Lucid Dream
Lucid Dream
表演者: Alien Dream
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: CD/CD-R
发行时间: 2005
唱片数: 1
出版者: Michael W Blackman
专辑简介
On first hearing of this brand new studio album, the reaction I had was a complete
surprise - for it was one of shock! Which is actually a good thing in this context because it proved to me that this guy really is a budding musical genius. Previous albums have followed a trail whereby a mix of Ozrics & Grateful Dead on the early couple of albums, moved into a mix of Ozrics, Hillage & Gong for the next couple and then finally finding a mutant hybrid of instrumental psychedelic space-rock that would take the last two albums into a spiraling, soaring and wondrously played and constructed league of their own. But the common theme was one of melodic clarity, rhythmic strength and quite gorgeous depths. Music in which you swam quite happily. This one is different. You could drown in this one! For Mr Blackman has produced an instrumental psychedelic album that's taken space-rock into a wholly new symphonic dimension, and the key word is intensity.The moment you put this on your player, the thing that strikes you - almost literally - is the immense wall of sound that erupts from the speakers. It's still got structure, melody, rhythmic cohesion and more, but the depth and sheer density, is almost suffocating. But, you get over the first
forays into this new world, move onto 'Dream Voyager' and find four minutes of music that, while similarly intense, expands into a whole new horizon as the guitar just goes supernova and the endless layers of bass, drums, synths, space synths and more
guitars provide the awesome accompaniment that makes it climb to new peaks of musical ecstasy. The next track, 'Reaching For The Sun', starts off in slightly more relaxed mode but then gradually builds on layers of rhythms, waves of guitars and tons of absolutely classic vintage '73-era Hawkwind-esque space synth swoops to provide a track that will have you jaw-dropped in amazement as the intensity becomes greater, the sound becomes stronger and the whole thing becomes a smoking sonic cauldron of nuclear proportions, and even better is that this segues right into 'Departing The Spiral Galaxy', a title that pretty well sums up what your head is doing at this point as the intensity increases, the music rises to greater heights, what feels like an endless universe of guitars, synths, space synths, bass, drums scythes through the airwaves and almost implodes but avoids this by dropping down
to a magical calm - if calm is the word - where the synths soar and dive, wah wah guitar flies out, the rhythms become choppier and the whole huge soundscape is a phased, psychedelic slice of heaven that makes Pink Floyd's 'Interstellar Overdrive' sound like Bucks Fizz in comparison, as this monumental epic continues - and you realize that you're already two and a half minutes into the next track and you've not noticed. This is sensational stuff - the likes of which no-one's dared done before - in many ways this is what Acid Mothers promised but never delivered and it beats that band hollow. By the time 'This Is Paradise' fades around the eight minute point, you're ready for a more chilled-out slice of psychedelic space-rock and that's exactly what you get as this incredible track, 'The Navigator's Trance', comes into being, a slow but muscular rhythm base driving a sea of synths and a galaxy of space synth swoops as the lush keyboard melody provides the heart and the searing but languid guitar lead, the head, before the whole thing suddenly changes and dives headlong into a supercharged sea of awesome electric slide guitar and strident, solid rhythms, again the whole sound having such a density that you think it goes on forever, as the immense musical mountain moves inexorably onwards. At this point, you're only half way through the tracks, and already it's been a
mind-bending ride of excellent, enjoyable and positively awe-inspiring proportions. What follows is every bit as good, trust me.
曲目
1. The First Dawn Of Eternity
2. Dream Voyager
3. Reaching For The Sun
4. Departing The Spiral Galaxy
5. This Is Paradise
6. The Navigators Trance
7. Our Future Is Now
8. Even Nowhere Is Somewhere
9. When Yin Met Yang
10. A Universe To Explore
11. Lucid Dreaming
12. The Wizards Spell
13. Dreams Of Layla T.