HYPNAGOGIA

Pixie Ninja its explosive psyche-post rock; extraordinary avant-garde sound based on electronics and bewitching old keyboards. A fresh, inventive 3rd album that risks leaving more than one on the floor for a fabulous concept.

'Thanatosis' begins symphonic with keyboards and sax; dark electro break before the thundering sax return; bordering on Art Of Zoyd music for an out-of-phase musical delirium. 'Silver Paper Unicorns' surfs on a cold wave base embellished with a Japanese keyboard giving freshness and relaxation. 'Pandæmonium' not that of the Killing Joke although this interlude has everything of a musical space not found on earth, between Art Of Noise and the Devo, its dreamlike electrified. 'Dance Macabre' is an improbable sound between U2 and Simple Minds, angelic voices of mermaids clinging to the reefs; a break worthy of a maelstrom and an end where flies attack pilots in a glass hole, unique, hilarious, not huge! 'Ora Antarctica' creation, birth, a bit of the Sigur Ros of the beginning, a bit of the Mike Oldfield of the... beginnings with his bells; dreamlike and stunning; on a mid-tempo surfing on 'Rencontres du 3e Type', immense. 'Alpha Waves' hypnotic electro dub with a bewitching Mellotron bringing back to the magnificent hours of Tangerine Dream; it evolves on a Jarrian riff then heavy Hawkwindien, it's musical nitro. Dreamlike 'Oneironaut', archaic bass, glockenspiel, bells of 'Birdy', a gripping riff, half heavy, half Asian... half bewitching, on a boosted Pure Reason Revolution then a long final hypnotic trance rise.

Pixie Ninja releases this more ambitious, hovering instrumental OMNI. (5 pts for the singular concept)