On his standout debut LP, DJ Grzyb marshals a rudely squashed swamp dance at the head of his octet, The Make-Believe Ensemble, landing with early support by Nathan Gregory Wilkins, babyschön, Skyrager (Psychemagick), Tom Ravenscroft, Elena Colombi
The lessons of dub, new age ambient and Italian cosmic disco that fed into the proto-Goa melange continue to inspire DJ Grzyb and his band of slow disco marauders on this trippy 14-track journey. Their first venture unfolds as a sort of album-cum-mixtape, all handling a vast array of East-West instruments - from brass and woodwind sections to sitar, tanpura, and trad. Thai khaen, ching, pi phu Thai - in a wandering sort of cinematic, narrative-driven fashion. It’s almost entirely yoked to a purposefully slow pace, but does prang out a sore thumb ‘The Three Deaths’ ft. Naphta, aiming it all squarely at the feet of Vladimir Ivkovic or Andrew Weatherall fiends.
