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My Sleeping Karma - Soma  Country of Origin: Germany 

Format: CD 
Record Label: Napalm Records 
Catalogue #: 17351 
Year of Release: 2012 
Time: 56:37 
Info: My Sleeping Karma 
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Tracklist: Pachyclada (9:01), Interlude (1:39), Ephedra (7:25), Interlude (2:36), Eleusine coracana (7:50), Interlude (2:09), Saumya (7:01), Interlude (1:17), Somalatha (7:06), Interlude (2:17), Psilocybe (8:11) 

Psychedelic Space rock? Post Rock? What's in a name? My Sleeping Karma certainly falls into category one: Psychedelic rock music. Instrumental with long tunes in a Post rock sense played concisely and with precision like a math rock band. 

Spiritual in nature, heavy rocking melodic rock with sturdy, steady bass patterns. Music for the soul but not for everyone due to the intonation that the music reaches deep into your consciousness, freeing your soul and tampering with your mind. 

The name of the band is very well chosen; well, maybe we could leave out the 'sleeping' part because that is absolutely not the case. 

Soma is already My Sleeping Karma's fourth album and so far through all of their albums they have progressed forward compositionally and musically. They have jumped forward this time, not failing to impress me with this release. Like in all previous releases the track titles give away the spirituality of the songs. 

The album title itself means, Land, Body and many other things, when I searched for a meaning I literally got five pages of possible options. 

'Soma' is all about relieving and releasing yourself, giving your body and mind food. 

My Sleeping Karma is a four-piece German band going by their first names, maybe nicknames, only - Matte (bass), Seppi (guitar), Steffen (drums) and Norman (soundboard) - thus giving away that we are actually dealing with a three-piece band and a sound engineer responsible for the extra effects in the sound loops and whatever else. 

Bass lines can be melodic and lead bass plays an important role in this music really making sure that the music enters your spirit. All the songs are highly melodic with sometimes long spun out melody lines, the hard riffing always leaning on a heavily present backing sound. 

Soma is a very energetic album, on one hand giving energy by easing your mind, on the other hand drawing all energy from within as it is a heavy psychic musical journey. Not overly complex but certainly well composed and arranged. 

The superb sound makes Soma a wonderful listening experience due to the energetic nature of the songs. It's not going to be everybody's choice in music but I believe it is a must try. Between all the songs rest points in the form of 'Interludes' make space before a new session of Psychedelia crawls upon the listener. Well chosen and another step forward for this excellent band. 

Bron: DPRP