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My 18 year old daughter has a thing, where anytime she’s
hears a sitar on what I’m listening to, she’ll affectionately
call it ‘hippie music’. And she means that in the nicest
possible way. Now what I was listening to was the latest
release from Oresund Space Collective entitled Good Planets
are hard to Find and she had no idea how correct she really
was in that description. This is the bands 5th official
CD and her ‘hippie’ observations are more accurate than
I initially expected. Especially when you understand that
hippie music - is to psychedelic music - is to acid rock
- is to space music - is exactly what we have here.
It is true that OSC are very much a space-rock band,
but I guess you could say that space-rock comes in many
shapes and sizes and this time around with their ever revolving
set of players the music has taken on a more decided psychedelic
feel, especially with the guitar. I was just blown away
by the many subtle sixties references. The overall feel
is still long-extended musical works that move you to trance
like states, but at the same time with the music on Good
Planets are hard to Find, you could almost feel the floor
moving in one of the San Francisco ballrooms while listening
to this stuff. The mix made it even more so, where one instrument
would slide out of the picture only to have another slide
in with a different riff. It was all very organic and yet
still very spacey. But I have to say on this disc the guitars
really made it for me; a hint of Quicksilver Messenger Service,
a dash of early Pink Floyd and smidgen of Jefferson Airplane…but
without the vocals. What we have here are six really long
instrumentals; the shortest being a ‘mere’ 6:01 and the
longest being 19:28. The sitar I mentioned makes a powerful
appearance on the opening and closing tracks and is provided
by KG from the band Siena Root. On top of that the music’s
overall feel is pretty up-tempo, especially in “Orbital
Elevator [16:12] where it starts slow and then just keeps
building and building going faster and faster. Wild!
Oresund Space Collective have made it a point to capitalize
on their revolving door of members, seeing it as a way to
breathe new life into their sound and style. Each disc comes
with a completely fresh approach. That’s not something that
every group can handle but OSC seem to thrive on it. And
if the music on Good Planets are Hard to Find is any indication
their formula has a lot of life left in it. This is a great
disc; it’s interesting to listen to, sounds good and is
played well. Space-rock fans, you’ll want to avail yourself
of this disc as soon as humanly or alienly possible.
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