Sula Bassana/Skyjoggers Split LP (Sulatron st2405)

Sula is one of the major artists in Europe for psychedelic rock music and this live album (All songs recorded live at Dazed & Spaced Festival, Bar 227 Hamburg, in April 2024), features his new 4 piece band, to play music from his solo albums and create new music.  Skyjoggers are a trio from Finland and I had never heard of them before but if you look at their bandcamp page, they have a lot of music out!!!  Anyway, they start off the LP with a very intense high energy psychedelic rock trip out called Step One: Breathe, Step Two: Levitate… This track reminds me a lot of another Tampere band, Void Transmission.. Lightrunner, keeps the intensity high and the vocalist is quite mad at times and uses these crazy delays.. For Outer Space, they bring the energy down and start off a bit bluesy with some nice spacey guitar. A great change from the others but it builds up to an almost doomy end.  Cool..

Side B features two tracks one from Sula´s latest solo album and then a cosmic freakout jam.  A very nice version of We Will Make It, very space at times and solid groove but then builds up to a heavy ending. Come with Me, is a jam and starts off with spoken word and Sula playing a sort of gypsy music like theme on the organ before we head off into heavy space out territory, ala Electric Moon but with more spacey parts and dynamics.. Great stuff..

https://skyjoggers.bandcamp.com

https://sulabassana.bandcamp.com