Ozric Tentacles - The Floor's Too Far Away (2006)Magna Carta

You are looking at this English band's name and don't know what the thing is, haha?! You can be more surprised realizing that Ozric Tentacles was founded over twenty years ago and is considered a legendary experimental progressive group... of freaks, haha. These eccentrics are distinguished by tentacles attached to their contorted bodies and equally bizarre instrument-like tools they used to play on and piss us off with, haha. Their monstrosities' names are: Ed Wynne (guitar, synths, samps, bass guitar, eastern flavors, drums, brandi, spacelines forest), Brandi Wynne (bass guitar, synths, wildlife, space tendrils, stuff), Matt "Metro" Shmigelsky (drums), Merv Pepler (percussion) and Tom Brooks (bubs, synchroblips).

Their debut album "Erpsongs" was released in the year 1985, and "The Floor's Too Far Away", if I a mright, is the 19th official Ozric Tentacles' CD. Obviously, I didn't count the likes of a disc with remixes, three compilations, four live albums and two the best ofs, haha. The musicians of Ozric Tentacles, thanks to their vivid imagination and sizeable load of creativity, didn't focus only on a mother band, but were also engaged in other projects: Eat Static, Wooden Baby, The Oroonies, Nodens Ictus and The Ullulators.

Upon listening to the tones thought up by the Ozrics, I have had a feeling of staying in the centre of a musical universe. These tones could have derived from the interplanetary paradise. Coming voices invite us on a journey to the open wild nature where tones of animals and plants of every description can change you, Dear Raders, beyond recognition, haha. We are enclosed with exotic trees, rocky land and lots of volcanos in the distance. Our sacred serenity is sometimes disturbed by a few naughty extraterrestrials from a neighbouring planet, however the indigenous inhabitants of this blissful territory are able to quieten the unruly space gang, haha.

This conceptual album of Ozric Tentacles can be only described in such an odd way, haha. We can find here many stylistic elements which have nothing to do with rock and metal, e.g. chillout, a light psychedelic tones, ambient, groove, and even an ethnic music. I think that those orthodox listeners in particular who have the foggiest idea of professional electronica use in music should beware of the Ozrics that can "stroke" them with gentle tentacles, haha. I am very serious, I saw such an individual yesterday who got scared by a snail's antennas, ran away and plunged into the sea with a graceful dive, but, unfortunately he fell victim to octopus' feelers, haha. I am not joking, the musical land of Ozric Tentacles is precisely so as described above: posing a threat to the narrow-minded and wonderful to those who are open-minded to the musical distinctnesses.