White Manna – Transformation
California longhairs say, Let There Be Space Rock.
We'd like to think these Hell's Angels watching Jon Pertwee's Doctor Who on a barge in 1973 would like White Manna's Transformation. Created by bearded longhairs who formed in Humboldt County, California, the track recalls ’70s Hawkwind, the main riff sounding a little to us like The Right Stuff off Robert Calvert's Captain Lockheed And The Star Fighters album, with the kind of whooshing analogue noise generation a diesel-soaked spacerock trance-out requires. White Manna voice/guitar David J (not the one from Bauhaus) admits that Hawkwind are “a major influence”.
It's taken from the just-released, pupil-dilated LP Dune Worship. Explains David J, “all of the songs on the album were culminated and mostly recorded where I live on the north coast of Humboldt, which has miles of preserved dunes... it’s a very inspiring and powerful place.” Presumably the accompanying video, which revolves around chasing the sun through a forest, is leading there, though there is another song on the album called Illusion Of Illusion...
