Ozric tentacles

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Ozric tentacles
Ozric Tentacles live in Zagreb in 2004.jpg
General information
Genre (s) Space rock , psychedelic rock
founding 1984
Website www.ozrics.com

The Ozric Tentacles are an English space rock band with strong psychedelic rock influences. They were founded in Somerset , England in 1984 and have released 29 albums to date (2007).

Their music is a mixture of style elements from psychedelic dub, psychedelic trance , psychedelic space rock, ambient and ethnic rock . In their style, electronic sounds as well as the sounds of flutes , drums , a distorted electric guitar and other instruments glide smoothly into one another or are woven into a shimmering sound carpet . A piece with a slow, spherical dub passage can turn into hard rock that is always framed by psychedelic sounds.

Ozric Tentacles played in Germany at the Burg-Herzberg-Festival (2005). In the British scene, they have achieved cult status in relevant circles, including through numerous appearances at the Glastonbury Festival, which is known for the great variety of music and lifestyles represented there .

The band also has side projects called Eat Static and Nodens Ictus.

Discography

Audio cassettes

  • Tantric Obstacles (1985)
  • Erpsongs (1985)
  • There Is Nothing (1986)
  • Live Ethereal Cereal (1986)
  • Sliding Gliding Worlds (1988)
  • The Bits Between the Bits (1989)

Albums

  • Pungent Effulgent (1989)
  • Erpland (1990)
  • Sploosh / Live Throbbe EP (1991)
  • Strangeitude (1991)
  • Live Underslunky (1992)
  • Afterswish (1992)
  • Jurassic Shift (1993)
  • Arborescence (1994)
  • Vitamin Enhanced (1994) - CD box set of the first six cassettes
  • Become The Other (1995)
  • Curious Corn (1997)
  • Spice Doubt (1998)
  • Waterfall Cities (1999)
  • Floating Seeds (1999)
  • The Hidden Step (2000)
  • Pyramidion (2000)
  • Tantric Obstacles - Erpsongs re-release (2000)
  • Swirly Termination (2002)
  • Live at The Pongmasters Ball (2002) - live DVD
  • Eternal Wheel (The Best Of)
  • Spirals in Hyperspace (2004)
  • The Floor's Too Far Away (2006)
  • Sunrise Festival (2008) - live CD & DVD
  • The Yumyum Tree (2009)
  • Paper Monkeys (2011)
  • Technicians of the Sacred (2015)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Some band background and history , highergroundmusic.com September 2015