Lama Rabi Rabi | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Ghost |
Cover: | Lamarabirabi.jpg |
Released: | December 10, 1996 |
Recorded: | 1996 |
Genre: | Neo-psychedelia Experimental rock Psychedelic folk |
Length: | 59:25 |
Label: | Drag City |
Producer: | Taishi Takizawa |
Prev Title: | Temple Stone |
Prev Year: | 1994 |
Next Title: | Snuffbox Immanence |
Next Year: | 1999 |
Lama Rabi Rabi is an album by the band Ghost.[1] [2] Drag City released the album in 1996, the first time a Ghost album had been issued by an American label.[3]
The Austin Chronicle wrote: "Highlights include the acid-psych mantra 'Rabirabi' and the fleeting, phantasmal folk of 'Into the Alley', eclipsed only by 11-minute crescendo 'Agate Scape'."[4] Spin noted that "you can hear psychedelia, vocals fed through a megaphone, a folk tune interrupted by studio phasing, even hints of a power ballad." The Staten Island Advance determined that "whirling, chant-driven, progressive-rockers lead way to a beautifully rolling folk-rock, recalling an amalgamation of Quicksilver Messenger Service, Incredible String Band, Flying Saucer Attacks and Pink Floyd."[5]
AllMusic wrote that "the lengthy, fascinating 'Mastillah' starts Lama on a striking high, with a series of percussive instruments meshed with acoustic drones and low, wordless mantras, leading to a steady rhythm pace."