When you think Tangerine Dream, you might think “New Age”, should be put in the same category as Yanni and John Tesh. Don’t, as their early material is just incredible and mindblowing, nothing like what they’ve been doing in the last 15 years or thereabout. Electronic Meditation is Tangerine Dream’s debut and is very unlike […] Continue reading →

In the 1980s, a new band playing progressive space rock music knew right away they’re never going to find a label to release their stuff. Hawkwind was able to get labels to release their new albums in the 1980s, but then they had the benefit of releasing many albums in the previous decade (their debut […] Continue reading →

Back in the 1970s, there were a string of rather cheesy, but amusing low budget documentary movies that surfaced. Heck, even that style hit television with In Search Of… with Leonard Nimoy. Mysteries From Beyond Earth, from 1976, was one of these cheesy low-budget movie documentaries. The picture quality is grainy, and everything about the […] 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Rainbow Dome Musick, released in 1979, is quite different from all of Hillage’s other solo efforts. For one thing, this is an all-instrumental work, with just him on guitar, glissando guitar and synthesizers, and Miquette Giraudy on synthesizers. Only two side length cuts. Apparently the music to this album was for an event held in […] Continue reading →