You Are in Orbit! Space-Rock Appreciation Thread!

🔥 Blast off with current space-rock band Naxatras from Athens, Greece! 🌌🇬🇷 Dive into the celestial vibes of Naxatras' 2022 live version of their instrumental track "The Great Attractor" and let your spirit soar among the stars! 🚀🇬🇷 It's like a Greek odyssey through the cosmos—perfect for stargazers and dreamers alike! 🎶 🛸

 2020: Aries - Because of My Fears - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ-_mRulzvY

ARIES     Ram-bam-ba-lamb! It's written in the stars that Aries are the most exciting thing to happen in Greece since the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, when the Persians defeated the Spartans, winning 2-1 after extra time. You don't need to climb Mount Olympus to meet the prog gods, because the tremendous trio of titans are all right here on this one amazing album. This is Space Rock, Jim, but not as we know it, going boldly where no Space Rock album has ever gone before (split infinitives permitting!). "Because of My Fears"  is light years ahead of any Space Rock album I know of, and where you'd have to travel to the distant galaxy of Andromeda to hear anything even remotely approaching this magnitude of brilliance. Aries shines as brightly as a distant Quasar - the brightest object in the known universe. The album is one long continuous five-part suite of music, so set the controls for the heart of the Sun, power up into interstellar overdrive at max factor five and prepare for a fantastic voyage of a lifetime in the best 43 minutes you've ever spent outside of the bedroom. It's a stellar stunner!  What REALLY sets this fabulous album apart though, is the beautiful siren-song call of the charming female vocalist. After all, when was the last time you ever heard a female lead singer on a Space Rock album? Probably never. The pounding percussive power of the Duracel drummer is worthy of a mention too, sounding like a battering ram with an artillery barrage of sound the like of which we haven't heard since the furious fusillade of cannon fire at the climax of Tchaikovsky's triumphal  1812 Overture. And let's not forget the incredible guitarist either, whose psychedelic, purple-haze freak-outs would make Jimi Hendrix jealous. This stunning Space Rock extravaganza is a sonic blast from beginning to end and one of the most electrifying albums you'll ever hear  this side of the Milky Way galaxy. Ad Astra!

Thanks, Doug, I was not familiar with UFO that early!  Nice!! 

I've been a fan of "space rock" for decades without really understanding its meaning.   I hail from Chicago, which was once called the "space rock capital of the world."  Touring space-rock groups like Hawkwind found a welcoming audience, and we had a very nice homegrown space rock movement with bands like Stratosled. 

My interpretation of space-rock has been that it is highly dependent upon synthesizers, and I often would refer people to albums like "Phaedra" by Tangerine Dream.  However, there is a great variety of music under the banner of space-rock. 

Thoughts, please?  

Thank you! I always tended to gravitate more to synth-driven variations of space rock, particularly from German bands!  

But hold onto your helmets, fellow travellers! 🪐💫 I simply must honourably share a stellar gem from their 1977 live album "Encore." 🚀 🌌 Enter "Coldwater Canyon," a track that transcends time and space with its mesmerising soundscapes. 🛸 The electric guitar solo by Edgar Froese is nothing short of a cosmic odyssey—distorted and drenched in otherworldly vibes, it spirals through dimensions like a comet streaking across the night sky! 🎸🌠

🌌 The interstellar instrumental unleashes the guitar from its earthly confines, sending it soaring into the stratosphere with mind-bending solos that twist and turn like UFOs darting through the night sky. 🛸Meanwhile, the bass, drums, and keys swirl around like planets in orbit 🌎 🛰️ , dancing harmoniously within the gravitational pull of the main riffing framework. 🔺🏜️🌙 🪐💫