Space-Rock
Not Forgotten: Gong – Camembert Electrique
Released in 1971 on French label BYG Actuel, Gong’s second album resurfaced on Virgin Records in 1974 at the special price of 59p, by which time the teapot was in full flight with the Radio Gnome trilogy. Even back then, Daevid Allen’s mythology was close to fully formed. The photo on the back sleeve shows …
Album Review: Black Rainbows – Cosmic Ritual Supertrip
Italy’s cult stoner rockers BLACK RAINBOWS are back with their ass-kicking, whiplash-inducing new album ‘Cosmic Ritual Supertrip’ this May 22nd on Heavy Psych Sounds! The new album is heavier than 2018’s ‘Pandemonium’ and this eighth full-length album is about to turn your heads upside down for good. No matter how psychedelic the title may sound ‘Cosmic Ritual Supertrip’ …
Say Psych: Album Review: Lastryko – Tętno Pulsu
Hailing from the Three city area, a coastal metropolis in the north of Poland comprising of the cities Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot; Lastryko can be placed somewhere between psychedelic, post rock and krautrock. Exuding fluid grooves with an experimental touch, Tętno Pulsu is a collection of selected pieces recorded during an improvised two-day studio session …
Say Psych: Album Review: Sunflowers – Endless Voyage
Sunflowers return with their third LP Endless Voyage; a conceptual sci-fi record about the end of the world, the rise of the machine, doubt about one’s individuality and the acceptance of chaos. It has been recently released on Stolen Body Records, the second to be released with them after 2018’s Castle Spell. This is a …
Say Psych: Album Review: Dreamweapon – SOL
Rating: 8/10 Portugal’s Dreamweapon take their name from the 1990 Spacemen 3 live album Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music, who themselves took inspiration from the work of minimalist drone – or ‘Dream Music’ – visionary La Monte Young and a 1965 multimedia piece titled ‘Rites of The Dreamweapon’ by original The Velvet Underground drummer …
News: Hawkwind announce further UK dates for ‘In Search of Utopia – Infinity and Beyond’ show
NOV 4TH LONDON PALLADIUM – SOLD OUT **SIX NEW DATES ADDED** Due to overwhelming public demand and having sold out the iconic London Palladium 10 months in advance, renowned space rock band Hawkwind have announced further UK dates with their brand new concept show ‘In Search of Utopia – Infinity and Beyond’. For the very …
Album Review: Richard Pinhas – Reverse
Richard Pinhas is what you’d call a pioneer of both electronic music and experimental rock. His early years were spent recording with first Schizo, then space rock pioneers Heldon, as well as releasing records under his own name. He doesn’t shy away from dissonance and extended stays in musical pieces that seem to go on …
Say Psych: Album Review, Lamagaius by Lamagaia
This one-track 28 minute album was originally recorded in 2012, and has previously only seen a very limited cassette release the following year, Lamagaia itself was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2010. Three years later from that comes a self-released vinyl edition limited to 300 copies, and for the majority of us, for whom this …
Say Psych: Album Review, At The Center Of All Infinity by Yuri Gagarin
Happens every year: I do my list of favourite albums and along comes one just after I’ve pressed send and totally blows me away. Having said that I’m not sure what I would have dropped to accommodate ‘At The Centre Of All Infinity’ by Gothenburg’s Yuri Gagarin, but there is absolutely no way that it would …
Say Psych: Album Review – Pan by White Manna
A number of reviews of this latest album by Californian five piece White Manna have inevitably rested on their space rock credentials in relation to prime movers of the genre, Hawkwind. While this is understandable it is, in my view, also a little unfortunate because I rate this album as being significantly better than anything …