Hawkwind name-dropped in review

[gary shindler]

>From a show in Kansas City:
   
  Dark Meat is another thing entirely, a 17-piece thunderstorm of droning psychedelic activity that recalls both the revved-up space rock of Hawkwind, Ash Ra Tempel, and Amon Düül II and the avant-“primitive” free jazz of Peter Brötzmann and Albert Ayler. 
  Such considerations as “arrangement” and “space” are basically irrelevant to the two-drummer, three-guitarist, three-horn, two-violin onslaught of the group, but the music is not without its own breed of subtleties. 
  There are hints of rollicking R&B in the surprisingly agile rhythm section and the unison horn riffs, of Middle Eastern and Indian music in the droning guitars and improvised modal chanting, and of gospel and work songs in the massed melodies (in much the same way that Ayler’s far-out explorations were usually based on simple, folky refrains). 
  As ever, that which academic classicism deems “primitive,” both in rock’n’roll and in ethnic music, turns out to be infinitely nuanced.