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Øresund Space Collective to Release New Studio Album Different Creatures

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Like the best space rock in this universe, it’s damn near impossible to keep up with Øresund Space Collective. Between their amorphous lineup of players coming and going, constantly updated catalog of bootleg live recordings on archive.org, extended live albums, fest appearances, guest spots, etc., you’d pretty much have to be in the band to be able to have an handle on all of it, and even then it seems like that handle would be tenuous at best. That, of course, is the whole idea. I very much dug last year’s Music for Pogonologists 2CD full-length, and just as I’ve started to dig into a new three-disc (!) live album, issued just a couple weeks back and suitably titled Out into Space, along comes a new studio full-length, Different Creatures, set to release next month. It is a staggering, overwhelming amount of music, and when you get down to the fact that most of what Øresund Space Collective does is improvised on the spot, their output seems even more encompassing. They’ve got jams for light-years.

Info on the new one follows, as sent along the PR wire:

oresund space collective different creatures

Øresund Space Collective- Different Creatures

Space Rock Productions SRP030

Release date: Nov 2015
Triple Gatefold Vinyl
200 on black vinyl
300 on coloured vinyl
1000 2CD in a 4 panel digipack with 24 panel fold out poster

The Øresund Space Collective is a super group made up of members from various Scandinavian rock groups. These include the Carpet Knights (SE), Mantric Muse (DK), Bland Bladen (SE), Gas Giant (DK), Hooffoot (SE), First band from Outer Space (SE), Siena Root (SE), My Brother the Wind (SE), The Univerzals (DK) and others. The band has played numerous festivals around Europe including the Roskilde Festival (2015), Copenhagen Jazz Festival (2010), Kildemose Festival, Roadburn Festival (Holland 2010), Space Rock Odyssey (Sweden 2008), Slotsskogen goes Progressive (Sweden 2008), Space Force 1 (Finland 2009), Psychedelic Network (Germany 2009, 2013), Occultrance Festival (2011) in Belgium and Burg Herzberg, DE (2014). By 2015, the band had played about 90 concerts in 10 different countries! The band first started releasing music in 2006 on the Transubstans Label in Sweden and has over the first 5 years released many albums on several different labels.

This marks the 20th Øresund Space Collective release. The music presented on the deluxe 3LP gatefold or double CD was recorded by a very special group of musicians from Sweden and Norway (plus Dr SpaceDenmark) at the Black Tornado studio in Copenhagen. The members are from a wide variety of bands including Tangle Edge, Agusa, Camper Van Beethoven, My brother the Wind, Gösta Berlings Saga and Ex-Siena Root. The mixture of pedal steel, sitar, violin, mandolin, and theremin, presents a new and exciting sound and energy ranging from high energy space rock like Ride to Valhalla to very laid back country space blues with Jam for Jerry G and Indian space trance of the Digestive Raga. We created an unknown tribute to the Welsh band, Man, on the track, Man from Wales. There were some interesting sound experiments included as well to bridge the sides. Finally, the massive 45min, 20 steps towards the invisible Door.. Wow.. what a piece of music..

Enjoy….

Recorded at the Black Tornado Studio, Copenhagen Oct 2014. Engineer Lars Lundholm. Mixed by Jonathan Segel with spiritual guidance from Hasse. Artwork by Mårdøn Smet. CD and LP Layouts by David Graham. Photos by Sabine Pottien.

LP1 (CD1)
Side A
Ride to Valhalla 19:37.65
Juggle 3:49.05

Side B
Digestive Raga 20:55.33
Extended version on CD only (30:03)

LP2
Side C (CD1)
Man from Wales 13:23.36
Bon Voyage 6:11.33

Side D (CD2)
Raga for Jerry 20:16.13

LP3 (CD2)

Side E
20 Steps Towards the Invisible Door Part 1 25:18.11

Side F
20 Steps Towards the Invisible Door Part 2 20:01.05
(track is combined into one 45:19 min track on the CD)

The band on this release was the following:
(in alphabetical order)
Alex – Drums and Percussion
Dr Space – Analog Synthesizers
Hasse – Bass, DounDouns
Jonas – Hammond, Synthesizer, Electric Piano, Guitar*
Jonathan – Guitar, Violin, Theremin, Hammond*, Electric Mandolin
KG – Sitar and Analog Synths
Mattias – Guitar, Pedal Steel, Shaker
Mats – Guitar, Bass**

*on The Man From Wales
**on Juggle the Juice, Digestive Raga, Bon Voyage

http://www.oresundspacecollective.com
http://oresundspacecollective.bandcamp.com
http://www.sapphirerecords.de

Øresund Space Collective, Out into Space (2015)

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One Response to “Øresund Space Collective to Release New Studio Album Different Creatures

  1. scott says:

    Thanks so much.. People are checking us out, so that is a good thing. Peace..

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