Spaghetti Eastern Electro Dub
Live at Green Kill Sessions
(Bad Egg Records)
Hudson Valley mainstay Sal Cataldi’s jammy, soulful psych rock project Spaghetti Eastern is enough of an institution that it has an equally beloved second manifestation as Spaghetti Eastern Electro Dub. Here, Cataldi’s electric guitar odysseys, evoking Jeff Beck and Duane Allman, are lent a groove by way of Tom Semioli’s lushly lubricious basslines, Dirk Drazen’s sibilant snares and languid drum fills, and the plaintive whine of the dautar, a customized, stringed instrument with a slyly homonymous name played by the band’s sonic seer, Dawoud Kringle. Kringle’s contributions elevate SEED’s skillfully executed, but sometimes overly familiar music—an earnest, committed homage to what was once called acid rock, filtered through a dub sensibility—transporting the listener to a sacral realm. This album, in fact, documents a live performance, at the invaluable, peer-driven Kingston community art space Green Kill, the audience an almost uncannily silent accomplice bearing rapt witness—psychonauts, in cosmic cahoots.
This article appears in November 2025.
