Offering much longer tracks than their debut,
Omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys goes even deeper into the sonic realms of Krautrock, ethnic detritus, and sound collage. The CD is an exotic brew, whether venturing into cosmic funk grooves on tracks like "Give Them the Ants" and "To Be Born Drunk and Die Dreaming" or settling into the more relaxed trance-meditation-drift that the Keit are known for. The 14-minute title track, with Arabic flute and percussion washes, shimmers like a desert mirage; "Please Turn Out the Sun," also clocking in at 14 minutes, uses mantra-rock riffs that slowly evolve and devolve. The CD is full of sonic twists, like the jarring sample snippet at the end of "Seen" and the strange spoken word at the beginning of "Please Turn Out the Sun," which only enhance the otherworldliness of the music. It doesn't hurt that
Omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys was engineered by
Steven Wray Lobdell, guitarist for
Faust (and occasionally for Hochenkeit at live gigs).
Omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys delves deeper into the worlds that I Love You hinted at. ~ Rolf Semprebon