Ozric Tentacles - Tantric Obstacles CD/LP

"Much more than just a homage to those hippy bands of the 70's; they are actually doing for real what those bands gave the impression of being but never really were." NME

"Tantric Obstacles" was released in 1985 on cassette only following in the footsteps of their debut "Erpsongs". The album contains tracks that are still firm live favourites the energetic guitar space-rocker Sniffing Dog and the more complex Og-Ha-Be, which kicks off the album with the trademark Ozrics sound - a funky riff that gradually builds and recedes and builds again until it eventually explodes upon a scintillating pinnacle of space guitar. Music to Gargle At is almost an early version of the '91 "Strangeitude" single Sploosh!; with its water samples, electronic beats and plug hole noises.

Trees of Eternity is clearly influenced by Steve Hillage, whilst Oddhamshaw Style and Sorry Style date the tape with the kind of classic dub that could be heard drifting across the main drag of any festival site from a ramshackle sound system in the early part of the '80's.

"Tantric Obstacles" is a snapshot of the band at the height of the free festival era.

Tracklist:

1. Og-Ha-Be
2. Shards of Ice
3. Sniffing Dog
4. Music to Gargle At
5. Ethereal Cereal
6. Atmosphear
7. Ullular Gate
8. Tentacles of Erpmind
9. Trees of Eternity
10. Mescalito
11. Oddhamshaw Style
12. Become the Other
13. Gnuthlia
14. Sorry Style
15. The Aum Shuffle

About this product: this reissue is available on CD and LP formats.

The LP is pressed on black vinyl.