PSYCHONAUT

With "Cottonwoodhill" BRAINTICKET entered the premier league of psychedelic music, but with all of its revolutionary and mind-blowing (sometimes literally!) performance it was still an acquired taste...

Then comes the "Psychonaut" - an amazing record of heavy "acid" rock empowered by folk/raga etherial sounds. There are loads of flute, keyboards and hand drums that sometime remind of another excellent band from about the same era - BROESELMASCHINE. "From Another Planet/Radagacuca" opens and draws you right away into a mind-bending world. Heavy sound of Hammond is omnipresent particularly in two heavy tracks "Watching You" and "Like the Place in the Sun", while the closing instrumental "Cock-o-Mary" brings a flute riff sounding like a continuation of "Black Sand" from the previous notable LP. I just recently checked another obscure band from the same period - BABE RUTH - and even here I found some similarities, perhaps because of female lead vocals.

This is excellent album from the classic prog era and I would highly recommend it to all self-respecting prog afficionados. Between 4 and 5 stars, but I am usually a bit leniant toward less popular and largely unknown artists.