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Mysteries Of The Revolution: Mysteries Of The Revolution

Read "Mysteries Of The Revolution" reviewed by Chris May

Composer/multi-instrumentalist BB Davis' London-based Red Orchidstra has been described as sounding like “Oscar Wilde on acid." Mysteries Of The Revolution, the keyboards-led power trio made up of the rhythmic core of the band, might similarly be described as “Arthur Rimbaud on a headful of the finest, hand pressed, Nepalese ganja." Not literally, for words play only cameo roles here, but in the passionate intensity of the music and its determination, in Rimbaud's words, to “disorder the senses."

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