Causa Sui: Summer Sessions vol 1
August 2008
Fan-video of a segment of El Paraiso from Roadburn
Causa Sui: Free Ride
Last year Causa Suis self titled debut album was released to amazement of psychedelic rock fans around the world. The album gathered praise in magazines and webzines everybody from David Fricke (senior editor, Rolling Stone) and Ryan Schreiber (founder of Pitchfork Media) to small personal web-blogs has had nothing but good words to spill on Causa Sui. That, coupled with a few tours in Europe, they quickly earned a reputation of being a band to watch. Their unique mix of furious heavy psych and more experimental stylings such as kraut rock and shoegazing has created a stir in several music communities this is a band that appeals to indie-kids and avant-rock hipsters as well as to stoner rockers.
Their new album, Free Ride, takes their sound even further. The label acid rock seems far from exhaustive to describe what the four Danes are doing on this album, where stellar rock playing meets atmospheric flutes and electronics, where heavy riffs are lined up side by side with wondrous melodic passages. Causa Sui is proof that hard rock can still move frontiers. On Free Ride they play with a soulful live-feel, something rock music is missing these days, and a passion and joy thats impossible to deny. This album is at the same time raw, authentic and with a sense of nuances and detail that doesnt normally exist in hard rock. It has both immediacy and depth, power and thoughtfulness, chaos and grace.
Their sound has been described as Blue Cheer meets Can and as post psych but there is really no appropriate way of describing their sound it has to be experienced first hand.
Causa Sui: Free Ride will be released within the end of 2006
Praise for Causa Sui: S/T (released december 2005 on Nasoni Records):
Mojo Magazine (January 2006): - predictions about 2006 about how the sound of 1971-psych will dominate the new year: On nights out they'll (the kids) flock to the live prog-psych freak-pop sound of Dungen and Danish krautnoise foursome Causa Sui. Comets On Fire wille become uncommonly popular after covering the Edgar Broughton Band's Out Demons Out, which will be adopted as an anti-Iraq youth chant by everyone not getting stoned in their bedrooms to the new Zutons album, the ongoing folkrock movement and Radioheads latest (which will sound a bit like Meddle).
Uncut Magazine (February 2006): Storm-tossed Danish psych-rock. If youve been pining for more of the untrammelled Blue Cleer-meets Can through-a-traffic-cone-sounds of Comets on Fire, Danish psych outfit Causa Sui (the names cribbed from philosopher Spinoza) should fill the gap. Pulsating opener Ventura Freeway sets the tone: a freeform psych-metal frenzy of screaming guitars, distorted vocals and Iggy-dumb lyrics. There are variations on the theme with Where The Streams Collide (folk-funk shuffle melding into Deep Purple workout) and El Paraiso (Ravi Shankar in a blender). On these terms, epic Sabbath-goes-surfing closer Great Blue Swells is the only way to end.
Stonerrock.com What you get with Casua Sui is four Danes with a love of acid-based garage rock that draws as much from The Stooges as they do from Hendrix or Blue Cheer. [] Whats cool about Causa Sui is that they manage to be heavy without a bombastic approach. Their self titled debut is filled with well-crafted songs, and if youre looking for some stellar psychedelic playing with a rough edge, then these are the guys to go to.
Roadburn.com Denmark's Causa Sui plays a heady, fuzzed-out mix of 60's acid rock, kraut rock and proto-hardrock -think Can meets Blue Cheer or Hendrix mainlining Randy Holden. Forget about the glut of retro-rock bands wandering around in their paisley shirts and bellbottom jeans, Causa Sui are just four guys with a pile of killer riffs and a protean ability to jam. And man, can these guys fuckin' play -far friggin' out!!!
