Via a series of carefully considered yet wildly divergent concepts – a cyclically-constructed album here, a set comprised exactly of four songs of 10 mins and 10 seconds in length there – The Gizz’s collective body of work offers visceral thrills a-plenty without ever once resorting to indulgence or filling their own navels with drool. The unexpected is just about only thing we have come to expect from the Melbourne band. “It’s a bendy, wobbly-sounding instrument, and blends perfectly with the secret notes on the guitar”.
“The zurna’s notes are really malleable,” says Stu. Recorded in their own studio Brunswick East in Melbourne, the album also incorporates liberal use of the stirring tones of a Turkish horn called a zurna, as heard on the likes of ‘Billabong Valley’, the purple smoke-enshrouded, sub-Sabbath ‘Doom City’ and the moving musical miasma that is the album’s utterly transcendental title track.
A keyboard and mouth organ followed suit and so Flying Microtonal Banana was born. Inspired by the movable frets of the Turkish bağlama, three cheap old guitars and a bass were customized in order to explore a new set of musical notes.
So unique and evolved is the album’s sound that it necessitated a total reinvention of the band’s instruments after they began experimenting with a custom microtonal guitar made for frontman Stu Mackenzie. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are the most exciting head-spinning, third-eye opening, double-drumming goddamn rock ‘n’ roll band on the planet.įollowing the frazzled freakbeat of 2016’s Nonagon Infinity, the endlessly inventive septet return in 2017 with new album Flying Microtonal Banana, their ninth studio album in five years, and the first of five – count ‘em – planned new albums to be recorded and released in 2017 and beyond.įlying Microtonal Banana marks another subtle shift in sound as King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard drive deep into trance-inducing drones, inventive jazz flourishes, non-Western musical scales and metronomic rhythms that motor along like a well-oiled engine.
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