The same sort of feeling is brought by "Slinky", that offers some fine and soft keyboard layers, combined by an excellent bass play. It gets more upbeat for the second half. This track sounds fully jazzy but on the soft side. The last section of this almost nine minutes track holds some brilliant guitar work to be complete. A good piece of music. The song ends on a more soft and spacey beat which is quite elegant. Some space-rock combined with Oriental mood brilliantly opens "Oakum".
After a minute or so, the sound seriously leans on TD which is not to dislike me of course and the soft keyboards are quite pleasant. The song gets more upbeat after three minutes and the interplay guitar - keyboards is excellent. Quite dynamic and performing for a good bunch of it, the song reverts to a softer mood for the closing section. Another good moment out of this "Spiral In Hyperspace". This album is made of several long pieces between seven and nine minutes ; during "Psychic Chasm", one can find the usual OT music: a combination of upbeat space- rock together with some electronic phantasmagoria.
The closing "Zoemetra" introduces fine Oriental flavours again this is not a new feature from the band.
The percussion work is pretty good and it is a nice way to close this good album. This work should please any jazz-rock fan; it is a good album which combines different influences.
The mix could have been more in favour of space-rock than jazz to get a higher score. As such: three stars.
The songs here are very sharp, possessing a clinical edge distinct amongst the group's more organic sounding work. Sound effects take the place of world instrumentation, giving "Spirals" a very technicological feel to it, with Ed Wynne's guitar actually taking a a short break giving way to noisy electonic indulgence.
There are some very cool moments to be had here, but I found myself wishing for more. Another reviewer describes this album as "video game music"-- and that's not too far off the mark, although I don't find the term as pejorative as they. This is probably due to the fact that Wynne has arranged most of these tunes with little help. Thus, the songs feel somewhat one-dimensional. Still, be prepared for a journey that lives up to the album's name.
A nice throbbing sound here. Check out the percussion 6 minutes in then the guitar returns lighting it up. An enjoyable sound really. Guitar after 6 minutes. Some guitar then a calm after 5 minutes. The tempo picks up after 4 minutes.
An electronic beat follows as the water sounds continue. Hillage guests on this one with guitar and as usual sounds amazing. Good track. As I said this is a good album but for me it doesn't compare to those nineties albums. The album starts with Chewier, that in spite of being heavy on the keys it's an excellent energetic rocker, top that with a furious guitar solo ala Steve Vai from Ed, a great opener indeed.
Spirals In Hyperspace is one of the best and longest pieces here proving what a genius Mr. Wynne is, there's some beautiful keys work here accompanied by fantastic guitar solos, I love how the atmosphere here is relaxed although this is quite an upbeat track.
It turns middle eastern about half way ending with some crushing guitar work outs, great stuff! Slinky is another long piece led mostly by the keyboard, although I usually need more than just that ,it feels complete and enjoyable with its tranquil and spacey atmosphere, 2. Toka Tola is a favorite of mine, it is more upbeat, I just love that infectious theme and the interplay between guitar and keys all along.
Plasmoid is my least favorite here, again it is mostly led by keys, not bad at all but I'm not a fan of this kind of harsh and edgy sound, coming from the Ozrics make it moderately enjoyable for me. Oakum is the most famous piece here being sometimes performed live, played here with real drums making this piece sound the most natural and organic.
Nothing original really just another space rocker that the Ozrics are so good at delivering. Good synth and keys work plus great guitars from Ed and as I mentioned before Zia Geelani's excellent bass work. Akasha featuring Steve Hillage is definitely one of the highest points on the album, probably the best track here. A very unique piece with a cool rhythm, amazing synth work and of course brilliant interplay between guitars, it turnes more energetic half way through and it works perfectly.
Psychic Chasm is another unique sounding piece making this album a bit more diverse, the first part is led by a tribal drumming on tablas and floaty sounds, this is wonderful. It gets more upbeat later with great synth work guitar is added to spice things up it sounds like a real party now, later on the beat gets more deep sounding, this could work on a rave trance party I kid you not, very very nice! Zoemetra is another organic middle eastern sounding track, although pretty upbeat it's not heavy but quite laid back and calm, great ending to this album.
I think this is another well written, tightly crafted and overall successful attempt by Ed Wynne, once you get passed the heavy keyboard sound of the album and start paying attention to the details this is a very rewarding album. To me, this on of the best things that ever happened to music. Except for three songs, all the drums are programmed. Most of the songs feature sequenced bass and have beautiful interplay Spirals in Hyperspace is an excellent representation of what Ozric Tentacles are all about as a band.
It is a perfect starting point inquiring minds wishing to take them in. They are a talent group of musicians who have created a sound, which I my experience is uniquely attributable to them. Spirals in hyperspace the last ozric album with,seaweed,john,zia,which is a shame as i think they were important to the ozric sound but things have to change at times well come on a shreading of skin needs to happen,it starts with chewier and starts with synth really starting well and drums come One of their best albums to the date,released in ,amazing work,there is no doubt about it..
You can hear the evolution,more progressive, taking some fine momments of waterfall cities album,in a certain way have a lot of tendencies with new age music,but i think that the music on this is not b He is a real GURU of the synths, a capable musician, reinventing himself in Maybe only Queen can, and I everyday wonder why almost noone knows Ozric Tentacles, but their live gigs are always filled of amazed crowds.
Probably because they never did anything to promote themselves, other than prod Wow what an amazing but mundane, complex but simple, innovative yet stagnant, and engaging but boring piece of music! How can music contain all of these contradictory qualities?
This is Spirals in Hyperspace. I think of this music more as "mood" music that may be interesting or conjur up one I've been an Ozrics fan for some time now, a number of years since a friend of mine introduced me with 'The Hidden Step', a masterpiece of an album. This would be the first release they'd made since i'd been a fan of theirs, and I looked forward to it.
That is the main idea. I mean the writing is very organic with us. Things suggest themselves, almost as if the track is writing itself. We're just the people that are putting it on there. It's like the bit of music is telling us what to play. It all sounds very mystical, but it's just suggestion really. They're probably hybrids. There are about 10 different eastern sounding scales that I use, depending on what type of rhythm is behind it. I don't know what they are called, but they are very ethnic sounding.
I do like the eastern scales. A lot of what I listen to is very, very raw ethnic music. People out in the middle of nowhere staying on a campsite clonking bits of wood together and playing home made violins and stuff. I'd much prefer to listen to that than anything in the Top 10 singles chart. Contact Ozric Tentacles. Streaming and Download help. Report this album or account. If you like Ozric Tentacles, you may also like:.
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