I believe this album from OSC is a vinyl only release. However, I was given a CDr of the music from which to write my review. As always from this group, we’re given a slab of improvised space rock. In a lot of ways, though, these jams wander into different territory than a lot of their other discs. Hawkwind is seldom a reference here, even though that band really defines space rock in the minds of many. At points this moves towards fusion. At other times you will likely hear early Pink Floyd. Other parts of the disc call to mind The Allman Brothers. All in all, though, this is a highly enjoyable set of space rock jams.

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While Hawkwind is always an easy reference when discussing the music of Øresund Space Collective, this builds up gradually in something that’s closer to a mix of early Pink Floyd and Nektar. As it continues, the space rock explosion is preserved, but it seems to wander close to fusion at times. Then around the seven minute mark it drops down to a mellower motif. The cut grows out from there moving through a number of changes and alterations. As all good space music, though, nothing happens quickly, rather the music transforms in a steady, but almost unnoticed way. It’s kind of like clouds changing shape as they float through the sky. You don’t really notice the change as it happens, but then find yourself in completely different musical territory. There’s some killer instrumental interplay later in the tune. This is a stomping hot space rock jam. Around the seventeen and a half minute mark it tears out into a screaming guitar solo section that calls to mind Jimi Hendrix and others. It turns out to more atmospheric jamming from there. Later a bouncing sort of interplay ensues to take the cut out. At almost twenty two and a half minutes in length, this is an epic length piece and the longest track on show.