This is more or less a Sendelica
album with Chris Purdon (Ex-Space Ritual) on synths and Paul (Ex-Curved Air) on
violin as guests. Each side features a
long track and it was recorded on a weekend in July 2019 and reassembled by
Colin, Marc (Astralasia) and Pete (Sendelica). The opening track, Track Seven
you could have heard already on the very rare lathe cut record (only 50 made!)
and this opens this album. Quite trippy stuff with spoken words in different
languages as the violin creates a dark mood and nice synth sounds. It makes for
a quite psychedelic soundscape. This
lasts for over 18mins. Side 2, Track Four (Noah’s March Mix) starts spaced out
with cows, birds, and some nice acoustic guitar and bass. Eventually, the full
band comes in with the sax taking the lead. Later the violin and cello play
some very beautiful lines while the background music is very spacey and
floating. About 13mins in Pedro lays
down a very nice guitar solo. Amazing..
I really love this track. So did the wife! Side 3 is a medley of Track
6, 7, 5.. They are not very imaginative with the song titles, sorry.. Although
they do give the strange mix names like Yangtze Basin Mix (Track 5). Anyway,
this track starts quite uptempo compared to the other tracks with an almost
folk rock like vibe with the fiddle. Very hypnotic. By 6 mins it is quite
psychedelic and spaced out with some cool synth parts and sounds. Love the
stuff Chris is doing on this album. Around 16mins the track starts to leave the
spaced out place and head to higher ground with a new momentum and a return to
the hypnotic place it starts. Very cool stuff. Track 3 is another 21 min track
that takes up the entire side 4. A
spoken word, some effected keyboards start things off to twist your mind bit. This one stays pretty trippy and experimental
for a long while with a lot of phasing and effects until 8 mins or so when we
go into a more high tempo sort of space rock.
By 11mins, the sampled voice is back and a new direction is taken.
Phew…. Great ending.
This is a really
cool project/album and I hope they make another one. I really enjoyed this one
a lot. For sure one to be on the best of 2020 list!
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