Toxic Mind is a mostly instrumental progressive space
rock band from Finland. The artwork is really cool on this CD and it includes
the lyrics as well. The CD starts off with a spaced out spoken word intro that
leads into The Birth of NGC223. This is a great Ozric tentacles inspired track
but the end they go into a really melodic guitar part with some great synth
solos and also nice saxophone solos. A really fantastic track, with a bit of Spanish
twist to it. Carnival in Space is a very cool high energy track with some voices
by Oona that really do compliment the track well. A lot of cool guitar parts
shifting between the speakers as well. The sax returns towards the end to
finish it off. The drums and bass are really cool as well and remind me of
GONG. Dynamic stuff. UFO keeps the pace
high and features some like honky tonk piano back and forth with the guitar.
Fun track and something really different. Constructing a Human starts slow and
spacey but then takes off lead by the synthesizer and then some more Spanish eh
guitar into the sax, this brings the track down but only briefly. Oona returns once again on this long and
dynamic track. The Destruction of Mankind actually features real singing and is
one of the more melodic tracks on the record, with a more laid back and fluid
dynamic. A new Beginning is the first to feature some acoustic guitar and I
really like the sort of flangy guitar and intense drumming at the end. Oona
returns with her melodic floating voices. The CD ends with a track called
Evolution, which again features some acoustic guitar. This is a really cool new
band with influences from ozric Tentacles, GONG, Hidria Spacefolk and bands
like this. I really enjoyed the CD a lot.
Do you know where I can find this album for purchase? They don't respond to emails sent to their gmail address and all their pages (myspace/facebook etc.) have to be updated since 2008...
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