World Music

We are extremely excited to announce that World Music, the debut album by the band Goat is to be released on Rocket Recordings on 20th August 2012. For those who are unaware, Goat are a collective of musicians who hail from a small and very remote village called Korpolombolo in deepest darkest Sweden. Legend has it that for centuries, the inhabitants of the village of Korpolombolo were dedicated to the worship and practices of Voodoo. This strange and seemingly unlikely activity was apparently introduced into the area after a travelling witch doctor and a handful of her disciples were led to Korpolombolo by following a cipher hidden within their most sacred of ancient scriptures. The reason it led them there is unknown, but their Voodoo influence quickly took hold over the whole village and so they made it their home - there, they were able to practice their craft unnoticed and unbothered for several centuries. This was until their non-Christian ways were discovered by the Church and they were burned out by the crusaders, the survivors cursing the village over their shoulders as they fled. To this day, the now picturesque village of Korpolombolo is still haunted by this Voodoo curse; the power of the curse can be felt throughout the grooves of this Goat record. The nine track album follows the underground success of the now sought after 7” Goatman, which is also included in this selection. The band takes in many influences, from the Afro groove that is central to the album, through to head nodding psych, post-punk, turkish rock, kraut repetition and astral folk.

The masked psychedelic band Goat claim their project stems from a long-running collective of townspeople in their small Swedish village: People have been playing under the name Goat in various incarnations for decades, but this nine-song, steady-burning World Music is the first proper release.

Swedish five-piece serve an album-sized bowl of excellent voodoo freak-beat broth. Main ingredients: the rhythmic exuberance of Afrobeat and grizzled psych-rock.

Goat are a mysterious collective from the remote village of Korpolombolo in the dark forests of Sweden, a place apparently haunted by a voodoo curse dating back centuries.

Once upon a time, many moons ago, in the tiny Swedish hamlet of Korpolombolo, a voodoo witch doctor came to town.

Goat's psychedelic krautrock-disco is stupendously good fun, however much you believe of their outlandish backstory, writes <strong>Tom Hughes</strong>