Julie's Haircut - Italy's premiere psychedelic explorers - have created a deep-end approach
to sonic innovation on 'Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin' - their debut release
for Rocket Recordings. Seven albums into their mission the band find themselves at a new
plateau of small-hours elucidation and revelation that may summon the spectres of the way-
ward squall of early Mercury Rev, the shamanic allure of Dead Skeletons, the freedom of
Miles Davis, the repetition of Can or the wild soundscapes of Amon Duul II to some, yet essentially sounds like no-one but themselves. The result is a record built on trance-like repetition that grows to a mantric intensity to summon atmospheres redolent of the psychic and surreal transgressions of its title - a
double-helix tribute to both Frank Zappa and Kenneth Anger. Coruscating guitar overload and jazz-tinged blowout collide amidst
hypnotic soundscapes like the shamanically inclined 'The Fire Sermon' and the eleven-minute motorik magnificence of the curtain
-raiser 'Zukunft'. Yet atmospheric restraint, glacial texture and immersive groove play as large a part in this blinding and beatific
soundworld as droning darkness or overheated amp tubes.