LIVE IN DRESDEN

ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE is this Danish and Swedish musical collective that has been playing space rock in total submersive improvisation since 2004. A liability of 29 albums (33 counted elsewhere) therefore referenced at a minimum, often recorded live and a 10th live declared. ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE known by chance with their eponymous first track from 2006, a disconcerting album concocted by Scott Heller? Dr Space, which takes the name of the bridge linking Denmark to Sweden. A group expanding with a good thirty different musicians, including guitars and synths at the forefront. A group that is therefore in hypnotic, invasive and 'mantranic' trance, an extraordinary psychedelic, spatial, jazzy-krautrock, colorful and well-barrelled group, adept at jam- sessions as in the remote times of certain dinosaur groups.

4 tracks here including "Cosmic Balls Fall" on reverberating guitars and analog keyboards; a sound that puts you in the mood immediately and that does not stop because yes that is the magic of CSOs is that when you are installed, the current flows without interruption. "Cosmic Balls Fall Pt 2" continues with a life-saving musical rest; on notes from the film 'Rencontres du 3e Type', on a DEEP PURPLE solo, on a spaghetti western; of course it is my personal memories that dictate my strike here, in truth the OSC sound gives each of you the unique opportunity to go into an intimate personal psychedelic universe. He pulls more tweaks out of Scott's Pandora's box, the guitars seem to settle down and find a cruising rhythm; the end is softer like a space moment where we have to re-berth the ship. Dr Space cites the musicians present at this evening in reverberation too. "The Barking Lady of Ostepol" occurs, TANGERINE DREAM of yesteryear scratches my ear, the ship is forced to maneuver to return to Aldebaran; that's it the air suddenly comes out, heavy, here we go again; one of the easiest tracks to listen to due to its heavy, hypnotic atmosphere; sudden South American final, but what did I eat last night? "Dripping Brains" is already there, electro forward, Dr Gadget for a while, short hilarious psyche in a good way; I remember again the evocative sound of DEEP PURPLE during their instrumental madness. Good live album or not, gimmick or mantra cannot be described, it is lived... so you had 3/4 hours of my life there in the end. Some will say ah it's often the same thing, but... is your life the same all the time?

ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE makes a compendium of evolving psych rock where crescendos, adrenaline rushes and musical cold sweats are in order; an album that you have to hang on to from the start for fear of not finding the right car and staying on the ground; Dr Space with his Pandora's box vibrates the improvised riffs, the brilliant solos, he increases the bass lines, the sound effects by fiddling with his little magic buttons; he raises the tone, the sound to explode the notes, to transcend them into a divine maelstrom; the music collides, merges to create the ultimate musical melting pot, the one from which nothing emerges; you are bewitched, you wonder how it can still exist in our time; the dynamic remains clear, obvious, progressive until these organoleptic rises where twists, vibrations and sound swirls merge in a final libation. ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE is all that!