Artist: Ozric Tentacles
Genre(s):
Alternative
ROck: Alternative
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Spirals in Hyperspace
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
Eternal Wheel (CD2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
Eternal Wheel (CD1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Swirly Termination
Year: 2000
Tracks: 7
Become The Other
Year: 1995
Tracks: 8
Tantric Obstacles
Year: 1994
Tracks: 15
Arborescence
Year: 1994
Tracks: 8
Afterswish 1984 - 91 (CD 2)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 12
Afterswish 1984 - 91 (CD 1)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 13
Strangeitude
Year: 1991
Tracks: 8
Erpland
Year: 1990
Tracks: 12
A band from another fourth dimension, Ozric Tentacles served as the bridgework from '70s cosmic sway to the constitutional dance and festival refinement which came secondment into fashion during the '90s. Formed in 1983 with a debt to jazz coalition as well as infinite rock, the band in the beginning included guitarist Ed Wynne, drummer Nick Van Gelder, keyboard player Joie Hinton, bassist Roly Wynne and second understructure guitarist Gavin Griffiths (though Griffiths left in 1984). The Ozrics played in clubs or so London, meanwhile evacuant six-spot cassette-only albums commencement with 1984's Erpsongs. (All six-spot were later gathered on the Vitamin Enhanced box determine, despite a threatened cause from the Kellogg's cereal ship's caller for questionable art.) In 1987, Merv Pepler replaced Van Gelder, and synthesizer player Steve Everett was as well added.
Ozric Tentacles' first major freeing, the 1990 album Erpland, foreshadowed the ill-humored move, a British parallel to America's hippie move of the '60s. Crusties borrowed the hippies' organic dress plus the cosmic mentation of new agers, and played out most of their time travelling around England to diverse festivals and outside gatherings. The apparent motion fit out in perfectly with bands like Ozric Tentacles and the Levellers, and the Ozrics' 1991 album Strangeitude became their biggest vender as yet, occasioning a U.S. contract with Capitol. After the British-only Afterswish and Live Underslunky, 1993's Jurassic Shift hit number 11 on the British charts -- quite an a exploit for a self-generated album released on the Ozrics' possess Dovetail judge. The album was released in America by I.R.S. Records, as was 1994's Arborescence. Neither album translated well with American audiences -- contempt the band's first U.S. tour in 1994 -- and Ozric Tentacles returned to its Dovetail judge for 1995's Get the Other. Waterfall Cities closed taboo the decade in 1999, and the following summer the group resurfaced with Swirly Termination. Hinton and Pepler as well do in the trance-techno outfit Eat Static, and hold released various albums on Planet Dog Records. Ozric Tentacles surfaced in 2000 to acquittance Hidden Step, followed by the EP Pyramidion. In 2002, Live at the Pongmasters Ball came out on both CD and DVD, making it their first speculation into the latter.
