New from
Germany’s furthest out Psych/Krautrock/Space Rock record label, a couple of
great CD releases from Sulatron Records………………….September sees the release of
the third part of the Astral Son album trilogy and the long awaited CD re-issue
of Electric Moon’s brain scrambling 2011 LP The Doomsday Machine.
Astral Son
is the Psychedelic side-project of Dutch musician and painter Leonardo Soundweaver……….influenced by Gong, Ashra Tempel, Pink Floyd, Hawkwind and
Brainticket and beaming in from the edge of the Galaxy. the third Astral Son
album is a kaleidoscopic blend of mind bending Space Rock, sprawling Acid Rock
and propulsive Krautrock which fans of old-school 70s Prog/Psych are really
going to dig. The final part of a spaced out trilogy which includes the albums Gurumaya
and Silver Moon, Mind’s Eye channels the vibe and spirit of classic “head
music”, raiding the far out archives of U.A., Virgin, Ohr and Brain records for
inspiration…………..break out the bong Space Cadets, it’s one hell of a trip. Creating
spectral, alien soundtracks with dense layers of fuzzed out, distorted, treated
guitars and pulsing synths, Astral Son has absorbed the best elements of the
more experimental sounds of the 60s and expertly mixed them with the cosmic
soundscapes of the early 70s…………………..with spiralling organ and swirling
guitars, the opening track of Mind’s Eye, the epic ‘Time For Change’, is what a
holy union between Vibravoid and Gong would sound like. Sequenced and mixed as
one continuous astral odyssey, the album ebbs and flows as if caught on cosmic
winds with tracks merging seamlessly through the bubbling, Tangerine
Dream-esque ‘Brainstorm’ the early Pink Floyd influenced ‘The Way’, Psychedelic
wig-outs such as ‘See Your Self’ and the album’s title track before exploding
into a thousand shards of coloured light on the final track, the acid drenched
‘This Trip’. A proper album for all you Heads out there, Mind’s Eye really hits
the spot.
Mind’s Eye
is out NOW on CD and available from either the Sulatron Records website or from
the Astral Son Bandcamp site here https://astralson.bandcamp.com/. The album is also due to be
released on vinyl by Headspin Records sometime in November, so keep ‘em peeled
People.
Originally
released back in 2011 as a seriously limited run of 2 x LP and CD on Nasoni Records (which completely sold out ages ago), the third Electric Moon studio
album The Doomsday Machine gets a much welcomed CD reissue by Sulatron Records.
Much darker and heavier than the more recent Electric Moon LPs and had the
tracks been edited down to around the 5 minute mark this album may have been
their shot at wider commercial acceptance within the more mainstream Heavy Rock
community………but fuck that, with three out of five tracks at least 20 minutes
long, you know that Electric Moon are going to blast away, tearing a black hole
into the dark side of space until the tape runs out. Very dense and very
psychedelic, The Doomsday Machine mashes up squalling Acid Rock with atmospheric
passages of kosmische Space Rock that drift through time and space pulling the
listener deep into Electric Moon’s trip ………it’s a phenomenal record by a
phenomenal band. If epic Stoner Rock/Space Rock freak outs are your thing you
really need to wrap your ears around this record. The outstanding track has to
be ‘Stardust Service’ where trippy, treated vocals from Komet Lulu and Sula
Bassana’s squalling, psychedelic guitar wig-out are underpinned by driving
drums and bass………it’s one of the most glorious 20 minutes of music that
Electric Moon have ever committed to tape. For newer fans of Electric Moon, The Doomsday Machine is a piece of their history you will want to check out, its mind blowing stuff…………it
will turn your brain inside out.
The CD
re-issue of The Doomsday Machine from Sulatron Records out NOW and available
directly from their website or from the Electric Moon Bandcamp page here https://electric-moon.bandcamp.com/album/the-doomsday-machine.
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