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OCTARINE SKY releases its first album with Simon Phillips on drums, Guthrie GOVAN and Amit CHATTERJEE on guitar. OCTARINE SKY is above all a melting pot of prog, jazz, art rock, new age and classical music for the very present piano of Dyanne Potter VOEGTLIN. It is also virtuosity in bars from the drifts of the POTTER'S DAUGHTER born in 2018. A recording of a great performance for its colorful music and virtuoso musicians to send you into a singular musical world. An innovative, intimate, vibrant and creative sound.

"One" starts on the 1st movement of Alberto GINASTERA's Piano Sonata No. 1. Playful air and piano-drums fight between Dyanne and Simon on a classy free-jazz bass. "Rosewind" follows, an ethereal atmosphere full of grace, a tune quickly supported and amplified by Jan's guitar; languorous air, aerial drums then fruity variation, orchestral with choirs reminiscent of the intimate 'Ederlezi' of KUSTURICA or the I AM THE MORNING. "Night Sky/Into the Dream" with its keyboard vibrations coming out of a soundtrack, the piano forward and Guthrie who comes to sow musical doubt bringing the title to a sound worthy of Al Di Meola or Santana; it squirts everywhere, it's fresh, fruity, from inventive pop to bewitching solo, musical tune apart. "The Mask" and its oriental beach surf, jazzy piano with characteristic brush drums; acoustic guitar accompanying the piano and Dyanne's voice; a progressive voice-over à la Floyd then drum roll and it changes tone, Jan's expressive guitar sets the title on fire. It's soft, crystalline, airy, the intimate folk voice leaves at the end on a more rock tone.

"5" changes style and releases a heavy limit title LED ZEPPELIN, within the fusion-jazz-dithyrambic framework; keyboards, sampled choirs, voices of sirens carrying on the rocks or the bewitched plains; strings from Guthrie's guitar show that he can use it in different styles and recall the madness of Jeff BECK; ethereal, hovering, synthetic atmosphere, the guitar twirls and sends the title on uncontrolled musical slopes. "Midnight" strident, gloomy, dark, hard-rock with that frenzied riff; Dyanne distills her soft and repetitive voice with an incisive 'Nevermore' while Guthrie puts sound and fire to the track by offering a strident variation following her on a majestic frenzied solo, one of the most beautiful on the album. "VII" and the return of the piano for what looks like an organized jam on the Julia SCHWARTZ suite; Simon responds pad by pad to crystal-clear piano notes; the subtle guitar parts give timely relief to this basic monolithic title; some notes of dripping fat synths give in controlled improvisation reminding me of the disjointed progressive incursions of the KING CRIMSON 'Red' period and more, tormented. "Hold" with a Yessian sound for Amit's voice and guitar, fresh, lively rhythm; good when we know that Jon ANDERSON himself gave his absolution on it, we are not surprised; aerial final title with high and fleeting keyboards which gives even more musical spleen on what creative music can be.

OCTARINE SKY sounds POTTER'S DAUGHTER but manages to create a new musical concept flirting with many genres, perhaps a little too factual. Fresh, inventive, progressive, jazzy-pop-folk and real world mix. An adventurous avant-garde sound that disrupts filing drawers; an album borderline zeuhl, chamber music, unstructured free-jazz, in the lands of an ART ZOYD giving music a new musical dimension; a unique album that brightens up the ears.