Steve Hillage was best known as the guitarist for Gong. He was also in bands like Khan and Arzachel, and more recently, in a techno outfit called System 7. Fish Rising was his first solo effort, released in 1975. If you’re a Gong fan, it’s a no-brainer, you need this album, members of Gong appear […] Continue reading →

Arborescence was one of the very first Ozric Tentacles CDs I have ever bought and I was not one bit disappointed. To me, this is one of their best albums ever. I thought this was a more consistent offering than their previous effort, Jurassic Shift (1993), which it too is excellent. Arborescence opens up with […] Continue reading →

Phaedrus Lives on! From the writer of Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig, comes another inspirational book. Pirsig tries to define the meaning of Quality again by dividing it into static and dynamic quality. Static quality is in daily occurences, whereas dynamic quality is an extraordinary unusual situation. Phaedrus’s metaphysical journey […] Continue reading →

Spain isn’t the first place you think of for psychedelic gems, and especially not during the Franco regime, but Pan & Regaliz pulled off such an album, in 1971, during Franco’s regime. This is not a name of a duo, but the name of a band, which consisted of bassist and vocalist Arturo Domingo, vocalist […] Continue reading →

Ozric Tentacles, one of the leading bands of the British free festival scene had often received criticisms that all their albums sound alike. Well, that’s not entirely true, they do evolve, but their sound, for the most part, is quite recognizable from album to album. The Hidden Step, released in 2000, is another excellent installment […] Continue reading →

If you’ve wondered what a modern hippie band might be like, look no further than Britain’s Ozric Tentacles. They were and still are a regular on the British free festival circuit. From the mid to late 1980s the band released six privately issued cassettes: Eprsongs (1985), Tantric Obstacles (1985), Live Etheral Cereal (1986), There is […] Continue reading →

Fantastic Planet is one of the most unusual sci-fi films I have ever seen. It’s a sci-fi animated dealing with blue-skinned giants known as the Traags, who keep Oms, which are descendants of Earthlings who left their planet after its destruction, as pets. One Om, named Terr was kept as a pet by a Traag […] Continue reading →

‘The Madcap Laughs’ is Syd Barrett’s first solo album and exposes the two things Syd is most known for: interesting musical ideas that got started one of the most important bands ever (if there are indeed some who don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s ‘Pink Floyd’) and, well, madness. Some would say Syd’s solo […] Continue reading →

This film should appeal not just to those of us disenchanted or plain disinterested in 9-5 society, but also to anyone who enjoys a strong character based comedy. Set in London and the English countryside at the tail end of the 60’s, the state of mind of the two main characters reflects the mood of […] Continue reading →

‘T. Rex’ only made two kinds of music – acoustic, psychedelic, hippy folk rock and unforgettable, fascinating, mesmerizing glam rock. ‘The Slider’ is a shining example of the latter – weird lyrics, wild rock’n’roll and glam! – glam pouring out of every line, every scream, every hiss. You can just picture Bolan singing with his […] Continue reading →