Ozric

Iconic British band Ozric Tentacles have announced ‘Travelling The Great Circle’, an expansive new hardback book release, featuring remastered music from one of the bands most creatively thrilling and acclaimed periods.

Lotus Unfolding is the new release from UK based instrumental intergalactic travellers Ozric Tentacles. Six new tunes have been added to the Ozric universe, conceived, written and recorded in their own ‘Blue Bubble’ studio in Fife. The album was recorded, written and produced during 2022 – 2023 by Ed Wynne with a little sonic help from Silas. Mastered by Adam Goodlet and illustrated with some nicely detailed ethereal artwork by Steve McKeown and Sally Clark.

Vitamin Enhanced is a 6-disc box set by English psychedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles. It compiles the band's six first recordings, originally released in the 1980s. The first six albums were originally released on cassette, handmade by the band, and only sold at festivals and concerts. In 1993, the albums were transferred to CD, and the compiling box set was first released in November 1994 through the band's independent record label, Dovetail Records. The original pressing was limited to 5,000 copies.

One of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK’s festival scene, Ozric Tentacles formed during the solstice at Stonehenge Free Festival 1983 going on to become psychedelic staples at Glastonbury and other festivals. The creative vision of multi-instrumentalist Ed Wynne, the Ozrics’ uniquely trippy soundscapes connect fans of progressive rock, psychedelia and dance music culture. Space For The Earth represents the next harmonic step in the unfolding Ozric journey.

Ozric Tentacles are simply put, legends of the UK underground. Inspired by a myriad of musical genres and musicians from Kraut-rockers Kraan to guitar maestro Steve VAI, from ethnic Arabic to electronic techno, from Hendrix to Hillage. Ozric Tentacles' music is a fusion of sounds, styles and genres that cannot be categorized nor plagiarized, such is its complexity. The essence of the Ozric Tentacles remains essentially a free-willed musical unit oblivious to fashion trends and intent on exploring instrumental experimental music with an obsessive zeal. Formed in the early eighties, the Ozrics began life as a free-form psychedelic vehicle for jamming, attracting a dedicated fan-base at grassroots level by playing at all the free festivals to fans of space-rock, dub, psychedelia, and later on when the festivals had developed into raves, to fans of house and techno…

Collecting material from 1990 through till 2002, this disc probably won't get Ozric hardcorers excited but it will connect some mild enthusiasts with material they may have otherwise missed out on if Erpland is the only thing they know.

Trees Of Eternity (1994-2000) is the new 7 remastered Discs, 72-page Hardback Book containing 6 studio albums and the never-before-released Live at Fillmore, 1998. Beginning with Arborescence, which hit number 18 in the UK albums chart, we set off on a journey through the Ozrics' impressive catalogue. The band had gone through some line up changes during this period, leading to an exciting new chapter in their story. Become the Other, Curious Corn, Spice Doubt, Waterfall Cities and The Hidden Step showcase the band at their most inventive, with new ideas aplenty, all found here remastered by band leader Ed Wynne. However, the true standout of the set is the inclusion of the legendary Fillmore, San Francisco show of 1998, also mastered by Ed Wynne and remixed specially for this set…

DVD bonus features: exclusive documentary & interview with the band, individual track selection, stereo & 5.1 audio…

These are two prime examples of the prog-hippie band's best work, which combine a delicate yet wonderful sense of the absurd, the cosmic, and the wildly visionary and musical. This band could smoke the Grateful Dead while sleeping and still do so with more soul. Forget Phil & Friends; these cats are the real deal when it comes to jamming into the unknown. Rhythmically, Ozric Tentacles pull out all the stops in the live setting, and on the studio album their love affair with dance beats and production are evident as well. Still, nowhere do they come off sterile, tired, pretentious, or without a healthy and irreverent sense of absurdity and self-effacement. This is the band that would have been at home opening for Frank Zappa. Highly recommended as either a taste or a meal, this music is an LSDelight.