2020 has been the most insane fucking year. So much shit has happened that we never thought we would see. From a full-blown pandemic to a fly on our vice president’s head becoming a viral sensation (no pun intended), it’s enough to make me want to throw my hands up and cash in my chips. Luckily, as always, music comes through and offers me some sweet relief, and this time it came in the form of Magick Brother, Mystic Sister.
Magick Brother, Mystic Sister came out of nowhere with their debut album in 2020 and it is an album that has captured my attention and intrigued me. Hailing from Spain, Magick Brother, Mystic Sister is a mysterious band. There is very little information about them on the web and even their social media presence is sparse and, again, mysterious.
As with previous bands I have fallen in love with, I discovered them on the “fans also like” link on Spotify. The opening song “Utopia” is an instrumental that very well could be from a Blacksploitation film or modernly a movie like Ocean’s Eleven. The song segues into “Waterforms.” I was already pulled in immediately but “Waterforms” secured its grasp on me with the lush female vocals of Eva Muntada and the hypnotic flute playing of Maya Fernandez.
I feared that this album very well could be front-loaded with the best material at the start of the album but I couldn’t be any farther from the truth. Each song was a cosmic voyage all it’s own and because of the perfect sequencing of the songs, it plays out like a musically conceptual journey of the body and the senses.
It’s hard not to be over cosmic while describing this album but it’s damn near impossible. Magick Brother, Mystic Sister seems to have pulled from various styles of music such as progressive, krautrock, San Francisco psych rock, and ‘60s/’70s music. The songs all seem to have an amazingly free flow to them as if they are just pulling the songs out of the air but at the same time, it isn’t sloppy or choppy like full-on improvisation.
Magick Brother, Mystic Sister is a band to look out for and to welcome into your collection now. The music of Magick Brother, Mystic Sister is the sound of the past moving us into the future. I guess I could say they are attempting to take us back to the future so to speak. In these chaotic, surreal, and beyond depressing times filling us all with anxiety, Magick Brother, Mystic Sister is the soundtrack we all need to disconnect from it all and for just 46 minutes venture off to another plane where nothing resides but thought, peace, and tranquility. Trust me, it’s a great place and I plan on visiting it many more times.
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Magick Brother, Mystic Sister are:
Eva Muntada: piano, synthesizers, organ, mellotron & vocals
Xavi Sandoval: bass & guitars
Marc Tena: drums & vocals
Maya Fernández: flute
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