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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.
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A stellar wind and electronic shimmers conjure up the cosmos but then a vocal sample makes us think much more of the space within, as if ones consciousness is slowly being awoken. The first sequence can be heard and this is added to by another. We are now far from sleep rather hurtling at full speed. A rhythm is chucked into the steaming brew with soft synth pads fleshing out the sound. As if we weren’t close to overload already another heavier rhythm is added. A case of more is more? Good exciting bombastic stuff.
The second track is somewhat more subtle than the opener but even better. A slow sequential motif provides the framework for lovely effects to caress the mind. More sounds are added, each like a shining star, startling in beauty but with awesome power. Unlike the first number however the effect is much more of calm than speed. The foot certainly starts tapping when the main rhythm is added just before the half way mark, but really it is the sounds he uses that are the main focus. You can hardly call them lead lines because they never last for long before departing and another taking its place.
On to track number three, a real little gem. I know I keep going on about sounds but really the warbling sequence used here is like nothing I have ever heard before and it got my whole body bopping to it. The accompanying lead lines compliment it superbly. Awesome, absolutely bloody awesome! Surely it can’t get any better than this. On to track four and back to deep space. The sequence and initial gentle lead motif are subtlety personified. Piano melodies and bell like percussion are added to by an acoustic guitar sound giving the fifth track a very un-electronic feel but it is, as are all the pieces here, a delight. The next number is the longest at eighteen minutes. After a calm start the track develops into a fairly conventional sequencer / rhythm romp but by the eleven minute mark we are starting to get more of those unique sounds though the sequence shifts in a very Tangerine Dreamish sort of way. The melodies are always top notch and this is a very fine piece but somehow sounds a bit ‘normal’ compared to the inventiveness that has gone before. The title track finishes the album off back deep in the cosmos, all shimmers and effects making one think of outer space.
This is an album that will be enjoyed by people that like their Electronic Music 70’s influenced but at the same time sounding 90s without having to resort to dance rhythms. (DL)
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February 23 2009 05:26 pm | Ambient Music