Electronic Music New Releases
Electronic Music New Releases
Based in Somerset,UK, OHead gently caress the ears with lush ambient psychedelia designed to float you away on a magic carpet ride to otherworldly dimensions. Sit back and enjoy your trip through the colourfull world of ohead.
Read on for what the world thinks of OHead’s recent electronic music release "Gaia’s Garden…..
Fans of pschedelic and ambient music are in for an absolute treat with this simply brilliant and quite stunning release from Ohead.
The man behind the band/music is Dave Hendry and the multi-instrumentalist already has a plethora of work to his name but I doubt if he has previously produced anything as devastatingly good as this.
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Guitar and keyboards combine fluidly with drums and bass to produce an instrumental landscape of sound that is dreamy, ethereal and atmospheric. A tad of space rock for sure but think of the mighty Ozrics and early Porcupine Tree given full reign to experiment in rhythms and sound effects and you’ll have some idea of what is happening here.
Hendry has been very clever as he uses several guests to devastating effect on several of the tracks. The genre of psychedelic/ambient rock simply doesn’t get any better than this.
T.C The Classic Rock Society magazine Aug/Sept 2008
Possibly the best psychedelic-ambient album of the year… ‘Ohead’ is purely the work of ‘Dave Hendry’, who has a colourful and extensive musical history, as a composer,producer and musician.
This unique masterpiece is dynamic, atmospheric and saturated with feel-good factor… interwoven with keyboards… guitar and polished to perfection!
Garry Lee,Starship overflow River Gibbs Radio
David Hendry from the UK is a very busy fellow who has released different kinds of electronic music under various monikers. OHead is one of his projects that has prior to this new CD released two great, cosmic and psychedelic ambient albums. I reviewed Steps Across the Cortex, the latter of these, last year.
On Gaia’s Garden David plays synthesizers, bass, guitars and sings as well as does the programming. Rachel Hutchinson (saxophone), Will Greenwood (lead and glissando guitar) and Gaz (lead guitar) are also featured as guests on one track each. Gaia’s Garden is a very well produced, psychedelic and mostly electronic ambient album that has a bit organic feel too because of the guitars and bird song. The music is pretty original, although it evokes similar feelings than early/mid 90’s Astralasia, Banco de Gaia etc. Excellent music!
DJ Astro,Psychotropic Zone 2008
From Aural Innovations 40 (September 2008)
Ohead is the one-man space band of David Hendry. Hendry has extensive experience in the electronic music scene in genres such as trance, ambient and drum n’ bass.
And while his Ohead project draws on some of those influences, Hendry infuses it with so much more, adding guitars and bass to the electronics for a fusion of sound reminiscent of Ozric Tentacles in many ways, but different as well.
Hendry has a polished sheen to his production, the non-electronic instruments having gently rounded edges, melding into the mix with the electronics for a smoother and less raunchy sound than you often hear with the Ozrics. It’s mostly instrumental music, except for the occasionally freaky voice sample, and of course the mysterious and edgy track Timeless Sun, which features spacey, processed singing from Hendry himself, multi-talented guy that he is.
Ohead hearkens back to the electronica and festival sounds of the 90’s while pushing forward and exploring new territory for the future. Lush, rhythmic and spaced out, this is music for the head. The O-head, that is.
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