Progressive Instrumentalist Jammers Automatism Share New Album "Immersion" in Full!

Automatism is an instrumental rock band from Stockholm, Sweden. The music of the quartet is based on psych rock, with some added herbal, progressive and modal jazz elements. The band comments: "We look for moments of effortless music creation and try to capture them on record. Most songs are improvised live in the studio, with overdubs added."

Listen: https://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2020/10/01/automatism-immersion-premiere-review/

The Obelisk notes: "In some places, it’s easy to imagine where the improv ends and the overdub begins, as on the space-rocking second cut, “Falcon Machine.” Like a mellow Hawkwind homage, its basic track is a relatively straight-outward push. Wiberg‘s keys add to the sweeping wash post-midsection, but the underlying progression and kosmiche flow is maintained, and it’s from that root that the rest of the song, whether it’s those keys or the lead guitar flourish, is built. Automatism have no trouble shifting approach across side A, automatism immersionwhether it’s the bass-punch-intro’ed spacejazz fusion of “Heatstroke #2,” “Falcon Machine”‘s all-systems-go-but-you-know-take-your-time-man-whenever-you’re-ready vibe or the righteous drift that emerges from the cymbal wash on “Monochrome Torpedo,” which is kind of what I wish all post-rock sounded like, but while they’re able to change the sonic context of a given track, they do so by transposing the same working modus. They could go from death metal to reggae — they don’t, and probably wouldn’t — and what would matter is the process beneath the songs and how they’re built up around those basic jams."

Immersion is the third full length release for the label. On the album the band works together with the outstanding musicians Per Wiberg on keyboards (Kamchatka, King Hobo, ex-Opeth), Jesper Skarin on drums (Vak, Gösta Berlings Saga) and Jakob Sjöholm on guitar (Träd, Gräs och Stenar).

Automatism have toured with The Spacelords and Kombynat Robotron in Sweden and Germany, and in 2019 they played together with Acid Rooster at the Psychedelic Network Festival, among others.