Sun is an ecstatic live album capturing the legendary Hungarian band Vagtazo Halottkemek (which loosely translates into Galloping Coroners) in an explosion of mystical, psychedelic hardcore power, with a twelve song set captured during a concert appearance in Budapest in 1999 with Neurosis, Voivod, and Today Is The Day. A legendary group of dissident musicians in their own country, Vagtazo Halottkemek were banned for years in the '80s from playing music in Hungary, and have become fairly reknowned for their mystical social messages and "shamanic" style of psych-punk power. Musically, the band engages in awesome, heavy tribal/hardcore/space rock freakouts, sort of like early Amon D��l 2 fused with Hawkwind and noisy, epic hardcore, or swirling around in pools of beautiful fuzz with improvised melodies singing the edges of the band's ambient drones. Haunting Hungarian folk melodies and kraut rock rhythms winding their way through tribal drumming, improvised space-rock explorations, and spacey prog-rock that builds and builds, culminating in huge maelstroms of distorted guitars. Their lead vocalist Grandpierre Atilla shrieks, howls and narrates tales in both Magyar and English, and his primal chants radiate a hypnotic vibe across the music. All kinds of instruments are used to create their otherworldly jams: droning didgeridoo, kettledrums, flutes, violin, xylophone all swirl together into a whirling feverdream that drifts through the Carpathian mountains and etches primitive petroglyphs around the sun, as depicted on the album's eyecatching psychedelic cover art. This is one of the lesser known releases on Neurot (it's actually the first non-Neurosis release to appear on the label), but it's highly recommended if yer in the mood for some seriously expansive, and occasionally really fucking heavy psychedelia.