Heath – Isaak’s Marble

 

 

Heath – Isaak’s Marble
Suburban Records – 2024
Rock, Seventies, Prog, Psych, Blues, Classic
Rated: ****

This five piece hails from The Hague, Netherlands. Or well, they reside there, for Heath has members from Sweden, Australia and the Netherlands. And on their debut album Isaak’s Marble they not only traverse the globe looking for the right kind of sonic inclusions for their sound, they also travel through space and time to take everything in that has been done before. This is that early prog, the psych of yore, the sixties and seventies approach to the right kind of Kool-Aid for you to guzzle and enjoy. The atmospheric parts are as colorful as a flowery meadow, the harmonica induces zealous energy and the guitar solos will have you dancing around like a flower power love child. And that’s just on the opening ten minute long title-track, which gives you everything you need to know about Heath and their debut album Isaak’s Marble. And because those ten minutes will ignite a spark at every one of your nerve endings, you will be sticking around for the following ten minute long Wondrous Wetlands. With a more Americana and pastoral scene beginning, a bit of jazz to turn it all into the classic rock, blues and psych you are expecting, it becomes this beautiful and blooming prog rock dalliance that flutters and feels like the perfect spring day. And because they profess themselves not to be limited by any boundaries, it ends with the Wondrous Wetlands snow globe being violently shaken and heated above a fragrant fireplace. With a few seconds short of seven minutes, the following Strawberry Girl is the shortest track on the album. Miniscule Eastern touches, some scoot boogie funkiness and a whole lot of catchiness, this is impossible to sit still to. The almost fourteen minute long Valley Of The Sun closes the album, once again with that Eastern touch, the warmth of candle lit summer nights and so many layers that the colors of the Persian rug will start to flow over into each other as the trip continues. With some highly dynamic twists and turns, even a few very intense and radical moves, Valley Of The Sun feels like the magnus opus of five hippies that just want to run wild together. And that’s something we love to hear! Heath has been together for only two years, released those three stand alone tracks you can find on their Bandcamp and has now unleashed their full-sized debut, which are some forty-one minutes of pure psychedelic bliss. Four tracks that are as good as they come, with nothing amiss. And judging from every meticulously placed note, sound and wisp, they’re not just playing for Isaak’s Marble…

(Written by JK)

The album comes out May 10th.
But you can listen to Atalantis and two earlier singles on their bandcamp... 

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