Dream Machine is a machine that produces flickering light that makes you see

colourful patterns and visions when you gaze upon it long enough through closed eyelids.

 

Dream Machine is also a British instrumental space rock band formed mostly by

ex-Ozric Tentacles members, latest additions being Seaweed and Champignon.

Some of the fellows are from other free festival bands like Thunderdogs.

This is the band’s first album and it came to existence almost by accident when

the band jammed live in the studio to see what happens.

They planned to just use the result when planning to write some actual tracks.

The experiment was so successful, that they decided to just do some overdubbing and

release the recordings as a CD.

I’m glad they did, since this is real ear candy for all the space heads!

 

There are three long tracks on the album. “Invisible Maze” is a relaxed Steve Hillage inspired track

with delay guitar and it’s a great opener!

“Macchina Dread” is a rhythmical but also pretty slow dub jam, where we also get to hear

some great wind instruments by our friend Champignon.

The CD is ended with “Trilogia Dei Sogni” that is divided into three parts.

This one also has some a bit faster stuff, but is still quite laid back, as well.

There is some groovy playing, excellent solos and nice, spacey synthesizer stuff in there,

and I’m sure this CD will go down very well especially with the friends of the old Ozric's.

It has quite a lot of jazz influences. The music can produce some mellow visions just like

the machine it was named after.

All the tracks seem to be more or less improvisation-based, which is a good thing in my books

when everything works, like it does here.

There’s just a bit of fluctuation in the playing from time to time, but it doesn’t bother me at all.

The main point here is the mood that the album creates, and that is a very relaxed and pleasant one.

This is very suitable for chill out music or for a soundtrack to an imaginary sci-fi movie.

Great cover. Get it!

 

 

22.11.05 by Dj Astro

Review from Psychotropic Zone