Samaire Wynne

One of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK’s festival scene, the Ozrics layer ambient and ethereal landscapes with freeform dub trips, incredible rave grooves and psychedelic progressive rock. It’s an open exploration of music and the soul.

One of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK’s festival scene, the Ozrics layer ambient and ethereal landscapes with freeform dub trips, incredible rave grooves and psychedelic progressive rock. It’s an open exploration of music and the soul.

As of mid-2018, the Ozrics are on hiatus, and the fate of the band is uncertain. Bandleader and chief composer Ed Wynne returned to England to record a studio album, and Ozric tour dates have ceased. Beyond that, not much else is known. Outside of a core group of listeners, usually decades-long fans, the comings and goings of this instrumental group have never been much of a buzz generator - even at the band's inception 35 years ago, Ozric Tentacles were something of an anachronism. Unwaveringly championing elements of Gong, Hawkwind, Mahavishnu Orchestra, mixed in with splashes and textures of reggae, electronica, and psytrance, it is no surprise that many of the group's fans are older than the band members themselves…

Pungent Effulgent, the Ozric’s first ‘official’ album in 1989, after self-releasing material on cassettes, is the first produced to label standards and retains their explorative style based on improvisations whilst performing live.

One of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK’s festival scene, the Ozrics layer ambient and ethereal landscapes with freeform dub trips, incredible rave grooves and psychedelic progressive rock. It’s an open exploration of music and the soul.

The Ozric's Strangeitude was released in 1991 and featured the band’s first single, Sploosh! (a #1 in the UK independent chart).

BBC - In It to Wynne It (2016)
WEBRip | 1280x720 | .MKV/AVC @ 2395 Kbps | 28mn 51s | 494 MiB
Audio: English AAC 128 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: None
Genre: Documentary

Presenter and singer Wynne Evans is always up for a fresh challenge. In this programme he learns how to be part of a synchronised swimming team. He joins in with the Swansea Synchro team to learn a special Bollywood-inspired routine. Along the way Wynne receives specialist training and advice from Olympic swimmer David Davies and Welsh award-winning gymnast Frankie Jones. Will Wynne take to the water in style? Will he sink or swim? One thing's for certain, he's sure to make a splash.