JURASSIC SHIFT

Jurassic Shift IMO is the Ozrics best album amongst a few serious contenders. OT's ideas, execution and sound gracefully come together perfectly on this album. Perhaps most importantly there is a cohesive feel throughout the entire track listing. This is probably their warmest sounding collection. Atmosphere and ambience has always been OT's forte and it is achieved with virtuosic playing without endless noodling and soloing which is the downfall of most modern prog. While lots of prog bands use an ethnic mode in a more western structure, OT uses them evoke a feeling of actually being there or somewhere exotic. Like a rainforest, Chinese mountains, Thai countryside, Jamaican beach or sometimes combined taking the listener somewhere new. Some of the band members actually travel to different parts of the world to get a true influence and the right sounds as well. Ed's spacey guitar, John's ethereal flutes, Joie's bubbling and ethnic synth's, Roly an Zia's grounding and sometimes melodic bass, Merv's tight drums and Marcus's ethnic percussion serve up the greatest Space prog album that's ever hit my ears. Headphone use strongly recommended.

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