Ikitan – Shaping The Chaos

 

 

Ikitan – Shaping The Chaos
Taxi Driver Records – 2025
Rock, Metal, Post, Prog, Stoner, Instrumental
Rated: ****

What a grandiose drop of awesome albums yesterday! March 7th 2025, will go down in history as a majestic day for the heavy underground. The new Kaiser and Kryptograf were two of those amazing albums that were released yesterday, but there were many more, like for instance Shaping The Chaos by Italian trio Ikitan. We mentioned their Twenty-Twenty EP from 2020 and have been listening to their TOOL informed instrumental stoner, prog and post rock ever since their new promo landed in our email. An album inspired by inexplicable phenomena or weird places around planet earth, which will definitely strike a chord among many of the heavy rock fans. For most of them have a wild imagination and are always keen to experience visions of the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs, volcanic streams, the Gates of Hell crater in Turkey, the rocks that move around Death Valley, ghost lights, mumification and much more. Ending their tale with the sound of the loneliest, sole of the species, of a certain whale. Which I had not known about. (Although back in 2010 and 2022 researchers found out there might be one or two more.) There are definite jazzy and jam-like sections like on fifth and longest track Natron, which also hears violin weave itself across the composition, but most of the album shapes itself like meticulously crafted post and prog. And in doing so molds that one ten and a half minute long track as the ‘chaotic’ centerpiece. Following Bung Fai Phaya Nak, with its drooping, falling opening, its powerful end section, slowly dissipating once again, but then instead sleepily ascending, wonderfully done. And that guitar work on Brinicle, stunning. A bit of funk in the drum style and bass groove from time to time give Shaping The Chaos that extra bit of bop and bounce. And the way they make all of it come together in various centers, like a centrifuge, feels like it all is acting on some holy bond to create something special. Ikitan is its name…  

(Written by JK)

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