Floor's Too Far Away

Ozric Tentacles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Magna Carta
• ASIN: B000G1R4HA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,432 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bolshem

2. Armchair Journey

3. Jellylips

4. Vedavox

5. Spacebase

6. Disdots

7. Etherclock

8. Splat!

9. Ping

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Although Ozric Tentacles is the bridge between 1970s space rock and 1990s techno, they've never quite crossed that bridge themselves. They remain suspended in an approach that sounds like it could've come straight out of the recording sessions for Gong's You and Steve Hillage's Fish Rising albums from the mid 1970s, a decade before they were formed. With Ozric, you strap yourself in and hold tight as the band careens through sequencer patterns spinning like rotor blades, slicing up the real fusion drum grooves that remain the engine of their sound. As kinetic as techno, but full of syncopated rhythms that shift through complicated time signatures, Ozric layer synthesizer swirls, deep-throb bass lines, and serrated guitar forays from founding and only original member Ed Wynne. In fact, Wynne plays a lot of the instruments and programs the entire album. With the departure of flutist Champignon, part of the sonic palette is missing, but Wynne and his wife, keyboardist Brandi, make up for it in electronic colors. Much of Ozric's music is about morphing forms, as stuttering voices evolve into a gurgling lead synth line that's chased by a guitar that morphs into an explosion. The Floor's Too Far Away breaks no new ground for the psychedelic travelers, but it is more tightly arranged and a cogent distillation of a sound that's been fermenting for 23 years. The tea is definitively steeped. Have a cuppa. --John Diliberto

Product Description

Ed Wynne has solved the mystery of time travel. As the keyboardist/guitarist/chief programmer/creative mastermind of the band Ozric Tentacles, Wynne traverses the ages through his primordial yet distinctly modern, mind-bending music. The Somerset, England, resident is a citizen of the world: his art knows no boundaries in time or space.

"Recently we have been playing the four corners of the world and it seems the audiences like the combination of techno rock, strange rhythmic grooves, stomping bass line, and the quasi ancient and ethnic music," Wynne says.

Wynne jokingly refers to OT’s music as "ethnological forgery", but Ozrics’ new Magna Carta release, "The Floor’s Too Far Away", is far from bogus. Recorded in Wynne’s home studio in Somerset, England, the nine-track, all-instrumental CD is a musical reflection of Wynne’s centrifugal creative vision – a vision synthesized into a spiraled, multifaceted tapestry of butt-moving, trance-inducing ethno-techno space rock. "I’ve always been interested in Eastern music." Wynne says. "But none of the scales I use are official, traditional Eastern scales. They are just snippets of what I have picked up over the years from traveling to different places and keeping my ears open."

In many ways "The Floor’s Too Far Away" is a signature Ozrics record. Rife with incessant intergalactic grooves, the new record offers a satisfying, near state-altering listening experience. "We took a bit more time in coming up with the proper track listing for this," admits Wynne.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A very disappointing album, December 6, 2011

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Ikuru - See all my reviews

This review is from: Floor's Too Far Away (Audio CD)

The Ozric Tentacles used to be one of the best space rock, psychedelic music around. However, this album is down there with the awful Yum Yum tree and newer, but equally terrible Paper Monkeys albums. All equally terrible. What ever happened to quality albums like the Hidden step?

I agree with the Brandi comments, since she joined the band is when you can trace their downfall. She is the worst most untalented band member EVER and clearly only got into the band because she married the guitarist. If you dont have the talent...

Its all very disappointing to see what were one of the best bands resort to worse than medicority. Shame!!!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible album, listen to their older better stuff, December 6, 2011

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Myriapod (Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Floor's Too Far Away (Audio CD)

The Ozric Tentacles used to be one of the best space rock, psychedelic music around. However, this album is down there with the awful Yum Yum tree and Paper Monkeys albums. All equally terrible. What ever happened to quality albums like the Hidden step?

I agree with the Brandi comments, since she joined the band is when you can trace their downfall. She is the worst most untalented band member EVER and clearly only got into the band because she married the guitarist. If you dont have the talent...

Its all very disappointing to see what were one of the best bands resort to worse than medicority. Shame!!!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Why did they call this an Ozric release?, July 30, 2006

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EtherealCereal (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Floor's Too Far Away (MP3 Download)

No Joie, no Jumping John, no Zia, no Rad, no Schoo, no Seaweed, no bass on most of the songs (unless you count synth bass as bass), more like half a Nodens Ictus project. When Ozrics were in their prime back in the eighties and nineties, they would perform mind-bending psychedelic excursions with incredibly clever song titles. On this CD, the song titles are just ridiculous. Avoid. Get everything else first.