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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Western Mantra is undoubtedly one of the finest pieces the Cabs produced. Admittedly, the Sheffield trio re-wired my brain in 1979 through over-dosing on "Live At The YMCA", definitely Category A vinyl drugs. So for me, Western Mantra has the same insidious, building, subtly mutating, attritional pleasures as many of their finer early tracks.
From "A Thousand Ways" (Red Mecca) to "Premonition" (Voice Of America), the Cabs set a blue print for the use of tight, tensioned, repetition that builds and releases and comes back for more. Play Western Mantra loud, play it often. This is 5 star early Cabs.
Eastern Mantra is dull.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Surely CV make it very clear from the start what this is all about? It's called "Three Mantras" but there's only two tracks. Is the third mantra made up of the continuous complaints about how "unlistenable" this is? Now, I don't claim to have the inside track on CV's intentions here, but I think that this is genuinely meant to annoy. It's one of the purest expressions of their early dada-ish affiliations. It's an audio-irritant which gets right up people's noses and (try it!) clears a room in seconds (does a great job of ending a party that is going on too long). As such, then, it is a quite deliberately anti-consumerist strategy. So buy it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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..It's not the best release CV have ever put out, but there are some good points to it nonetheless. Sure there are only two tracks on here. Both of them are quite long however, but granted that can also be a problem, aswell as a blessing.
The first track shows what good Cabaret Voltaire were able to do with a long track. It's a wonderful rhythmic groove track with crashing percussion and deep basslines. Stephen Mallinder can be heard in full force, screaming out his, by now, familiar oblique paranoid lyrics over Richard H Kirk's visceral guitar lines.
However, track two shows how badly CV did with producing a long track. It's not terrible, just a bit on the dull side. Rabbling voices from an Arabian market is all that can be heard for the majority of the track, and I'm sure it was quite experimental in its day, but now it sounds tired and a bit dated.
One for the real CV fans.
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Three Mantras? Or just two?
This is something I bought on it's original release. I had a healthy obsession with this band in the early days and this particular release did not disappoint. Read more
Published 17 months ago by neumatic
The reviewer from Orkney has this one summed up very well
Western Mantra - a great driving song, Cabaret at their best.
Eastern Mantra - a difficult song. Read more
Eastern Mantra - a difficult song. Read more
Published on 21 July 2007 by E. o'connor
junk.
for years cab vol have been ridiculed by various music publications for producing absolute rubbish. its genuine industrial all the way through but cab vol's pedigree seems to... Read more
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