Sunrise Festival

Ozric Tentacles | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 27, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Snapper UK
• ASIN: B00166QJLQ
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,693 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!!, June 15, 2008

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Paul Mccoy (Clute, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sunrise Festival (Audio CD)

This is one of the best live recordings of Ozric Tentacles I've heard, and I have heard many. This CD also has three of my favorites: Jurassic Shift, Eternal Wheel, and Tidal Convergence. The song list that Amazon.com provides doesn't include Tidal Convergence, but it's on there. However, the CD does not have The Throbbe.

This CD also comes with a DVD of the same show, which includes all of the songs including The Throbbe. It is great to see Joie and Merv again, and Brandi Wynne does an outstanding job of filling Zia's shoes. This particular show is a bit more loose than other shows that the Ozrics have performed, and on the DVD they all seem somewhat frantic on stage. It must have been a hectic gig.

However, I'm very happy with this product, and it's available at a great price as well. This is one of my favorite Ozric CDs.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting show but DVD is odd, June 21, 2008

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M. Barrows - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sunrise Festival (Audio CD)

I wasn't blown away by this particular performance (prefer Pongmaster DVD over this one) but I had an odd experience with the DVD and wanted to pass it along. My copy makes the worst racket when it is spinning in the player. Actually loud enough to distract from music unless you have it cranked up. I tried it in all 3 of my players with the same result, so I'm not sure why that is. I've never run into this before. If anyone else runs into the same issue, I'd love to know about it. I knocked a star off for that alone and another for just a mediocre performance (IMO).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Nice Addition To The Ozric's Live Releases, February 2, 2009

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Edw "Edw" (CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sunrise Festival (MP3 Download)

The Sunrise Festival is a worthy addition to the Ozric Tentacles live releases. It features original keyboardist Joie Hinton, and drummer Merv Pepler, who rejoined the band for a brief stretch in 2007. At first glance, the setlist may look somewhat standard, containing a number of songs found on prior live releases (likely due to the re-inclusion of Hinton and Pepler). However, after cuing it up, I was pleased to discover that both the audio quality was great and the performance was quite strong as well. Although some songs do not feature extended jamming, they are played extremely well- everyone sounding very confident, and many of the older songs yield interesting fruit in hearing the different keyboard sounds Joie and Ed are now using since some of these songs were documented on Live Underslunky in 1992. The Sunrise Jam is also great to hear the band jamming a bit. My only real wish would be for the show to be a little longer. Hearing the Ozrics live is a complete- in depth experience, and this 70 min disc sounds great, but leaves the listener wishing there were a couple more songs/spaces to complete the trip. All in all however, it is simply a great treat to hear the band still making music with three of its original core members over twenty years after they first began playing together.