This more than one-hour-long album has eight tracks on it. First we’ve got the powerful, mid-tempo rock piece “Perpetual Motion” and this vividly reminds me of Magic Mushroom Band. This really great number ends with a two-minute-long, hallucinatory synth drone from deep space. ”Out of Sight, Out of Mind” begins in a pretty experimental style and after one minute the going somewhere in between hard rock and prog starts off. The old Census of Hallucinations number ”The Judas Kiss” includes lots of programmed, electronic stuff, but also male and female vocals and guitar. The ending gets quite weird… Another track with loads of programming is the bit dub spirited Don Campau composition “Down by the River”. The album’s longest track is Hendry’s instrumental ”Infinite Potentialities” that begins in an airy way with some bird-song and light keyboards. This is very ambient stuff although it also has some guitar. This piece could easily be from some old Astralasia album and it is in fact also included on the new Ohead disc. ”In The Image” is a song composed by Paddi and has lyrics by Jones and starts off with a minute-and-a-half of cosmic gurgle and then gets rocking a bit in the Gong style. The end is again tranquil, serene soundscapes. Tim Jones’ great, mid-paced “Why Are We Here?” begins with a psychedelic narration and after a minute the drums, rather heavy riff and vocals get going. The last couple of minutes are again more peaceful, floating stuff. Finally we get to hear some danceable electronic music that also includes vocals, and the hypnotic ”Give Us Back Our Heaven” (originally a Census of Hallucinations track) is a very fine ending for this album that is one of the best releases on Stone Premonitions ever. I can warmly recommend this to all those who like psychedelic music!
(DJ Astro, The Psychotropic Zone)
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