Lama Rabi Rabi is an album by the band Ghost. Drag City released the album in 1996, the first time a Ghost album had been issued by an American label.
Critical reception
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'." 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."
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."
Track listing "Masttillah" - 8:03 "RabiRabi" - 7:32 "Into the Alley" - 4:37 "Marrakech" - 5:18 "Who Found a Lost Rose in the Warship?" - 3:11 "Mex Square Blue" - 4:14 "My Hump is a Shell" - 1:44 "Bad Bone" - 4:17 "Abyssinia" - 3:36 "Agate Scape" - 10:49 "Summer's Ashen Fable" - 6:04
Personnel Taishi Takizawa Junichi Yamamoto Iwao Yamazaki Kazuo Ogino Michio Kurihara Masaki Batoh
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