In all the years of having this music blog,
I have never actually written an article about myself and all my musical
projects. I have so many things happening at the moment that I really wanted to
get some of this off my chest and out of the bag. I am so grateful to all the wonderful
musicians that I get to interact with and play music with. Since I retired from
being a diabetes researcher, I have been super busy making music, playing live
concerts, releasing music, etc.. I
never ever imagined this. The picture to the right shows all the releases I was involved with in 2019.
Anyway, yesterday, Feb 7th, 2020,
ØSC (Øresund Space Collective)
released our 34th release, Experiments in the Subconsious. The
reviews (not many) have been fantastic and the pre-orders, the most we have ever
received via bandcamp. I am so grateful. Fantastic artwork by Dennis W Fleet.
What a vision!!!
Sadly, ØSC will not
play that many concerts this year as we lost too much money last year and it is
too difficult to get a decent fee to cover the expenses (much less make a
little money). It really sucks as I
think the band we have now for live shows is so incredible and creative and we
create magic every night…
Anyway, we will play:
Anyway, we will play:
Cressando
Festival, France Aug 22nd
(Our first time ever in France!)
Høstsabbat, Oslo, NO Oct 2nd (not played in Oslo since 2007!)
Høstsabbat, Oslo, NO Oct 2nd (not played in Oslo since 2007!)
At the moment, that could be all the gigs
this year unless we get some better offers. We would love to play more gigs in
May around the Spaceboat but nothing has materialized yet.
Black Moon Circle- We had an
incredible year last year playing all over Europe and Scandinavia and releasing
the incredible 5CD Studio Jams Vol 1-3 Box set as well as the Freak out in the
Fjord 3LP/2CD set with ØSC. It has been a few years since the Psychedelic Space
Lord, our last studio record (which was really a jam!) but we have lots of
great songs (The Ghost, Monster Serpent, Spaced Out People, etc..). The plan is
to record the new record this year. There will not be many gigs before the
fall. We also need a new drummer!The studio Jams Vol 4-5 will also come out this year.
https://blackmooncircle.bandcamp.com/
Doctors of Space, my new
project here in Portugal, is a duo with Martin Weaver (Dark, Wicked Lady). We
played 3 gigs last year and had a great time. We just released our first 7”
record in December, Ghouls ‘n’ Shit. See the video below.
We have just completed our full length
record and hope to have this out in May-June. We have a track featured on the
Metal Hammer Portugal CD compilation out in March! We have 2 gigs already confirmed for this
year. We hope to play a lot more in Portugal if we can.
Toca da Raposa, Meruge PT March 14th
Unifant Festival, Travancinha, PT Aug 1st
Unifant Festival, Travancinha, PT Aug 1st
Alien Planet Trip Vol 4- Space with
Bass. Vol 3 came out last year in May
and Vol 4 was born this last summer and only recently completed. All the other previous volumes featured different guitar players but these tracks I had recorded just would not work with guitar (I thought) so we tried bass and it was incredible!! Hasse Horrigmoe
(Tangle Edge, ØSC), recorded some incredible bass over some of my synthesizer
improvisations. Later, additional synth was added on many tracks. These tracks
have been meticulously mixed making this one incredible musical journey of just
synthesizers and bass guitar (with lots of effects at times). 7 tracks in just over 80mins. I am very proud of this unique record. I don’t think I have ever heard a record
quite like this one.
DR SPACE
In October, 2019, I finished reading this
great book called The
Long Trip by Paul Devereux. IT
inspired me to take 2 days and record 5 pieces of music. They are all linked
together via some Native American Indian chanting and form about a 40min
musical journey with changes in mood and flow. I really enjoyed recording and
mixing this. At the moment the record is
called Dr Space- Nykawana. I have would like to find a label to release it,
that could give it more exposure than Space
Rock Productions (my label with Sabine from Sapphire Records). Great cover by David Graham. What do you
think???
In December 2019, Matt Couto (ex-Elder
Drummer) contacted me about if we could make some music together. Matt and I
have been friends for a number of years and always hung out whenever Elder came
to town. He and Elder visited my house last year when Elder were in
Portugal. I said YES.. Well, we have now
created 10 tracks under the name Aural Hallucinations.
We have one track you can preview on
bandcamp. Our approach has been to trade equal number of tracks and we each
overdub whatever we want over the top and I mix the material. We are finishing up the record now. Matt is
making the artwork. The plan is for us to release this ourselves in limited
numbers on vinyl, tape and CD. Keep an eye and ear out.. We will slowly add some more tracks to the page.
Other
releases this year, I hope will be the following:
ØSC- Sonic Rock Solstice 2019 CD (initially
for bandcamp
only subscribers but later some copies will be available for sale)
ØSC- Sleeping with the Sunworm 2LP (one of
the last of our older releases not yet on vinyl. IT will have one unreleased
full album side track!)
Alien Planet Trip Vol 5 (one side is finished
but still waiting on the other guitar player to send his tracks!)
ØSC- another studio album (November)
Special thanks to my musical inspirations- Doug Walker (RIP), Sula Bassana (Dave Schmidt), Klaus Schultze, Magnus Hannibal, Stefan Krey, Jonathan Segel, Hasse Horrigmoe and many many more..
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